Curling

COLD HARD SCIENCE. The Controversial Physics of Curling - Smarter Every Day 111

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Patreon Support Link: http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Subbable Support Link: http://subbable.com/smartereveryday Tweet this Vid: http://bit.ly/1hf576c Post to FB:http://on.fb.me/1iEpfQ7 Smarter Every Day Infographics are Here: http://smartereveryday.tumblr.com/ Custom Curling Graphics and Amination Components by:Emily Weddle Design Check out her work: http://www.emilyweddledesign.com Equations coded in LaTex by Will Leahy: http://www.willleahy.info/ Curling simulations by: Keith Langsdorf If you want to try curling in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, visit  http://www.milwaukeecurlingclub.com to sign up.   Or find a club in your area via the United States Curling Association. http://www.ecsalaska.com/curl/club_map.php Music and curling sounds by: Gordon McGladdery, A Shell In The Pit http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/ Robert Farrell answered my Facebook appeal for Photographers/Videographers in the Milwaukee Wisconsin area and filmed the curlers for me at the Milwaukee curling club. He's a photographer http://www.robertfarrellphotography.com/ ------------------------------- With thanks to: JR Ginex-Orinion - he helped me by putting the equation in LaTex and giving me a file. Point Mallard Ice complex let me run my curling stone on the ice between free skate and hockey practice. Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION A Special thanks to the researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. They study tribology, the science of friction. Check out their work: http://www.angstrom.uu.se/tribomaterials Here is the techical paper written by Harald Nyberg from the video: http://tic.epfl.ch/files/content/sites/tic/files/courstribo/articles_courstribo/articles_2013/A5.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tweet ideas to me @SmarterEveryDay Instead of saving for my kids' college, I make videos using the money I would have saved. The thought is it will help educate the world as a whole, and one day generate enough revenue to pay for their education. Until then if you appreciate what you've learned in this video and the effort that went in to it, please SHARE THE VIDEO! If you REALLY liked it, feel free to support "Smarter Every Day" on Patreon or Subbable. Warm Regards, Destin