How many dimples are on a golf ball?

Question

How many dimples are on a golf ball?

Answer 1

All modern golf balls have their own proprietary dimple designs. So there is no definitive answer to that question. Although obviously there is a limit to the number of dimples you can fit on a golf ball. I think Wilson used to make a ball they marketed as having the most dimples on any ball....I think it was 492.

Answer 2

how many dimples are there on a golf ball

ibrahim (age 22)

university of benin

benin,edo,nigeria



A:

The number of dimples on a golf ball varies, depending on the manufacturer and may even be different for different models made by the same manufacturer. The dimples are usually the same size as one another, but some golf balls have several different sizes of dimple on the same ball. Any number between 300 and 500 dimples is reasonable, and 336 is a common number. Not just any number will do. Golf balls are usually covered with dimples in a spherically symmetrical way, and for many values of N, it is impossible to cover the golf ball uniformly without gaps. Symmetry is important or the ball will wobble or its flight will depend on which part of the ball is forwards or sideways as the ball spins. You can get an idea of how to space dimples uniformly around a sphere by thinking about the "platonic solids" -- the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron, and placing a dimple at the corners of an inscribed platonic solid. Variations on this theme give the corners of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, and also the possible symmetrical locations of dimples on a golf ball.



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Answer 3

357

Answer 4

same number as on Star Jone's thighs

Answer 5

7,000 dimples