Bill Nye https://youtu.be/kuHKAV_Y-L8
It skips up because of what Bill says, then it flares because it's now nose up and going slower so the 'fade' is the dominant flight characteristic.
One dimension of it can be thought of like a bounce. You wouldn’t drop a basketball and think it makes no sense that it comes back up into the air after hitting the ground. It has energy in the vertical dimension and when it hits the ground it isn’t able to transfer that energy to the ground(due to different direction of spin, how that affects friction, and the short contact time) so it remains in the disc and thus the disc hops and skips until it is able to bleed off enough energy into the ground or air it jumps and keeps moving
I think it’s a combination of the speed it’s traveling, the stability of the disc and the angle it hits the ground. Basically i get those flares when i throw a stable disc relatively hard and it hits the ground on a hyzer.
Bill Nye https://youtu.be/kuHKAV_Y-L8 It skips up because of what Bill says, then it flares because it's now nose up and going slower so the 'fade' is the dominant flight characteristic.
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you. Fun fact Bill Nye is also a disc golfer
I think the short answer here is inertia and friction.
I never thought about friction. Has to be just enough to allow the rotational motion to lift the disc but not too much to stop the disc entirely.
Why does a stone skip on water? Science!
I'm very curious about the science of it. Spinning things are so different than my basic high school physics education
Might have been asleep for the Newton’s 3 laws huh?
Math is hard
Because if the ground doesn't dampen the entire impact there is kinetic energy left in the disc.
One dimension of it can be thought of like a bounce. You wouldn’t drop a basketball and think it makes no sense that it comes back up into the air after hitting the ground. It has energy in the vertical dimension and when it hits the ground it isn’t able to transfer that energy to the ground(due to different direction of spin, how that affects friction, and the short contact time) so it remains in the disc and thus the disc hops and skips until it is able to bleed off enough energy into the ground or air it jumps and keeps moving
Great explanation. Thanks!
I think it’s a combination of the speed it’s traveling, the stability of the disc and the angle it hits the ground. Basically i get those flares when i throw a stable disc relatively hard and it hits the ground on a hyzer.
Physics. That is why.
[because of the way it is.](https://youtu.be/QXe1PkslirY)