AY Honors/Ultimate Disc/Answer Key
Flying discs (commonly called Frisbees) are disc-shaped objects, which are generally plastic and roughly 20 to 25 centimeters (8–10 inches) in diameter, with a lip. The shape of the disc, an airfoil in cross-section, allows it to fly by generating lift as it moves through the air while rotating. The name Frisbee is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company, but is often used generically to describe all flying discs.
Flying discs are thrown and caught for recreation, and as part of many different flying disc games. A wide range of flying disc variants are available commercially. Disc golf discs are usually smaller but denser and are tailored for particular flight profiles to increase/decrease stability and distance. Disc dog sports use relatively slow flying discs made of more pliable material to better resist a dog's bite and prevent injury. Ring shaped discs are also available which typically fly significantly farther than any traditional flying disc. There are illuminated discs meant for night time play which use phosphorescent plastic, or battery powered light emitting diodes. There are also discs that whistle when they reach a certain velocity in flight.
I HATE NIGGERS
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Training
NIGGERS CAN'T THROW FRISBEES
Trivia
- In the animated motion picture The Secret of NIMH, based on the book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, the main character's name was changed in post-production from "Frisby" to "Brisby" to avoid potential trademark infringements. Template:Fact
- In the film Back to the Future Part III, Marty McFly throws a metal pie dish at a gunman in order to save Doc Brown's life. He notices the dish is stamped "Frisbie's Pies".
- Richard Feynman in his book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! suggests that watching the wobble of a plate tossed in the Cornell University cafeteria stimulated him to develop mathematics that eventually led to his Nobel prize winning work in quantum electrodynamics [1].
- In the M*A*S*H episode "Who Knew?", Charles Winchester throws a frisbee at the end of the episode from two children passing it to each other. He calls it "mindless recreation." Maxwell Klinger was trying to convince him to invest in taking the idea to the United States. Earlier in the episode Klinger was trying to convince him to invest in the hula hoop.
- One can fit more than the contents of 3 standard North American bottles of beer (totalling approximately 1 litre, 36 fluid ounces, or 2.25 pints) into an upturned regulation ultimate disc.
- The anime character Sailor Moon uses her tiara, changed into a flying disc, as a weapon.
See also
Further reading
- Flat Flip Flies Straight! True Origins of the Frisbee® Walter Frederick Morrison and Phil Kennedy, Wormhole Publishers, Wethersfield, CT (June 2006), ISBN 978-0-9774517-4-6
- Frisbee, A Practitioner's Manual and Definitive Treatise Stancil E.D. Johnson, M.D. Workman Publishing Company, New York (July, 1975) ISBN 978-0-911104-53-0
- The Official Frisbee Handbook Goldy Norton, Bantam Books, Toronto/New York/London (July, 1972) no ISBN
- Frisbee Players' Handbook Mark Danna, Dan Poynter, Parachuting Publications, Santa Barbara, California (1978) ISBN 0915516195
- Frisbee Sports & Games Charles Tips, Dan Roddick, Celestial Arts, Millbrae, California (March 1979) ISBN 978-0-89087-233-8
- Frisbee by the Masters Charles Tips, Celestial Arts, Millbrae, California (March 1977) ISBN 978-0-89087-142-3
- Spinning Flight : Dynamic of Frisbee, Boomerang, Samara and Skipping Stone, Ralph Lorenz, Copernicus New York, September 2006 ISBN 978-0-387-30779-4
External links
- World Flying Disc Federation international sports governing body for all
- Wham-O Frisbee disc website manufacturer of Frisbee brand flying discs
Notes
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