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The "weight" you feel at the hit is proportionate to how quickly you're accelerating the disc. Also proportionate to the disc's mass.
So even knowing the max speed (e.g. 80 mph) is not enough to calculate that force. You need to know how long it takes to get from 0 to 80 mph.
And even then, you're looking at an average over the acceleration period. Instantaneous forces will be higher at times.
...And also this is all in linear terms so far. Imparting spin on the disc involves more considerations.
Okay so that sounds like a very complex thing . Maybe too complex for anyone to actually calculate it on a case. So basically the faster you accelerate it, the heavier it becomes? And if I read correctly along the lines, its just much easier for amateurs to make a slower acceleration to not slip before the hit and keep it under control? The whole pondering started from a conversation with a friend who claims that his grip and core strenght is not enough to hold the disc longer. So basically trying to proove him wrong here. I know its more of a form/balance issue.
Plugging 85 mph into Einstein's relativistic formula for how mass increases as speed increases, you get an increase in mass of one 718,048,409,976th of a gram for a 175 gram disc.
Plugging 85 mph into Einstein's relativistic formula for how mass increases as speed increases, you get an increase in mass of one 718,048,409,976th of a gram for a 175 gram disc.
Do they not teach physics in school any more?
It is my experience that as a disc approaches the speed of light time slows down significantly. (this phenomenon only occurs with high speed drivers)
Do they not teach physics in school any more?
Okay so that sounds like a very complex thing . Maybe too complex for anyone to actually calculate it on a case.
A 175g disc is about .0098 newtons (from gravity).