Olympic Success: it’s a numbers game
So, there it is, 2012 is now 2013. Olympic year is officially over, leaving emotional memories and a heavily worn box-set of BBC highlights. In Singapore in 2005 after we won the Olympic… Read More
Category Archive: Olympics
Gold Fever: predicting the number of medals for Team GB at London 2012. THE RESULT
Way back in April, one of our articles predicted the number of medals that Team GB would win at London 2012. It’s always tempting to quietly ignore the predictions one has made, and… Read More
Science Spat: Is the use of sport in technology cheating? Round 3.
It appears that in this year’s Olympics, the issue of technology in sport is as big an issue as it’s ever been. The ‘science spat’ below is the third of three letters and… Read More
Science Spat: Is the use of sport in technology cheating? Round 2.
It appears that in this year’s Olympics, the issue of technology in sport is as big an issue as it’s ever been. And with running suits appearing in athletics, it is bound to… Read More
Science Spat: Is the use of technology in sport cheating? Round 1.
It appears that in this year’s Olympics, the issue of technology in sport is as big an issue as it’s ever been. And with running suits appearing in athletics, it is bound to… Read More
Sprinting’s latest performance enhancer: Usain Bolt.
The following article is a synopsis of “Material Advantage” which was published in Physics World in July 2012. It can be found here. – When I went into the field of sports engineering,… Read More
Why are the Olympics important: 2
One of our V&A questions recently was “why are the Olympics important?” Here, Prof Steve Haake gives his personal take on the importance of the Olympics. Seven years ago, in 2005, one of… Read More
Why are the Olympics important?
With only a few weeks to go until the opening ceremony of the Olympics the hot topic in our ‘Ask a Sports Engineer’ question box this week was about the Olympics and the… Read More
Gold fever: predicting the number of medals for Team GB at London 2012
The great physicist Niels Bohr was responsible for the famous quote “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future”. Of course that doesn’t stop us trying – especially when it comes… Read More
Diving into basic mechanics
I taught the mechanics of solids to mechanical engineering students for around 15 years. When it came to exams, I always tried to include examples from the real world that would stretch the… Read More
