The Hurdle
Before a diver jumps off of a springboard, he does a sort of hop-skip step called a hurdle. After doing a few steps, the diver leaps up into the air with his arms raised. When he lands back down on the tip of the board, he swings his arms down past his legs and then up, leaping into the air and off of the board.
The purpose of this hurdle is as follows:
A diver cannot simply stand on the end of board, step off, and expect to have the power to go up or the momentum to rotate his body in any direction. What the hurdle does, is first to allow the diver to use the diving board as a slingshot, and second get as much energy as possible out of the "slingshot".
This is achieved when the diver takes the first leap into the air with his arms raised. When he comes back down on the board, his own mass falling onto the board will apply a certain force. An additional force is added as the arms swing down at the same time with a greater acceleration, applying more force. At the bottom of the diving board's oscillation, all of the now stored potential energy is released. The diver swings his arms upward and begins to release his pressure on the board. The board pushes the diver up and into the air with a huge force.
This force now can be used by the diver not only to go up, but to rotate and therefore perform various dives.
The Dives and Application
To do a front dive a diver pushes his hips upward just slightly as he leaves the board. After he had begun to go up into the air, he throws his arms downward just enough to make is upper torso rotate around his hips. At the peak of the dive, the diver tightens his stomach muscles and pulls his legs up towards the sky, leaving his body in a perfect upside-down position to enter the water head-first.
In order to perform a front dive with a somersault, it requires a full flip of the body and therefore it takes a quicker rotation to cover such an angular distance. The diver takes off from the diving board with the same hip motion and arm swing as for a forward dive, but throws the arms further and makes a smaller "ball" in the air.
Now that you know how to find all of the correct parts of your jump to clear it successfully you can now add some difficulty and variety to the trick by spinning while in the air. Since you know the distance and your velocity from before you can find out what your air time was. Once you have all of that info you can use it to solve for what your angular velocity should be depending of how much you want to spin. That way you can make sure that you'll complete the spins in time to spot your landing and get ready for impact.
...es of the snowboard. Balancing the snowboard and riding on the rail, momentum keeps pushing on both of them down the rail. You may also see more torque when you are on the top of the mountain or hill and you are teetering on the edge. Putting more mass on the front of the snowboard will cause the front of the snowboard to droop downhill, therefore causing you to take off down the mountain.
Board breaking is often exhibited as an incredible talent performed by martial artists at demonstrations or tournaments in order to show off strength. This isn’t true, however, as breaking is an illustrated example of a perfected technique as one would use in a real situation. The accuracy, strength, and power of these techniques is demonstrated through the break. Many people are amazed by breaking, but don’t fully understand how truly easy it is. Breaking can be explained by both the physics behind the act and the mental aspects of the preparation of the break.
This is an ineffective tow due to the fact that the patient is not on top of the swimmer, my technique for the strides are correct. However if I was to correctly align my centre of buoyancy with the patient it would be more of an effective tow. By doing so it would prevent further drag and resistance, the amount of water displaced caused more eddies to form creating a suction affect. Overall my performance for the timed tow proved inefficient causing the patient to be submerged under water at some stages, positive aspects of the tow are the correct grip and strides.
Once we plant by pushing the pole to the back of the box in the ground, the pole begins to bend, and like a spring will eventually return to its normal shape. During this period of time, the pole is in a stable equilibrium (Bloomfield, 1997). Right before the vaulter plants, they should be going in a forward and upward motion (Linthorn, 2000). During the plant, the pole begins to bend as you are putting force on it and absorbs the kinetic energy that is transferred from the vaulter. Like a spring though, the kinetic energy that was absorbed is transferred into elastic potential energy. The pole is bent because of the energy, force, and momentum from the vaulter. Once the pole hits the end of the box, there will be some energy lost. In order to minimize as much energy loss as possible, you would have to perfect the planting technique (The Physics of Pole Vaulting, 2009). This is a hard mission to accomplish, for most of the energy is lost in the plant is determined on the angle of your arms and position of your body (Linthorn, 2000). For instance, when you plant the pole and your arms are flimsy or bent with the planter foot pointing to an angle other than straight in front,, your body will move in that direction and you risk hitting the crossbars that hold the bar up. In order to lose less energy and control where your body goes, the vaulters arms need to be strong and straight while pushing on the pole as you jump in the air during the plant. Your body and planter foot also need to be pointing straight ahead, pointing at the pole. Although, at some point the force the pole has on the vaulter will be to strong and the arms and torso will push back; this helps the vaulter then pull on the pole as they try to rotate into an upside down position (Linthorn,
Here is some example of how code is implemented into programs to make it look like you are jumping. I got this example from the web site http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article694.asp
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