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.