Connect Online Access for Physics of Sports

I Primary Chapters

1 Warm-up: Basic concepts

1.1 Quantifying the World of Sports

1.2 When We Don't Have Exact Numbers

1.3 The Center of Mass

2 Racing, Mathematically

2.1 Phelps in Beijing

2.2 Bolt in Berlin

2.3 Rope-Climbing and Diving

3 Net Force: Dwight Howard illustrates

3.1 How Things Interact: Forces

3.2 The Physics of a Dwight Howard Dunk

3.3 Sideways Traction

3.4 More-Complex Situations

3.5 "Imaginary Forces" in Sports

4 Punts, the Fosbury Flop, and Other Projectile Motions

4.1 The Math: Simpler Than You Think

4.2 Football Punt: Range, Hang Time, and Compromise


4.3 Shot-Put


4.4 Human Projectiles

5 Curveballs, Foul Shots, and Bent Kicks

5.1 Overview

5.2 Immersion in Fluid: Buoyancy


5.3 Moving Through Fluid Drag


5.4 Sideward Forces from Asymmetries


5.5 Aerodynamic Forces, One at a Time


5.6 More Complicated Aerodynamics in Sports


5.7 Not All Air Is Created Equal

6 Game Changers: Collisions in Sports

6.1 What a Collision Is and How to Think About It

6.2 The Physics of a Football Tackle


6.3 Gentler Pursuits: Bowling


6.4 A Happy Medium: Dribbling and Driving


6.5 Off-Center Hits: Spinning the Ball

7 Energy in Sports: Bursts of Power

7.1 Bouncing Basketball: The Whole Process

7.2 Efficiency


7.3 The Athlete: The Energetic Starting Point


7.4 Keeping Score: Energy Accounting in Sports


7.5 Uncle Rico's Hopes Dashed


7.6 Behdad Salimikordsiabi's Clean and Jerk

8 Energy and Timing in Elastic Equipment

8.1 The Physics of Archery I: Energy Storage and Transfer

8.2 The Physics of Archery II: Fire Power


8.3 The Physics of Archery III: Archer's Paradox


8.4 Zdeno Chara's Slap Shot: Fast Storage, Faster Release


8.5 Bungee-Jumping Brides and Quadratic Equations

9 The Physics of Cycling

9.1 Input to the Bike: Sustained Human Power

9.2 Power Output


9.3 Talansky Drives the Bike

10 Twisting Athletes in Flight

10.1 Human Rotation

10.2 Backward Giant Circle


10.3 Figure Skating: Spinning on Ice


10.4 Rotational Action and Reaction

II Supplementary Chapters

11 Lines of Action on the Line of Scrimmage: The Torque Wars

12 A Barry Bonds Home Run

12.1 Ball-Bat Collision: Speeds, Impulse, Force

12.2 Batted Ball Speed


12.3 Focus on the Bat

13 The Pole Vault

13.1 Origins

14 Is It Better to Run through First Base or to Dive?

14.1 The Story according to Sport Science

14.2 Too Close to Call


14.3 Diving Speed


14.4 What's Really Happening: Torque and Impulse


14.5 Other Issues


14.6 Concluding Remarks

A Unit Conversions

B Tables pf Relevant Physical Properties

Further Reading

Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems

Index

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