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Today... •Introduction •Some physics vocabulary •Net force: adding forces •More physics vocabulary •Static balance •Balance while turning •<strong>The</strong> physics <strong>of</strong> turns •Jumps (and black holes...) 2
How’d we get ourselves into this? •George’s story •Dede’s story Introduction Some statements about dance technique can be restated using a physics vocabulary… Lifts “feel” the way they do for the same reason that a large star will collapse to form a black hole... 3
Page 1: The Physics of Dance George Gollin,
Page 5 and 6: Force changes momentum • The hard
Page 7 and 8: More Physics Vocabulary • Angular
Page 9 and 10: Still More Physics Vocabulary • C
Page 11 and 12: About torque... Torque changes angu
Page 13 and 14: Center of gravity Just like you'd t
Page 15 and 16: More complicated example v ! v ! Fo
Page 17 and 18: Staying Balanced Smaller floor cont
Page 19 and 20: Balance While Turning Not all posit
Page 21 and 22: Reminders: The Physics of Turns !
Page 23 and 24: Calculating Rotational Inertia I "
Page 25 and 26: " Increasing I Decreases Spin Rate
Page 27 and 28: The Physics of Jumps Gravitational
Page 29 and 30: The Physics of Jumps The equivalenc
Page 31 and 32: Gravitational acceleration... …is
Page 33 and 34: Trajectory in a Jump Height vs. tim
Page 35 and 36: Illusions in a Jump By raising his/
Page 37 and 38: Half the duration of the jump is sp
Page 39 and 40: With More Time... Time permitting,

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