Lawn tennis balls, Rolling friction experiment and Trouton viscosity
Abstract
We took three lawn tennis balls arbitrarily. One was moderately old, one was old and another was new. Fabricating a conveyor belt set-up we have measured rolling friction coefficients, , of the three balls as a function of their angular velocities, . In all the three cases, plotting the results and using linear fits, we have obtained relations of the form and have deduced the proportionality constant . Moreover, core of a lawn tennis ball is made of vulcanised India-rubber. Using the known values of Young modulus and shear viscosity of vulcanised India-rubbers in the theoretical formula for , we estimate s for the cores made of vulcanised India-rubbers, assuming Trouton ratio as three. The experimental results for the balls and the semi-theoretical estimates for the cores, of , are of the same order of magnitudes.
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@article{arxiv.0809.4823,
title = {Lawn tennis balls, Rolling friction experiment and Trouton viscosity},
author = {Ankit Singh and Devang Jain and Kaustubh Kulkarni and Abhishek Budhraja and K. R. Sai Tej and Satish Sankarlingam and Anindya Kumar Biswas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4823},
year = {2008}
}
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9 pages, 6 figures