Spinning Flight: Dynamics of Frisbees, Boomerangs, Samaras, and Skipping Stones

by Ralph Lorenz

More Frisbees are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs and footballs combined. Yet Frisbees have subtle and clever aerodynamic and gyrodynamic properties which are only recently being documented by wind tunnel and other studies. There are few books which discuss items like boomerangs and Frisbees and this is the first to give detailed technical discussion of these topics. In common with other rotating bodies discussed in this readily accessible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441921532
• ISBN13: 9781441921536
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 346 Pages