| Description |
128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Science projects |
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Gardner, Robert, 1929-2017.
Science projects.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-125) and index. |
| Summary |
Presents science projects and experiments related to sports, covering such topics as speed, Newton's Laws, force and motion, gravity, friction, and collisions. |
| Contents |
Speed, sports and science: Speed on the base paths -- Speed on ice -- Throwing speed from the outfield -- Are passes really faster? -- How fast can you shoot a hockey puck? -- When to pass the puck or ball -- How to kick a football the maximum distance -- Speed and running surface -- Sports, forces, and work: Basketball and Newton's first law of motion -- More sports and Newton's first law of motion -- Sports and the second part of Newton's first law of motion -- Sports and Newton's second law of motion -- Sports and Newtons third law of motion -- Sports and forces perpendicular to an object's motion -- Making circles on ice -- Curveballs -- Sports, balance, centers of gravity, and friction: An object's center of gravity -- Your center of gravity -- Sports and center of gravity -- Football's center of gravity and passing -- Football's center of gravity and kicking -- Baseball or softball bat, its COG, and its sweet spot -- Why do baseball and softball players slide? -- Friction and football cleats -- Friction and "English" -- Sports, momentum, and collisions: Sports, follow-through, and momentum -- Sports, impulse and catching -- Collisions between surfaces and balls used in sports -- Rules for game balls --- Collisions: hot and cold -- Model for collisions and protection from collisions -- Protection from collisions: another model -- Collisions and mass: another model -- Collisions and mass: a less elastic model -- Playing the angles and distances: Shooting soccer balls from different angles -- Shooting angles in hockey -- How a hockey goalie reduces the shooting angle -- Basketball and shooting angles -- Basketball and shooting distances -- Lefties and the distance to first base. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.1 3.0 45107. |
| Subject |
Force and energy -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
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Motion -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
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Sports -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
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Science projects -- Juvenile literature.
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Sports -- Experiments.
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Force and energy -- Experiments.
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Motion -- Experiments.
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Experiments.
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Science projects.
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| Added Title |
Science projects about |
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Physics of sports |
| ISBN |
0766011674 |
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