Interesting Fact:

The Chilean earthquake tipped the Earth's axis by 3 inches and as a result shortened the length of our days by 1.26 microseconds! Hard to imagine.

Science of the Olympic Winter Games

This a collaboration between NBC and the National Science Foundation to show how science helps athletes fulfill the Olympic motto: "Citius, Altius, Fortius" — Swifter, Higher, Stronger. I think it would be very helpful to most of you to watch not only your sport but other sports as well as your consider the physics principles apparent in your sport.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/olympics/

Did you like it? Comment about what you thought or which one was your favorite....

So the Olympics are fully underway and so is your project! I hope that your conference went well and that you left both feeling confident and with questions to be answered. I look forward to seeing your final product with the physics of your sport explained and quantified.

Yes, quantified, I want you to be able to explain the physics and what it should mean and also to be able to back up your theories of how the sport works with formal calculations.

I love the Olympics and love everything about it but you may not want to ask me all of your questions. You may find that my excitement leads to more work for you; you may find it better to ask your friends, but you may not have the time....

That is where I am hoping that this blog can help! Many of your sports include many of the same principles and concepts in many of the same ways. Many of you have been better at different concepts that the few that dominate your sport. The Laws that govern motion and energy encompass ALL motion and energy!

So I encourage you to visit the site as I post things commenting on things discussed in class or on televsion. And I encourage you to post things, comments, questions that may arise for you as you move forward with your project. This should be a fun and exciting project, embrace it and it will be!

Welcome