Sports Physics at Physics Festival

Sunday, April 20, 2008

organized by Tom Weimar, Tom Adair, and Roland Allen

(with thanks to Chris Barttelbort and colleagues of the Texas A&M Athletic Department)

Featuring

Emily Watson and Erin Sharp

of Texas A&M Athletics

with Andrew Harrell and Kyle Damborsky of the Physics Department

Erin and some physics of equestrian events.

But now for kids and frisbees.

Emily, a diver, can do other things too.

Supervising baseball throws, timed with Doppler radar.

And football throws.

How fast can you throw?

If you really try?

Erin and Andrew on break. [Note: Erin had just returned from Nationals, late the preceding evening.]

Erin and Andrew -- frisbee fun.

Erin and Andrew -- more frisbee fun.

Kyle times a throw with his Doppler radar gun.

Catching frisbees.

What they see.