Fred's Fun Fact: Golf Balls!

Find out how many dimples are in a golf ball!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, Fread's fun Fact. Fred's fund so much. Alright, let's
learn so much. So it turns out that most golf
balls have this same number of dimples, like all of
them because I guess they've all got to be the

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same size round like circumference, and so because the little
dimples are all proportionate, then there is a common number
of dimples. What would you guess the number of dimples
on a golf ball?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
A thousand, three hundred and thirty six.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Three hundred and thirty six dimples. Yeah, you were, you were, Yeah,
you were within seven hundred. Yeah. But if you take
note of the specifics, you might discover that your golf
balls can have anywhere between three hundred and five hundred dimples.
They'll most tend to have three hundred and thirty six.
This is according to the Department of Physics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne. It says that golf

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balls are usually covered with dimples and in a highly
symmetrical way, and the reason that they have the dimples
is because the ball will wobble without them. So there's
two fun facts, and there's a part one and a
Part two. The difference between that and Kiki's blog is

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that they're connected, so

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Just for the recre Pres show next