Natural philosopher Isaac Newton realised that forces were important in sport, and said as much in a letter to Henry Oldenburg, the secretary of the Royal Society in 1671. Newton's three laws of motion are still the basis for modern sporting analysis. Using them, physicist Howard Brody at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia pioneered studies of the interaction between a tennis racket and a ball. He found that the best racket designs optimise three parameters.
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