Pool

Okay, I totally forgot about my physics blog until right now... Anyways a couple weeks back my family went to Hawaiian Brians for a winter break celebration. In case you don't know, Hawaiian Brians is a billiard hall by the Hawaii Convention Center. I also have a pool table in my basement so I thought I'd write about pool. A while back we studied collisions, remember? Anyways, there are two kinds of collisions, ellastic, and inellastic. Billiards deals with a bunch of ellastic collisions, as the balls bounce all over the place and collide with each other. If a ball hits a ball straight on, as we learned, they will move in a linear path. But if the ball hit the side, one will deflect 90 degrees from the other. An inellastic collision might happen if the ball is spinning or sticks, but doesn't happen in pool most of the time. This reminds me of an episode of Drake&Josh, yeah, where Josh played pool super good since he used physics or something. When I first saw that episode I thought he was a fat nerd who got lucky at pool, but now I see that that fat nerd is me, only I'm not as good at physics. Whatever, pool is lame anyways, ping pong is for real winners.