Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Curling--sending the 42-lb. granite curling stone down a long sheet of ice toward the center of a bull's-eye target--is all about friction and surface physics, as NSF-funded scientists Sam Colbeck, formerly from the U.S. Army Cold Regions Lab, and physicist George Tuthill from Plymouth State University, explain, with help from Olympic hockey player John Shuster, and Iain Hueton, from the Ogden Curling Club in Ogden, Utah.
Curling--sending the 42-lb. granite curling stone down a long sheet of ice toward the center of a bull's-eye target--is all about friction and surface physics, as NSF-funded scientists Sam Colbeck, formerly from the U.S. Army Cold Regions Lab, and physicist George Tuthill from Plymouth State University, explain, with help from Olympic hockey player John Shuster, and Iain Hueton, from the Ogden Curling Club in Ogden, Utah.
