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The Physics of Figure Skating - fsf

Started by JimStanmore, September 03, 2010, 12:02:16 AM

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Post Title: The Physics of Figure Skating
Posted: 02-23-2010, 02:03 PM

New article on an old theme. Interesting.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-physics-of-figure-skating-2010-02-23

(Click on "View Transcript" below the video to read the text.)  



Edit: corrected link

kiwiskater


Isk8NYC

Yeah, that's the problem with the archived threads - the links weren't saved by the copy-and-paste from text method.

I updated the link above.
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