Sports in Physics

INTRODUCTION

According to the Encarta Dictionary , Sports is an individual or group competitive activity involving physical exertion or skill , governed by rules and sometimes engaged in professionally . Examples of these activities are Baseball , Auto-racing , hockey , Figure skating etc Physics on the other hand is the scientific study of matter , energy force , and motion , and the way they relate to each other

The first planned sporting activity dates back to the ancient Olympics in 776B .C (Ancient Olympics games . A youth from Elis , Southern Greece by the name Coroebus won a football

race at Olympia and became the first Olympic victor whose exploits made written history (Armenti , xvii Physics on the other hand traces its origin to the first time measurements by the ancient Babylonians in about 3000B .C . In addition the use of iron for tools and machines occurred between about 2000B .C and 1000B .C . from then on , the evolution of physics to what it has become today continued and Aristotle wrote the first textbook of physics . His writings also included examples of what is now called the physics of sports (Armenti , xvii

The aim of this is to establish the relationship between sports and physics . It is written in to develop more interest in the understanding of sports and the physical principles that govern them . It provides answers to intriguing questions such as why is the distance travelled by a baseball dependent on the manner it was struck by the batsman and on the weight of...