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Wednesday 15th September
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Peter J. Brancasio "The Physics of
Basketball" in "The Physics of Sports" by Angelo Armenti, Jr. (pps. 86-95;
emphasize section III).
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Wednesday 22nd September
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Peter Brancazio's -"Chapman's Homer"
in "The Physics of Sports" by Angelo Armenti, Jr. (pps. 40-42 only). You
may want to look at the Erlichson golf article (page 71) and the Lichtenberg
and Wills shot put article (page 99) both of which deal with the same subject.
Try writing a program to compute a trajectory with air drag. Here's a
sample.
Here are results from that program,
reproducing Brancazio's figure 4.
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Wednesday 29th September
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Belleman's "Power demand in walking
and pace optimization" in "The Physics of Sports" by Angelo Armenti, Jr.
pps. 117-119.
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Wednesday 6th October
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2 papers! Brody's "Physics of the
tennis raquet," in "The Physics of Sports" by Angelo Armenti, Jr. pps.
141-146 and "Physics of the tennis racket II: The `sweet spot'", pps. 147-150
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Wednesday 13th October
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"Field trip" to the boathouse to measure
your power output on a Concept II ergometer.
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Wednesday 20th October
"Rowing: a similarity analysis"
by T. McMahon in "The Physics of Sports" by Angelo Armenti, Jr. pps. 295-296.
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