Measurement in sport – the long and the short of it
Activities
Australasian Science (winter 1994)
Forces on alpine ski bindings (pages 48-49)
Australian Science Teachers' Journal
Use your own computer timer: Measurements 'of mice and men' (June 1998, pages 43-44)
Ultrasound and the bouncing ball (December 1996, pages 44-47)
Calculating forces in muscles (September 1992, pages 58-60)
Physics, sport and the great outdoors (September 1991, pages 50-51)
Dynamics of a bouncing ball (March 1991, pages 56-58)
Exploring sports science (An Australian Science Teachers Association special for Science Week, 2000)
Biomechanics (pages 23-30)
Scientific American Frontiers (USA)
Going to extremes: Ultimate speed
On the ball: Bouncing back – students explore how the height from which a ball is dropped affects its rebound.
Newton's Apple (USA)
The Science House (USA)
The Science of Sports – contains a list of activities relating to measurements in sport.
Page updated February 2012.