Newton on the Tee

A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf

John Zumerchik (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2008
Simon & Schuster (Verlag)
978-1-4165-4129-5 (ISBN)

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Your guide to the science of golf in the era of "Tiger-proofing." This accessible overview of the game covers everything from the physics of the swing, and the physiology of muscle memory to the aerodynamics of ball-flight, and the probability of a hole-in-one.

Golf has undergone a titanium revolution: new materials, new techniques, and new approaches have radically reshaped the simple act of swatting a little ball towards a distant target. The endlessly inquisitive golfer-which is to say, all of them-has had nowhere to turn to get any sense of WHY their shots go slicing into the distance, WHY they should care about the properties of titanium, WHY putts tend to break to the west, WHY swinging harder doesn't necessarily make the ball go further, and WHY they can hit the ball like a dream one day and like an orang-utan the next.

At last, John Zumerchik, a passionate golfer and inquisitive science writer and editor, explores and explains the little details that make golf such a maddening, fascinating, and tantalizing pursuit. NEWTON ON THE TEE covers all of the game's hot topics.

With a firm grasp of both his subject and his seven-iron, Zumerchik takes the reader through all these topics and more, in an entertaining and enlightening work that crosses the questing appeal of Golf in the Kingdom with the coherence and clarity of popular science works from Cosmos to Chaos.

John Zumerchik has had a varied career as an editor/writer. He was an editor for the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Sports Science (1997), a two-volume reference work covering the physiology and physics of sports as well as the physics of sports injuries. (Though listed as editor, he authored or rewrote over half the entries.) He is also serving the dual role of author/editor for the three-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy. He previously served as a Senior Editor of the American Institute of Physics, and as a Physics, Forestry and Geology Editor for the College Division of McGraw-Hill. He lives in New York.

Contents

Preface

1

How Easy Is this Game Anyway?

2

The Physics of a Sweet Swing

3

Mind over Muscle: Motor Control and Mastering the Mental Game

4

Getting the Ball from Here to There

5

Clubs and Balls: Does It Matter What?s in the Bag?

6

Injuries and Aging: The Physics and Physiology Behind the Decline in Our Play

7

Probability and Statistics

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Reihe/Serie	Gift for Golfers
Zusatzinfo	6 b&w illustrations t-o
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	275 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Golf
ISBN-10	1-4165-4129-2 / 1416541292
ISBN-13	978-1-4165-4129-5 / 9781416541295
Zustand	Neuware