You can't bounce a ball under a table

Summary by Krater

Steve Mould explores the physics of the golf ball paradox, demonstrating how a ball bouncing under a table can be understood by breaking down a cylinder into a series of flat faces.

From the video

Answers: Why does a ball bouncing under a table come out the same way it went in?

• golf ball paradox
• physics of bouncing balls
• angular momentum and linear momentum
• discretizing curved surfaces into flat faces
• orbital mechanics and Kepler's equal area law
• data brokers and online privacy

What it concludes

• As the number of faces of a polygonal container approaches infinity, the golf ball paradox can be understood through the continuous change in the spin axis of the ball.
• Data brokers pose hidden privacy risks by selling personal information to marketing agencies, but services like Incogni can help remove user data from such databases.