Technical Skiing: The Science Behind Making the Perfect Turn @MITES333

ES.333 | Technical Skiing: The Science Behind Making the Perfect Turn @MITES333 | Uploaded May 2014 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Produced by Katie Marlowe; created May 5, 2014

Starring Tyler Marlowe and the MIT Alpine Ski Team
Special Thanks to Graham Ramsay, Dave Custer and Gerhard Pawelka

This video is for anyone high school aged and up that are interested in skiing and what to learn more about the mechanics of how it works. Understanding these mechanics can improve one's skiing ability and technique, and can also make one more aware of the physics in our everyday lives.
The video covers three main topics:
Conservation of Energy (1:40)
Friction (4:18), and
Centripetal Motion (6:58).

To learn more about these basic physics concepts, check out the MIT course, 8.01 (Physics I: Mechanics). To learn more about skiing at MIT, check out the MIT Ski Team Facebook page: facebook.com/MIT.Ski.Team.

This video was produced as part of CMS/ES.333, Production of Educational Videos at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

$The Science of Snowflakes Produced by Emily Salvador; created May 5, 2014 This video is designed to explore different technical disciplines (Chemistry, Math, and Computer Science) through the topic of snowflakes to motivate students to further explore those disciplines. The audience of this video is middle school students. The vocabulary and content discussed in this video is simplified enough to target that population. This video is part of a group of videos produced by ES.333 (Production of Educational Videos). For more information on Disney Animations Snowflake Generator, check out this research paper (https://www.math.ucla.edu/~jteran/papers/SSCTS13.pdf). To play around with a neat fractal generator, check out the following simulation (http://www.shodor.org/master/fractal/software/Snowflake.html). Since this video is tailored for middle school students, relevant courses at MIT might be too advanced for our viewers but check out 5.111s class page, 18.01s class page, and 6.01s class page for a more in depth look at some of the technical topics covered in this video. My video can be divided into three sections: Chemistry (0:00-3:58); Randomness (3:58-5:34); Computer Simulation (5:34-6:38) I would like to thank Walt Disney Animation Studio for allowing me to show visuals from their research on snow simulation. I would like to thank my content expert Joseph Azzarelli.$

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