Physics of Sports

• Analyze a physics problem in sports, plan and carry out a solution, and critically judge the results.
• Define concepts of mechanics and fluid mechanics appearing in sports – such as position, velocity, acceleration, angular velocity, momentum, angular momentum, moment of inertia, kinetic and potential energy, center of mass, forces and torques, lift, drag, the Magnus force, the Reynolds number, Newton’s laws, and conservation of energy, momentum and angular momentum.
• Apply concepts of mechanics and fluid mechanics to analyze motion in sports.
• Explain and model forces and torques on athletes and sporting equipment and their motion.
• Make experiments in sporting facilities and in the lab and analyze the measurements and video footage using concepts of mechanics and fluid mechanics.
• Analyze the limitations of the human body and sporting equipment.
• Optimize the sports performance and give recommendations for improvements.
• Present essential physics of a sport of own choice.

Physics of various sports disciplines in theory and experiment. Football, swimming, basketball, volleyball, cycling, rowing, trampoline, gymnastics, archery, athletics, ice hockey, skiing, golf, tennis and many others.

10060, or equivalent courses.

Lectures, labs at sports facilities and project on the physics of a sport of own choice