A Mistake 99% Badminton Stores Are Making

[Pete LSD]

There is certainly potential energy with the person placing his weight on the table. If the person's feet slipped and fell (PK his/her face on the table), the drop in height is the change in potential energy translated into kinetic energy. Ouuuccchhhh, what a painful way to experiment with Newtonian mechanics .

[Pete LSD]

Yes and the Earth's mass is just overwhelmingly huge .

i believe in a newtonian world, both reference objects of mass are attracting to each other. ie, the racket mass is pulling onto earth's mass too.

[cooler]

There is certainly potential energy with the person placing his weight on the table. If the person's feet slipped and fell (PK his/her face on the table), the drop in height is the change in potential energy translated into kinetic energy. Ouuuccchhhh, what a painful way to experiment with Newtonian mechanics .

that is why it is better and simplier to express the racket in gram, not in newton.

[Tsumaranai]

i believe in a newtonian world, both reference objects of mass are attracting to each other. ie, the racket mass is pulling onto earth's mass too.

Then'd we'd have to consider the gravitational pull of the sun, as well. What messy business!

[cooler]

Yes and the Earth's mass is just overwhelmingly huge .

it takes minimum of 2 to tangles in the context of attraction

[Pete LSD]

Now, don't jump into relativity where the gravity of an object warps space and time around it.

i believe in a newtonian world, both reference objects of mass are attracting to each other. ie, the racket mass is pulling onto earth's mass too.

[Pete LSD]

It is a messy business if one were to travel to Mars or other planets within our solar system. Okay, we are off topic. Let's discuss this in Chit Chat.

Then'd we'd have to consider the gravitational pull of the sun, as well. What messy business!

[cooler]

Then'd we'd have to consider the gravitational pull of the sun, as well. What messy business!

again, that is why expression in newton is vague, it changes constantly even if the racket is not moving

[Fidget]

Now, don't jump into relativity where the gravity of an object warps space and time around it.

Yikes! This is geekily turning into a Star Trek convention.
Beam me out of here, Scotty!

[cooler]

Now, don't jump into relativity where the gravity of an object warps space and time around it.

no gravity can warp space and time like your mind pete

[Pete LSD]

Let's discuss Newtonian mechanics here: http://www.badmintoncentral.com/foru...527#post844527

[wocdam]

another point to ponder. since every racket has a different CG (centre of gravity), how is it possible for the racket to be measured to the accuracy of 0.1grams? electronic balance will give a difference of 0.3grams when the racket is placed at different positions on the balance. unless they hang the racket from the tip and weigh them, then it may not be so accurate after all.

[Tsumaranai]

Well, now we can just simply say that the range for the mass is because of the slightly varying amount of material in each racket that they can't control to the nearest .1 grams.

[magiadam]

Mass does NOT equal Weight -___-

Mass is expressed in Kilograms or Grams.
Weight is expressed in Newtons.

Get your units right >__>

[Tsumaranai]

Who exactly are you referring to?

[magiadam]

Who exactly are you referring to?

Anybody who claims Weight is expressed in KiloGrams or Grams.

[kwun]

racket should be expressed in mass. the reason is simple. not only are we interested in how heavy the racket weighs on a scale, whose weight we can calculate by f=ma, we are also interested in how much force we need to accelerate the racket, which is more accurately expressed in mass, also due to f=ma.

so in other words, 99% of the stores out there are giving us the correct units, but not the correct label.