I have just the cue for sale - it hits two tons now though. Tonflation.If your break cue hits a ton, pretty far.
I guess the more important question is, did you fall on your keyboard when you made this username?Brand new Simonis 860, no rails and whoever you think has the best/most powerful break... how long does the cue ball travel? I've asked this a few people around the pool halls and been given some wild answers... from 40 feet to 40 miles. What's your guess?
Are we ignoring gravity, which will make the ball drop once it get off the table at 1/2 g t^2? If we don't ignore gravity, then then when the ball clears the other end of the table, it will fall due to gravity. At 32 ft/s^2, the ball will hit the ground in about 0.4seconds. If the ball leaves the table at, say , 30 mph horizontally (the cueball slows down before ever getting to the end of the table), then that means the cueball travels about 17 ft or se before it hits the ground, ignoring air drag. If we don't ignore air drag, then you have to add the air drag force on a nice, non-stitched cueball, which decreases the 17'.Brand new Simonis 860, no rails and whoever you think has the best/most powerful break... how long does the cue ball travel? I've asked this a few people around the pool halls and been given some wild answers... from 40 feet to 40 miles. What's your guess?
2 X 1/2 way.
There, I finally beat Bob Jewett to a mathematical answer.
It seems we are safe from AI for a while when it comes to pool tables..... However, as a rough estimate, on a standard billiard table with a smooth, level surface, a cue ball struck at 25 mph might travel approximately 20 to 30 feet before coming to a stop, assuming no other balls are present on the table and there is no significant air resistance. This is just a rough estimate and actual distances may vary widely based on the specific conditions.
It seems we are safe from AI for a while when it comes to pool tables.
I just went to some online calculators and 30mph is 44ft/s and dropping something from 30 ft is 43.94ft/s so you are essentially correct.Let's assume 30MPH for the break -- a few players can reach that with some control.
Simonis has the equivalent friction of an uphill slope of 1 in 100 or maybe 1/120 on a brand new cloth. (This is easy to measure from tournament videos.)
A ball moving 30MPH has the speed of a ball dropped from a height of 30 feet, unless I slipped a decimal. Multiply that height by the slope factor of 100 to get 3000 feet. Or 3600 on brand new cloth.
This ignores wind resistance, so the test is best done in a vacuum.
Dumbass. No way!a gazillion
A mile on slate or ice(I didn’t read this thread yet)Brand new Simonis 860, no rails and whoever you think has the best/most powerful break... how long does the cue ball travel? I've asked this a few people around the pool halls and been given some wild answers... from 40 feet to 40 miles. What's your guess?
I wonder if one could catapult a cue ball from California to Japan across the Pacific Ocean given the right catapult. Also, I wonder if a Patriot Missile could shoot down that cue ball before it reaches Asia. These questions are at least as important as that in the original post.
Needless to say, I'm talking about a red circle cue ball here.
I just went to some online calculators and 30mph is 44ft/s and dropping something from 30 ft is 43.94ft/s so you are essentially correct.
I am quite shocked the answer is that large. 3000ft? I feel like if I hit a shot at break speed it will go back and forth maybe 4 (?) times the length of the table. It's a 9' table so 8 1/3' per cycle means 34 maybe even call it 40 ft total travel. Even if I only break at 20mph, that is the equivalent of dropping something from a height of about 14 ft. Mimicking your calculation, that implies the ball would roll 1400 ft? Do the rails really absorb so much energy that if they weren't there my break shot speed distance would go from 40ft to 1400 ft? That seems...implausible. But there are 4X (or even 5X) reductions in force so I can't say it isn't true.
There was a post (thread?) several years ago about somebody taking the rails off their table and whacking the CB out of their garage and along the driveway. I don't remember how far it traveled, and I can't find the post/thread now.
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A description of the experiment is in Byrne's Advanced Technique book. Byrne (his table and his garage), Shamos, Annigoni, Simon and Jewett were the experimenters. The balls -- including ivory -- landed on the driveway within a few yards of the end of the table.There was a post (thread?) several years ago about somebody taking the rails off their table and whacking the CB out of their garage and along the driveway. I don't remember how far it traveled, and I can't find the post/thread now.
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