That would be my lab group, "The Masters of Physics," anyways, thats what doc calls us. Anyhoo, I was watching The Masters golf tournament, and this commercial came up about Phil Mickleson and all these kids, and he said some thing like "these kids are gonna be engineers, and they gots to use math, like I use math on the golf course, so donate to my ofundation to teach kids better math." I was like, waitasec, math? On the golf course? And the I remembered projectile motion, friction, momentum, collisions, all that stuff we forgot about months ago. First of all, the driver has a lot of torc\que because of the circular swing, and it produces a lot of force. Then, through a collision, that force is transfered to the ball. The ball will land somewhere, for me it usually lands in the hole, but for those less skilled people it will landon the fairway. But it will bounce because of all that momentum and what not. When people get to this thing called a green (as I said before, I ace it all the time), they have to get this putter thing and put it. That is where friction with the green comes in and they have to compensate by hiting it harder or slower. Anyways, talking about all this golf makes me want to go to Makalena's, but that's in Waipahu and I don't feel like getting mugged today...go heat?
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