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Everyone knows a stone bounces best on water if it’s round and flat, and spun towards the water as fast as possible. Some enthus
Everyone knows a stone bounces best on water if it’s round and flat, and spun towards the water as fast as possible. Some enthus
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2019-11-21
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Everyone knows a stone bounces best on water if it’s round and flat, and spun towards the water as fast as possible. Some enthusiasts even travel to international stone-skimming competitions, like world champion Jerdone Coleman-McGhee, who made a stone bounce 38 times on Blanco River, Texas, in 1992.
Intuitively, a flat stone works best because a relatively large part of its surface strikes the water, so there’s more bounce. Inspired by his eight-year-old son, physicist Lyderic Bocquet wanted to find out more. He tinkered with some simple equations describing a stone bouncing on water in terms of its radius, speed and spin, and taking account of gravity and the water’s drag.
The equations showed that the faster a spinning stone is travelling, the more times it will bounce. To bounce at least once without sinking, Bocquet found the stone needs to be travelling at a minimum speed of about 1 kilometre per hour.
The equations also backed his hunch(直觉)that spin is important because it keeps the stone fairly flat from one bounce to the next. The spin has a gyroscopic(陀螺的)effect, preventing the stone from tipping and falling sideways into the water.
To match the world record of 38 bounces using a 10-centimetre-wide stone, Bocquet predicts it would have to be travelling at about 40 kilometres per hour and spinning at 14 revolutions a second. He adds that drilling lots of small pits in the stone would probably help, by reducing water drag in the same way that dim pies on a golf ball reduce air drag.
Lyderic Bocquet drilled lots of small pits in the stone in order to______.
选项
A、make it look smarter
B、reduce the water drag
C、increase the revolution of the stone
D、make the game more like golf
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据最后一段最后一句“He adds that drilling lots of small pits in the stonewould probably help,by reducing water drag in the same way that dim pies on a golf ballreduce air drag.”可知,在石头上钻坑是为了减少空气阻力,故选B。
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