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Putt with break and friction

A golf ball is putted on a green.  A top view is shown in the animation (position is given in meters and time is given in seconds).   Restart.

Due to break and friction, the ball travels as shown in the animation.

Physlet authored by Aaron Titus with support by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-9952323 and placed in the public domain. It can also be found in the book Physlet Physics by Wolgang Christian and Mario Belloni.

are scriptable Java Applets written by Wolfgang Christian of Davison College.