Mathematics and the Bounce of the Superball - Professor John D. Barrow
4,244 views · Published 24 August 2011 · 1:01:22 · Indexed 20 October 2026
Channel: Gresham College · 2011 · Education
The commercially available 'Superball' of hard rough rubber displays many counterintuitive properties which seem to violate Newton's laws of motion. We will see that the Superball can be understood but its behaviour is completely different to a billiard ball when it undergoes collisions with a wall. We will look also at some other unusual motions of swerving and spinning balls in sports. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-bounce-of-the-superball Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. http://www.gresham.ac.uk
More from this channel
-
2:10
Sir Arthur Bliss - Piano Quartet in A - Intermezzo: Tempo di
-
6:25
Convenient Approximations (Movement 1)
-
3:44
Convenient Approximations (Movements 2-6)
-
4:20
A Millennium of Mathematical Puzzles - Introduction
-
2:27
Sudoku Problems
-
1:23
Tilings
-
5:58
Does other life exist in the Universe? (Part 1)
-
3:47
The Fall of the Third Reich - 8 - The disintegration of the army and of civil order