Re: The Olympics

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

J.M.C.!

".... tweaked his nose."?

Initially I thought this was a new expression similar to peppered his beer.  Do you mean, instead,  piqued his aesthetic sense?

Whatever, I thought she was a dinner date to the end.

bc  (The Appel kid)

P.s. I'll bet Muybridge solved this (or at least tried to) back in the previous cent. (that's < 1901).  for the very few, unfamiliar  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/ccva/muybridge/


"John M. Clement" wrote:

> There are some old physics books which have strobe pictures of cats changing position in freefall.  Some of these books date from before 1950, so this problem has been long solved, and pictured.  Sorry I do not remember which books.
>
> If you want to get footage of diving, there is probably some in the classic film of the olympics done by Leni Riefenstahl.  These are rentable at the better video stores.  This is the film that tweaked Hitler's nose.
>
> > Zach writes:
> > > ....  Only stroboscopic pictures would reveal
> > > the truth.
> > > Zach
> >
> > Actually a force plate or table would be very useful too in order to
> > detemine the magnitude and direction of the force applied by the
> > athlete to
> > the surface from which they are springing.
> >
> > While it is not always well transmitted to the athletes by coaches and
> > judges, most physical education depts have changed names to things like
> > Kinesiology and many faculty in these depts make as careful studies of
> > these motions and the human bodies concerned as any one in any of the
> > science depts.  Their work is published in journals (if memory serves one
> > of the major ones is The Research Quarterly) and books (James Councilman's
> > book The Science of Swimming is quite good on the physics of the major
> > competitive strokes).  You should be able to find these in most university
> > libraries.
> >
> > Also, on the cats, a NASA astronaut was interested in figuring out how his
> > cat accomplished the feat of landing on its feet.  There is some footage
> > from NASA on this.  In particular Bob Fuller and I worked on a project
> > called Physics Vignettes originally published by John Wiley and Sons on
> > tape and videodisc.  It is now available from ZTeck on CD-ROM.  I believe
> > there was a vignette Bob worked on involving the NASA footage and then an
> > experiment with divers over a pool attempting to switch from a vertical
> > head up to a vertical head down position during a vertical fall.  They did
> > not leave from a board or platform but started hanging by their
> > hands above
> > the pool and attempted to enter the water vertical but now hands down and
> > feet up.  It can be done.
> >
> > Dewey
> >
> >
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> > "As a result of modern research in physics, the ambition and hope,
> > still cherished by most authorities of the last century, that physical
> > science could offer a photographic picture and true image of reality
> > had to be abandoned."  --M. Jammer in Concepts of Force, 1957.
> >
> > "If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make
> > reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish
> > what is real about the universe without a theory...it makes no sense
> > to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what
> > reality is independent of a theory."--S. Hawking in Black Holes
> > and Baby Universes, 1993.
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