When Lord Rayleigh wrote his paper “On the Irregular Flight of a Tennis Ball” (Messenger of Mathematics, volume 7, page 14, 1877) and J. J. Thomson wrote “The Dynamics of a Golf Ball” (Nature, volume 85, page 2147, 1910), were they trying to make physics relevant so as to increase the attendance in an introductory course they were teaching?
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