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Finn Cohen
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Curving rocks
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i'm wondering if anyones noticed the tendency for rocks to curve when you throw them. particularly Flat rocks when you throw a balearic type throw. i Kind of want to learn how to do this bu
t i'm not having much luck.
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Re: Curving rocks
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I could be wrong. But I think :
1) All peebles revolve around their center of gravity.
2) For all peebles, the path of the center of gravity is right.
And more,
3) A flat peeble behaves like a fin in the air.
4) Aerodynamic peeble behaves like a football (non-amecican) ball with a drived path (Magnus effect).
just my idea.
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Yes, as long as the rocks are spinning they will always curve. Backspin makes them curve up; frontspin that you get from an underarm throw makes them curve down. Anything other than a perfect front or backspin and they'll curve to the left or right.
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This video from IronGoober is definitely worth checking out:
https://youtu.be/ESrvvBFcrWM
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I don't know if it's entirely applicable because he's slinging a ball, not a flat stone. But it might introduce some ideas to you.
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Any spinning object in flight can experience the Magnus effect. For a flat rock, this effect may be very small. Instead, the curving you are seeing is a result of drag. The stone is taking the path of least resistance. While it is tumbling in flight, that direction changes.
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The rounder, the heavier your projectile is, the less the magnus effect will pull it off target. Most important thing is putting rifle-spin onto the projectile if you want to hit things past 30m.
Flat stones curve a lot to the right when you throw them at medium range, but they also release a bit later than rounded ones, so to hit the target, you have to be aware they can cancel each other out to some extent.
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joe_meadmaker wrote
on Jun 10
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This video from IronGoober is definitely worth checking out:
https://youtu.be/ESrvvBFcrWM
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Very good video, Irongoober. Clear and educational.
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If you want to curve rocks choose a less dense rock. Limestone with lots of internal cavities will curve heavily
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TOMBELAINE wrote
on Jun 13
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joe_meadmaker wrote
on Jun 10
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This video from IronGoober is definitely worth checking out:
https://youtu.be/ESrvvBFcrWM
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Very good video, Irongoober. Clear and educational.
Thanks
Thanks!
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Flat, pointy trapezoid rocks will not only bend but actually corkscrew through the air.
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I love a good cork screw throw. Not very accurate, but very fun to watch
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I love a good cork screw throw. Not very accurate, but very fun to watch
Yeah absolutely. I imagine it would be really hard to dodge too if was coming straight at you. I've seen handgun bullets very visibly do the same thing, which I found rather surprising. I'd like to exactly why it happens sometimes, and why it doesn't other times.
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I think it has to do with a precession of the spin axis. Gyroscopes precess, and I would assume a sling bullet/rock would as well, especially given the forces/torques applied to it as it flies through the air (which will speed up the precession).
It is like a spinning top starting to wobble. I think that is the effect that causes the corkscrew. The precession of the spin axis causes different Magnus force directions/magnitudes so the stone curves, but continuously changing direction.
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It’s definitely to do with the Magnus effect and aerodynamics. The precession might magnify the effect even more.
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