So, I stop at my local outdoor store to buy longjohns and wool socks for Curlapalooza this weekend.
Get to talking with the cashier who happens to know a great deal about the physics of curling.
“Just Google it.” he says “Google ‘physics of curling’.”
Umm. I’m frightened now.
Get to talking with the cashier who happens to know a great deal about the physics of curling.
“Just Google it.” he says “Google ‘physics of curling’.”
Umm. I’m frightened now.
Ohhhhhh, the rotational equilibrium… of course!
(note to self: Google ‘rotational equilibrium’)
(note to self: Google ‘rotational equilibrium’)
Ah, the classic rivalry: friction v. contact pressure.
The Hatfields and McCoys of physics.
I have no idea what I’m even talking about here. I was an English major.
I could give you some decent free verse on the metaphor of the curling stone. I wasn’t told about the math tho.
The Hatfields and McCoys of physics.
I have no idea what I’m even talking about here. I was an English major.
I could give you some decent free verse on the metaphor of the curling stone. I wasn’t told about the math tho.
Anywaaaaaay…
Apparently, a curling stone moves in the opposite direction of the front-edge spin.
Spin it to the right, it goes left and vice versa.
Apparently, a curling stone moves in the opposite direction of the front-edge spin.
Spin it to the right, it goes left and vice versa.
While conventional physics credits ice-melting for that phenomenon, I question their dismissal of the more obvious micro-hyrdroplaning which raises the leading edge of the stone and counterintuitively makes the trailing edge the operant surface.
I mean, even an English major gets that! Am I right?!
Anyhoo, curling. Physics. Guinness.
Stories will result.
Anyhoo, curling. Physics. Guinness.
Stories will result.
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