Sometimes simple physics experiments reach extreme scales. For example, how hard can you hit a golf ball? And then a bit harder?
A golf ball. Image credit: Max Pixel, CC0 Public Domain
This question becomes more interesting when the experiment is not limited just by a human power. Just to make it easier to picture all this in your mind, we’ll provide a short explanation.
A golf ball has some elasticity; when it is hit by a club, it undergoes elastic deformation and then uses that stored energy to propel itself into opposite direction off the club. So what happens when the ball is deformed too much to return to its original shape?
The following video shows some amazing experimentation which you should not attempt to repeat yourself, due to safety reasons:
