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A Closer Look at String Tension

Most tennis players choose a tennis racquet with great care, but many don't realize that their racquet's stringing may have a more profound effect on their game than their carefully chosen frame.

At a minimum, every tennis player should understand the basic trade-offs between power and control in relation to string tension. Any decent tennis racquet will have a recommended range of string tensions, for example 58 to 68 pounds. When we talk about low or high tension, it makes sense to confine ourselves within this range, because at extremes below this range, some of the normal correlations break down.

Within the recommended tension range, lower tensions offer slightly more power and significantly less stress on the arm, and higher tensions offer significantly more control and slightly better spin.

Looser strings hit farther in part because the ball stays on the strings longer, and because on most swings the racquet tilts upward and rises as it moves forward, a ball that stays on the strings longer leaves the racquet on a higher trajectory. The key to understanding the other reason that lower string tensions yield more power is to compare the energy return offered by the strings to that offered by the ball.

If you read the official rules of tennis, you'll find a section that specifies that the ball, when dropped on concrete from 100 inches, shall rebound to between 53 and 58 inches. In any collision, some energy is lost to vibration and friction, and in the case of a tennis ball, a huge amount is lost in deforming the ball's materials. As the ball hits the concrete, part of it compresses, and the rubber stores some of that energy, which is then released as the ball uncompresses. If all of that energy were stored with perfect efficiency, the ball would bounce right back to 100 inches, but as a tennis ball is designed, it dissipates around 45% of that energy. A "Superball" is better at storing its compression energy, and it will bounce back much higher when dropped from the same height, but a ball that could bounce back to 100% of its original height is still a physical impossibility, even in a vacuum. If such a ball were possible, it would bounce forever.

1/16/2013 被66機車行框了

今天去新店寶橋路的66機車行換輪胎，本來是想去公館的大佳機車行換，結果突然下雨，只好就近換。一條瑪吉斯的M-6029報NT$1600，另一條說是正新的(型號不知，應該是光陽原廠胎)報價NT$1400，雖然知道有被貴到，但是想說給老闆賺一點，很久沒來交關了。沒想到上露天一查，M-6029裝到好1300，正新的好像1000左右，摃盤子啊！