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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1993
Stanley H Johnson, Bethlehem, PA (US);
U.S. Golf Association, Far Hills, NJ (US);
Abstract
The experimental determination of the moments of inertia of a rigid body such as a golf-club head about each of three mutually perpendicular axes is described. The club head is suspended so as to swing as a pendulum about an axis that is parallel to each of the axes of interest and the moments of inertia are calculated from the periods of oscillation and physical properties of the body. The products of inertia must be calculated from the moments of inertia in multiple axis systems. Once the inertia matrix is complete, the associated ellipsoid of inertia displays the inertial properties of the rigid body without reference to a specific coordinate system. The inertia ellipsoids of two golf-club heads are determined and compared to demonstrate the procedure.