Tennis Kinematics Transient Analysis: A Ball Spin & Racket Collision Description by Miltiadis A. Boboulos - HTML preview

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S1 = −S2 = −() ()m .m v1v2 . m1 + m2

7.2.3 Kinetic energy loss for direct collision

The kinetic energy loss during a direct collision is important to be estimated in the cases when it is necessary to make a model of the actual collision between the ball and the tennis racket, because in actual conditions the latter is not stationary [22]. This can be determined using the following expression:

m

 

1

 

u
2m2u2m1v2m2v2
Δ

 

E
k

 

=
E

 

k
1

 


E

 

k
0

 

=

 

1 2 1 2

 

2+222 (Eq. 11) this after being transformed becomes as follows:

 

Δ

 

E
k

 

=