Thump, ring: the sound of a bouncing ball
arXiv:0808.3278
Abstract
A basketball bounced on a stiff surface produces a characteristic loud thump, followed by high-pitched ringing. Describing the ball as an inextensible but flexible membrane containing compressed air, I formulate an approximate theory of the generation of these sounds and predict their amplitudes and waveforms.
9 pp., 2 figs. New figure