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Physics of Winter Sports
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G-force experienced by a bobsledder is determined by the rate of change in velocity rather than the absolute speed.
“the g-forces you feel have nothing to do with how fast you're moving oh they have to do with how fast your velocity is changing”
StarTalk · Feb 2022 · 1 episode · 78K views on this topic
The mechanics of surfaces contacting ice, such as in skiing or curling, are complex and not fully understood by science.
“we talk very glibly about ice melting and pushing and things like that but actually the surface physics the connections between surfaces of ice and curling or skis or anything like that is still rather poorly understood a lot of it is still under experimentation today at the highest levels”
StarTalk · Feb 2022 · 1 episode · 78K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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