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Vibrations Analysis On Tennis Racket String, Jenny Blackburne
Vibrations Analysis On Tennis Racket String, Jenny Blackburne
The Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of this project was to investigate and analyse the vibration of a tennis racket string when a ball is hit. This was done using concepts of mechanical vibrations and modelled using Microsoft Excel. The displacement of the tennis string over time was graphed for two different positions on the racket and two different relative speeds of the tennis ball. It was found that the position of the tennis ball on the racket has very little effect on the displacement of the strings. If the ball or racket is moving faster when the ball is hit, then the displacement …