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This was mentioned in Yuzu's fan fest but it's too much fun not to take further. Professor Meyers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is using high-tech skating as one part of his teaching aides for his geoscience classes, and even as part of his work to counter fake science
https://news.wisc.edu/geoscience-beginnings/
He "showed the students a YouTube video of Olympic gold medalist figure skater, Yuzuru Hanyu, performing his winning routine. In it, Hanyu is completing multiple rotations on the ice and his speed changes when he goes from arms and leg outstretched, to a tucked position. Meyers used this to explain the conservation of angular momentum, or the change in the spin of the solar system and objects within it, as they get smaller (contract) or larger (expand)." The lectures also include music (from local bands) and sound to tie into science.
It did put me in mind me of a time long ago when I actually sat in on an science class that used swimmers (well, it was Australia!) and horse-racing (well, it was November!) to illustrate the science and physics of movement. But it also makes me wonder - what other classes, with a bit of imagination, use skaters as teachers' aides? (and no, I don't mean medical students learning all about the ways a body can be busted up, thank you... or fashion schools extolling the Korean ladies, although now I think of it...)
https://news.wisc.edu/geoscience-beginnings/
He "showed the students a YouTube video of Olympic gold medalist figure skater, Yuzuru Hanyu, performing his winning routine. In it, Hanyu is completing multiple rotations on the ice and his speed changes when he goes from arms and leg outstretched, to a tucked position. Meyers used this to explain the conservation of angular momentum, or the change in the spin of the solar system and objects within it, as they get smaller (contract) or larger (expand)." The lectures also include music (from local bands) and sound to tie into science.
It did put me in mind me of a time long ago when I actually sat in on an science class that used swimmers (well, it was Australia!) and horse-racing (well, it was November!) to illustrate the science and physics of movement. But it also makes me wonder - what other classes, with a bit of imagination, use skaters as teachers' aides? (and no, I don't mean medical students learning all about the ways a body can be busted up, thank you... or fashion schools extolling the Korean ladies, although now I think of it...)
). As I remember the story, she wrote on her paper, "I AM Sasha Cohen. Do I get extra credit?"
