Discuss the evolution of science and sports
The Evolution of Science and Sports
Sports have likely been around as long as there have been people. Every society has its favorite pastimes, and today with ever-advancing technologies, there is the ability to design high-tech equipment and utilize a host of specialists to help athletes perform better. It is such an important part of society that there are now fields dedicated to the study of sports medicine and fitness. No matter what sport or type of recreation you enjoy, the principles of science are involved.
Take a look at how science helps in different sports from football, to swimming, to NASCAR™.
- National Science Foundation. (n.d.). Science of speed: friction and heat. Retrieved from https://nsf.gov/news/mmg/
mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=69291& from=search_list - National Science Foundation. (n.d.). Science of the 2010 summer Olympics. Retrieved from http://science360.gov/
series/Science+Of+The+Summer+ Olympics/84211b74-7ae1-4d9b- 9024-5faa6300fc29 - National Science Foundation. (n.d.). Science and engineering of the 2014 Olympic winter games. Retrieved from https://www.nsf.gov/news/
special_reports/ winterolympics/index.jsp - National Science Foundation. (n.d.). Newton’s first law of motion: The science of NFL football. Retrieved from https://nsf.gov/news/mmg/
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You are encouraged to conduct additional research to learn more about a sport or other recreational activity that you enjoy.
During the unit address the following questions:
- Share some information about the science behind your sport or recreation of choice.
- How can you categorize the scientific information that you learned about your sport/recreation? For example, does it involve physics, chemistry, and/or biology?
- What technological advances have been made in your favorite activity during its history?
- Have there been any previously held beliefs or customs in your sport/recreation that have been dismissed by scientific research? If so, please explain.
- Now that you have done some research on the science involved in your favorite activity, do you think you can use that information to perform better? Why, or why not?
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Christopher Jeffries posted Jan 7, 2020 10:29 PM
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- Share some information about the science behind your sport or recreation of choice.
My Sport choice is Snowboarding. I love to snowboard, but I never really realized just how much science is behind everything that happens while I am on the board. Snowboarding requires you to focus a lot on balance and using the laws of gravity to your advantage.
- How can you categorize the scientific information that you learned about your sport/recreation? For example, does it involve physics, chemistry, and/or biology?
Physics plays a big part in snowboarding. You must pump your legs up and down in order to build up more momentum. The more momentum the higher you go and the higher you go the more points and tricks your able to perform.
- What technological advances have been made in your favorite activity during its history?
New snowboards are created all the times. There are many kinds of snowboards and they all do something different. There are boards made from soft and hard woods. They each allow you to do something different. Soft boards are great for beginners with low body weights. The soft boards are for a not so hard feeling while your boarding. The harder boards are used for going off trails or going down a black diamond trail. They also allow for better landings when jumping and trying to do tricks.
- Have there been any previously held beliefs or customs in your sport/recreation that have been dismissed by scientific research? If so, please explain.
Nothing that I did not already know.
- Now that you have done some research on the science involved in your favorite activity, do you think you can use that information to perform better? Why, or why not?
I think knowing that the way I use my body weight and how to apply it to make my body move is going to make my snowboarding experience that much better. I also think understanding just how much science goes into snowboarding will affect the way I board in the future.
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Calvin Walker posted Jan 8, 2020 12:29 PM
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Good day all,
- Share some information about the science behind your sport or recreation of choice.
I like all kinds of sports, but rifles and archery have become my go to sports. They both require discipline focus and a basic understanding of how to apply certain pressure for trigger squeeze or string draw to assist in accuracy.
- How can you categorize the scientific information that you learned about your sport/recreation? For example, does it involve physics, chemistry, and/or biology?
I would say that it would involve physics when you look at understanding the science behind the recoil of a rifle or the archer’s paradox. Newton’s Law of Motion helps describe the flight of the arrow: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Also, the rifle will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force according to Newton’s law.
- What technological advances have been made in your favorite activity during its history?
I would say that the rifles of today have advance in construction. Rapid fire abilities compared the past are far significant. A look at the smart sight used to see distances farther than the natural eye can see. Suppression of noise and buffering to stop large amounts of recoil. A bow manufacturer called Hoyt, owned by Easton since the 1980s, developed a new core for bow limbs using syntactic foam. This was originally designed so submarine control surfaces could be kept hollow without being crushed by sea pressure, the incorporation of this foam makes bows limbs lighter and much stronger. Many other designs help archers flight of arrows become sturdier and provide trajectory accuracy improvements.
- Have there been any previously held beliefs or customs in your sport/recreation that have been dismissed by scientific research? If so, please explain.
Not sure if there are any that have been dismissed.
- Now that you have done some research on the science involved in your favorite activity, do you think you can use that information to perform better? Why, or why not?
Defiantly, it made me more aware of some changes I need to make to become better with the bow. Serving in the military and enjoying hunting I have grown over the years to become a great shooter of rifles and pistols but the bow takes much more understand of Kinetic and potential energy as well as trajectory and a better understanding of how the bow reacts as it bends and flexes when placed under the pressure of the accelerating bowstring and the lateral displacement caused sliding sideways when released from my fingers. Hopefully I get better.
Calvin
References
https://www.history.com/
https://phys.org/news/2016-08-
https://www.scienceabc.com/
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