NBC Learn: Science of NFL Football

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supported by the National Science Foundation

This is the portal for a collection of 10 short videos that explore the science behind professional football. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the videos aim to provide engaging real-world examples of key concepts in physical science, including Newton's Laws, momentum and its conservation, Law of Inertia, vectors, center of mass, projectile motion, and geometric shapes. NFL players are featured in each video, with motion displayed in archived game clips and newly-created video captured with a super high-speed Phantom Cam. Physicists appear in each video to explain the concepts being demonstrated and clarify the connections to physics.

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http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/science-of-nfl-football

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Linear Momentum = Impulse - Motion in One Dimension = Position & Displacement = Velocity - Motion in Two Dimensions = Center of Mass = Projectile Motion - Newton's First Law = Inertia in Motion - Newton's Second Law = Force, Acceleration - Newton's Third Law = Action/Reaction Other Sciences - Mathematics	- High School - Middle School - Informal Education	- Instructional Material = Activity - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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- Learners - Parent/Guardians - Educators - General Publics	- application/flash - text/html	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2010 NBC Universal Media LLC
Keywords:: conservation of momentum, football physics, inertia, kinetic energy, physics of football, sports physics, sports videos, torque
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created April 30, 2012 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: April 30, 2012 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: July 14, 2011
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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