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SPORTS PHYSICS MOVIE
CLIPS FORENSIC
PHYSICS
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INDIVIDUAL SPORTS
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PHYSICS OF BOUNCING BALLS AND OTHER
OBJECTS SILLY PUTTY
COLLISIONS SPINNING TOPS & GYROSCOPES OTHER PHYSICS MOVIES
BALL
TRAJECTORIES and AERODYNAMICS and DUNE BUGGY TRAJECTORIES
WOBBLE BOARDS & MUSICAL SAWS MARIOTTEÕS CRADLE (aka NewtonÕs cradle)
A falling slinky does something totally
unexpected. The bottom end waits for the top end to
fall before the bottom end starts to fall. See also
http://youtu.be/eCMmmEEyOO0
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PLASMA PHYSICS DEPARTMENT 1960-1995 – HISTORICAL PHOTOS
Brief CV
Born
1943. Lived in Berry, NSW until age 14 then moved to Forbes.
B.Sc. Dip. Ed at Sydney University.
PhD
in plasma physics in 1968. From 1968 to 1996 I worked in the Plasma Physics
Department at Sydney
University,
specialising in Alfven wave studies in the TORTUS tokamak. I retired in 2003 as
an Honorary
member
of staff, to continue work on the physics of sport and forensic physics.