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Book Synopsis
Discusses the science behind American football, soccer, cycling, swimming, diving, long jumping, and a host of other competitive sports. This book explains the basic physical properties involved in amazing and everyday athletic endeavors.

Trade Review
Goff... is more than comfortable analyzing a variety of feats of physical prowess... Sports fans with a knowledge of geometry and trigonometry will enjoy Goff's cheerful revisiting of memorable athletic events. Publishers Weekly 2009 A lively, pleasant read with plenty of real physics and mathematical details. American Journal of Physics 2010 Sports libraries will find this engrossing. Midwest Book Review 2010

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Pre-Game Show
2. It's Not Over Until the Trombone Player Goes Down: Vectors and How to Think Like a Physicist
3. All Hail Flutie: Gravity and Projectiles
4. Vive le Lance: Simplifying the Complicated
5. A Leap into the Unknown: More Projectiles and Angular Momentum
6. Amazing Spins in and around All Kinds of Water: Rotations in Water Sports
7. Soccer Kicks Gone Bananas: Off-Center Kicking and the Magnus Force
8. Four Olympics and Four Straight Gold Medals: Centripetal Motion and Lift
9. It Takes More Than a Big Gut: Caloric Consumption and Linear Momentum
10. The Post-Game Show
Further Reading
Index

Gold Medal Physics The Science of Sports

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      Book details

      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 February 2010
      ISBN-13 9780801893216
      978-0801893216
      ISBN-10 0801893216
      Also in:
      Sport science, physical education

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Discusses the science behind American football, soccer, cycling, swimming, diving, long jumping, and a host of other competitive sports. This book explains the basic physical properties involved in amazing and everyday athletic endeavors.

      Trade Review
      Goff... is more than comfortable analyzing a variety of feats of physical prowess... Sports fans with a knowledge of geometry and trigonometry will enjoy Goff's cheerful revisiting of memorable athletic events. Publishers Weekly 2009 A lively, pleasant read with plenty of real physics and mathematical details. American Journal of Physics 2010 Sports libraries will find this engrossing. Midwest Book Review 2010

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. The Pre-Game Show
      2. It's Not Over Until the Trombone Player Goes Down: Vectors and How to Think Like a Physicist
      3. All Hail Flutie: Gravity and Projectiles
      4. Vive le Lance: Simplifying the Complicated
      5. A Leap into the Unknown: More Projectiles and Angular Momentum
      6. Amazing Spins in and around All Kinds of Water: Rotations in Water Sports
      7. Soccer Kicks Gone Bananas: Off-Center Kicking and the Magnus Force
      8. Four Olympics and Four Straight Gold Medals: Centripetal Motion and Lift
      9. It Takes More Than a Big Gut: Caloric Consumption and Linear Momentum
      10. The Post-Game Show
      Further Reading
      Index

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