Skiing
The Physics and Skiing — What is up With That?
Some of you may ask WTF am I doing mixing up physics on this site. A lot of good skiers can ski without knowing a vector from victor, of that there is no doubt as […]
physics
Skiing
A Better Free Body Diagram!
One of the items I’ve been talking about here are the physics of skiing and focusing on the basic Newtonian Mechanics of skiing. Of late I’ve taken the approach to talk about basic force and […]
Skiing
Forces Involved In Skiing
In this diagram I highlight two forces involved in skiing. The force of gravity and the force normal (the force pushing back by the surface of the slope). However, this is an idealized situation and […]
Skiing
Free Body Diagram
What we are looking at is a simple free body diagram. Free body diagrams are used by those studying the physics of a situation to understand and visualize the forces at play in the situation […]
Skiing
Ski Energy
Energy is a term we hear about quite a bit, we have a general notion of what it means, but unless we remember our basic physics we have usually have less than a precise understanding […]