Drop shot 2

A "drop shot" in tennis is a shot that barely passes the net and touches the other side of the court close to the net. This makes it difficult for the opponent to reach the ball if the opponent starts running for the ball from the baseline. A drop shot also has a backspin that makes the ball bounce off the ground in a funny way so that the opponent will have an even harder time. In this problem, we will look at this second part: the backspin. (See this for the first part without a backspin.)

You've hit a ball with a really strong backspin. The ball touches the ground 0.9 m 0.9\text{ m} from the net on the opponent's side with a velocity of 6.9 m/s 6.9\text{ m/s} at an angle of 5 4 54^{\circ} with the ground. It still spins backward when it bounces up. The coefficient of friction is μ = 0.50 \mu=0.50 and the coefficient of restitution is e = 0.80 e=0.80 .

Where will the ball touch the ground again?

Details and Assumptions:

  • in a backspin, the bottom of the ball moves forward and the top of the ball moves backward, relative to the velocity of the center of the ball.
  • Neglect air resistance.
  • Use g = 10 m/s 2 g=10\text{ m/s}^2 .
  • The plane containing the trajectory of the ball is perpendicular to the net.
  • In a collision between a massive, horizontal, flat surface and a ball, the coefficient of restitution is defined as e = v y v y , e=\left|\dfrac{v_y'}{v_y}\right|, where v y v_y and v y v_y' are the vertical components of the velocity of the ball, before and after the collision, respectively.
Just at the bottom of the net About 0.5 m from the net It will drop back to the same place where it bounced up About 1.8 m from the net About 3.0 m from the net

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1 solution

Laszlo Mihaly
Sep 14, 2017

The velocity components of the ball after the collision are

v x = v x μ ( 1 + e ) v y = 1.0 m / s v_x'=v_x-\mu(1+e) v_y =-1.0m/s

v y = e v y = 4.5 m / s v_y'= e v_y=4.5m/s

The ball will bonce backwards, and it will move a distance of

x = 2 v x v y g = 0.87 m x= 2\frac{v_x'v_y'}{g}= -0.87m

therefore it will reach the ground at the bottom of the net.

Notes

  1. Federer is a master of hitting these kind of drop shots.
  2. Neglecting air resistance is not quite right, primarily because the strong spin causes the ball to take an orbit that can be different from a parabolic orbit. This is even more pronounce in table tennis, where the orbit of a ball with a strong back spin can curve upwards for a while.

I did the the same way ! Very good problem involving physics in our real life.

Ayon Ghosh - 3 years, 8 months ago

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