Part IV: Aerodynamics of Sports Equipment
A
Career Opportunity
You have made it to the final phase of your virtual time travel.
For your final mission you must explore the different types of careers
available to mechanical engineers in the fields of sports. After completing your
research, create an advisement for the sport and the piece of equipment that you
believe could be a great contribution to this sport.
Use Microsoft Publisher, the Internet. & Paint located on your
desktop to complete this task. You must explain why the aerodynamic design is
the best for that sport and its conditions.
You must also include why this piece of equipment is so much better then
the other equipment already being sold. Remember
you want to sell your product!!
Aerodynamic links
http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Sports/instructor/
http://www.angelfire.com/mo/PhysicsSports/
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos033.htm
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/Racecar/
The Physics of Baseball
http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/
Physics of Bicycles
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/bicycle.htm
The Physics of Frisbees and Boomerangs
http://www.swe.org/iac/LP/aero_04.html
http://ic.net/~tbailey/Boomerang.html
The Physics of Golf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_ball
http://www.rozwat.com/pages/art_sports_golf210.htm
http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2002.web.dir/josh_fritts/ball.html
The Physics of Tennis