Learning the physics of skating
Abstract
Sports in general are hard to learn since it requires rigorous training and special skills. Skating, for example, is a fun past time but learning it could be painstaking. In Physical terms, the behavior that governs rollerblading and the person wearing the skates can be explained by Newton's laws of motion. The concepts involved in the behavior of rollerblading are: various forces, friction and drag, potential and kinetic energy, the conservation of energy, acceleration and linear and angular momentum.
A brief lecture will be given on skating in general. The participants will be grouped into 35 groups. For each group, a pair of skates will be given to a person who is willing to learn how to skate. The goal is for that person in the group to be able to skate. An assessment will be done after the whole activity to summarize the concepts applied in skating. The main objective for this workshop is that when teaching such concepts in class we can actually try to use sports for demonstration in which the students are interested to learn.
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