The flight of a shuttlecock?

i no it moves under projectile motion but does anyone know an equation for it, to figure out the inital velocity it moves at, when its not starting at the place it lands...also there is air resistance!


or help on anything about shuttlecocks and there flight path would help


thanksxx|||Badminton is as popular as lawn tennis (when ‘popular’ is defined by the number of adults who play the game). Indeed, the origin of the game, played with a feather shuttlecock, in the mid-19th century is said to predate lawn tennis. The invention of the cheaper, more durable synthetic shuttlecock in the 1950s gave the game a wider appeal. Yet, manufacturers have still to produce a synthetic shuttlecock that exactly mirrors the flight of the feather shuttlecock during the game of badminton, a goal they have striving to reach for over 40 years.





This paper describes experiments which were devised to understand the flow regime around a shuttlecock and to accurately determine a data set of aerodynamic coefficients for selected feather and synthetic shuttlecocks. The drag, lift and pitching moment coefficients were measured for a range of Reynolds Numbers (based on maximum skirt diameter) selected to cover most velocities reached in a badminton game; 13 000 %26lt; Re %26lt; 190 000 (3 to 44 m s–1). The results form part of a wider programme of research which examined the differences between feather and synthetic shuttlecocks and ultimately led to a new product.|||do you have any data values for this?


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