I found this great article through an RSS feed for Scientific American about kinematics, velocity and acceleration. The name of the article is "How Can a Slower Runner Catch a Faster One?"
What I really enjoyed about this article is that it not only perfectly fits into the first week's lesson plan for the Clinical Kinesiology class that I teach, but that it also includes an embedded video link to a video that discusses the 'Science of NFL football' where all of the information is clearly explained through the game of football. The article goes on to discuss how a lion (which is clearly slower than a gazelle) can catch a gazelle - not with speed, but through acceleration of velocity over time. Then the article relates the information of the lion and the gazelle back to football. This is definitely an article that I will use in my hybrid online course for my students to review and discuss.
References
Editors, The, (2010, November 12). How can a slower runner catch a faster one? Scientific American. Retrieved November 13, 2010, from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=football-how-can-a-slower-runner
No comments:
Post a Comment