Alternative post alert… Mindsponge is an educational web-series on YouTube.  The goal of the series is to find the science, history, stories, and reasons behind questions that a lot of people have asked before, but that most people don’t know the answers to.  You may be wondering why I am writing about this on a tennis blog.  Well, they recently looked at the question, why are tennis balls fuzzy? Enjoy…

If you enjoyed this, you can find more videos on the Mindsponge YouTube page HERE

If you’re interested in the physics of tennis, there have been some excellent posts on the Fog Mountain Tennis blog.  This post HERE which focuses on court speed is a fascinating read.