Sport Definition and 23 Threads

Hello, I'm Software Developer who plays football and table tennis in free time, but most of my free time I spent in garden constantly building something. Kind regards, Renato

Hi, In education, I often hear about semesters, which are each halves of an academic year (the first one is from July to December and the second one is from January to June). However, I never hear about that term in sport seasons: that is each halves of a sport season are just called halves...

Hello, When I watched live matches of football (soccer) leagues and MotoGP, live commentators often speak British accent. If I want to be live sport commentators, will mastering British accent (RP) be helpful, assuming that many commentators speak RP and I have taken ESL course? Cheers, Bagas

Homework Statement To calculate the resultant pedal force from the variables given: Crank (degrees) measured clockwise from vertical, spindle (degrees) measured anti-clockwise from horizontal, tangent force (N) applied to the pedal surface, normal force (N) applied to the pedal surface and...

please am new here and i need a help, i can use poisson distribution to get a probability but how can i use it to get several outcome? like over and under ,1x2? thanks

The Olympic games in Rio will start soon. Will you be watching them? What are your favourite disciplines? I'm not sure how many sports will I be able to watch due to different time zones. But If I get the chance, I like watching gymnastics and I'm interested in trampolining and BMX which are...

Hi, I am interested in the basics of "goal ref technology", but I was not able to find a lot of material. Just one very brief wikipedia page and some paragraphs at the http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/kom/proj/goalref.html#. Does this work a bit like the anti shoplifting RFID tags? As far...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13407712 Wow, it's a...moose? I know we have at least one member who has enough material to work with, to enter this competition next year! Astro, you could style your beard into a planetary model!

New member, so first of all Hello all! Writing this paper on the topic of physics involved in the sport of basketball. There are numerous factors involved and I thought it would be fun for everybody to contribute a few factors. Such as but of course not limited to projectile motion (make...

What is economy tyre? What is the difference between economy tyre and sport tyre?

My problem Hello, i just started physics at school, and we had one week of it before the holidays. We got taught some basic things, VERY basic things such as what vectors and scalars are, VERY basic tables, and that's about it. And then the last day of the term the teacher tells us we have to...

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Homework Statement So in my high school physics class we are asked to write a paper about devoping a sport on the moon. I choose to do frisbee on the moon. We are asked to use 3 physics principles for the sport and describe how each princible applies to my sport in detail. also describe how...

While watching Bush speak of McCain I thought that I noted a small fuzzy white growth above his mouth. Kinda looked like the beginnings of a Latino American style one. Tell me was he just to busy to shave or is he starting to grow a mustash. And it turns out that McCain had done charitable...

Homework Statement There are 8 athletes, each numbered from 1 to 8. They all play a game against each other. Thus in each round, a group of two is randomly made. In a group, a person with lower number always wins. eg, a match between 3 and 7 would be always won by 3. The losers are...

1. A sport car starting from rest can attain a speed of 60 mi/hr in 8s. A runner can do a 100-yd dash in 9.8s. Assume that the runner is moving with a constant speed and that the car starts at the instant he passes it. How far will both travel until the car overtakes the runner? (convert...

Why do many consider road cycling to be a beautiful sport?

Ok, I'm looking to buy a sport bike sometime in the next year (possibly two years, depending on university financials, some things have to come first afterall). I intend for it to be my primary transport 80-90% of the time. Incidently, it will be my first bike, and no I don't have the license...

Do you think sport it to commercialized ? and the word, "sport", is now misused.

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Conservation of angular momentum in sport. I was hoping for some examples of sports such as diving where conservation of angular momentum is important and how it applies to the sport etc. Feel free to go in depth, I am looking some good examples of it's importance. cheers!

Personally, I think golf is probably the most mental of the other sports played in the US. Who agrees or disagrees?

Entertaining article about the recent Math Olympiad held in Athens. http://slate.msn.com/id/2103903/ I'm not sure if math should be a sport, but I think a couple of the other things he mentioned would be entertaining.