How Can You Use Math To Take Your Pool Game Up A Notch?

[Omoutreachtim]

How is math used in the pool?

[calmck]

Count the lengths you swim

[dannyk13]

You can't use math in the game of pool.It's all a matter of judging the angle needed to pot the ball.

[aelmpvw]

i never know whether we're talking about swimming or potting balls

[Tuvok]

mathS

math is American

[AZardoz]

^^
Why does that freak out the Brits ? Yeah, big time.

[Prudie]

You definitely can use maths - it's all about angles and triangle geometry (plus a fair bit of physics/mechanics for force, speed and spin).

[Peter Pedant]

// You can't use math in the game of pool.It's all a matter of judging the angle needed to pot the ball.//

You can use math in the game of pool. It's all a matter of judging the angle needed to pot the ball and this can be translated into applied maff ( A level, final y high school)

Use Newton's law of elastic colllison and you can build in a friction factor,
same for bounces

and some maff prof came up with a fan of angles - the outsides being unlikely, the bisector being most likely

no pool player I know uses it

spinning a barl can be estimated but makes it much more complex.

Catching a cricket ball has been analysed: the catchers estimate the angular acceleration of the barl as it comes
which explains why I cdnt catch anything
( yes thetter double dot in case anyone is reading)

[Peter Pedant]

yup Prood

[dannyk13]

PP,//
You can use math in the game of pool.//
So before every shot you get your calculator out? .As I said you can't use math/s in a gamde of pool.

[Peter Pedant]

1) I dont play pool
2) fatty barrett ( now aged around 95 ) lives !
3) I did say I dont know of any pool player who does - but hey dont read my posts before yeaarting
4) you have confused dont and cant

other than that I think your answer is worffa BA

[aelmpvw]

snooker player Alan Mcmanus is nicknames 'angles' . . .

[Peter Pedant]

yeah but no but that was they said because he had a big
angle of dangle

he does say - in the pool
the only bit I know is - decreasing drag ( dont swim in a bikini ter daah) by shaving ( ugh) and caps
and having less body in the water ( as Mark Spitz did) will decrease drag.

adam peaty clearly goes for power/weight ratio

turning - under water has more drag than flooshing
BUT all the athletes have always done a dive for a s long as poss