On August 11 the world lost Howard Brody, a physics professor who worked at the University of Pennsylvania. He died at the age of 83 and left behind a series of findings that made him known as “the world’s foremost physicist of tennis,” as said by Margalit Fox in her NY Times article. Howard focused his professional work on particle physics until the size of a tennis racket caused him to investigate the sport even further. He was specifically curious about how the tennis ball would hit the racket’s percussion center, which would create “a torque-free still point” (Fox). After recently learning the meaning of torque in physics class I was able to understand that this meant if the ball hit at a specific spot there would be a very small amount
