The Physics Behind Gymnastics, Explained (Vaults, Tumbles and Flips) | WIRED
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Emily Kuhn, a former gymnast and current physics PhD student at Yale University, explains all the math behind the amazing flips and turns we see during the Olympic gymnastics competitions. Emily explains why "The Biles" tumbling routine is so difficult as well as the types of forces acting on these gymnasts every time they use the uneven bars.
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as a physics student, I'm actually surprised that I never got a scenario or problem relating to gymnastics. This was really interesting!
I actually got one in high school! It was about the forces pulling on the arms of male gymnasts when they go into an iron cross, and how it gets like exponentially harder with every angle closer to horizontal.
Every sport has a direct relation to physics!
@@totukimou Yeah, so does literally everything within the universe... so everything.
@@totukimou bmx is fun too
Guess you haven't gotten to the superman problems yet
In this event, she earned many connection points for linking math, physics and the sport. On top of that, she aknowledged the limitations of her calculations, which is welcomed by this judge panel (me). However, I'm gonna deduct 0.8 pts for the pen color. It is hard to see what is being written. Therefore, the final score is my like.
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I'd like you to provide a proof for your 0.8 deduction. I don't believe a judge should be giving approximations or false scores.
😂😂😂
@@mark-ish we need more judges on the panel
@@mark-ish Too late, the other athletes already competed. (talks in evil langague)
I did not expect to be entertained by so much physics, but I loved it!
Also "we're going to approximate her twisting as if she were a rod" ah yes, I love approximations 😂😂
😂😂😂😂
I love it lol 😆🤣
Shannon Miller's (Mag 7, 1996) father was a physics professor in Oklahoma and he used videos of Shannon doing gymnastics to teach.
It amazes me, hearing these number - like how many G's they're experiencing in self propelled maneuvers - that Russians never flagged gymnasts for space programs.
Science is a fun subject by itself. The problem usually lies in how it is communicated. If the teacher inundates the students with equations without relating how it is applied in the real world, the lesson tends to get lost and you have a room full of disinterested people asking "why do I need to learn y=mx + b? How will it help me pay my bills?"
You are so correct! I
Exactly, Physics only make sense to me when I actually used what I learned in high school to solve daily basis problems.
Here is some physics that can help. I can skip the equations. Basically, the longer something is, the more torque you apply to something. So if you need to change a tire and you can't get a lug nut off, if you have a pipe or something around that you can use to basically make the wrench longer, it will help you get it off without needing someone stronger.
I've been itching to use gymnastics in my science lectures, so I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
ms girl did more math in this video than i’ve ever done in my life
🧐
I love bio mechanics so much . Makes me even more thrilled that someone is applying these formulas to a sport I coach and used to be apart of.
I’m a xcel silver/level 4 gymnast and I don’t understand how we do it. Like we just throw ourselves in the air and hope we land. I don’t think about the physics
You are using your muscle memory to do it with *feels*
And you get it by *practice makes perfect*
I use to teach gymnastics.
I'm also horrible at math. Kinda crazy watching this, we can see how we both are using it to teach, complete & improve skills without even knowing it!! When you're coach tells you to tuck tighter/sooner, release earlier, jump forward/higher, run faster, etc., it's bc of physics!!
Also, I bet you often just know or can feel what you did wrong & need to correct when you mess up a skill. Same thing...you're using your knowledge of physics!!😃 Pretty crazy stuff, huh?!?🤯😁🤪😅
It's like that for everything. We don't need to think about the force of gravity to overcome when jumping, we just jump.
As someone who majored in physics and tutors in it, don't learn it for your gymnastics. You will be in your head too much. There are some sports where it can help. In gymnastics you have to trust your body. Do what feels right. Know your limits and your potential
this video helped me to recollect all the formulas and helped to solve some of the problems ...... plz make more videos in which education to people
this video really shows my current crisis: idk if i want to be the gymnast or the physicist😕
she just proved it that you can be both.. do gymnastics in your early years then proceed to become a physicist..
Definitely both
Depending on your age you don't really have to make a choice until after high school.
Be a physics major and do competitive gymnastics in college!
Emily, I vote this counts as your comp exam for candidacy- thanks for walking us through this!
On god, if teachers would have used these types of lessons to teach various subjects, I would’ve paid attention in class.
I wish they had used a better a colour marker and or graphics over these sections I could better see the equations albeit I still wouldn't understand them. But at least I could try
man... i wish we could replace football with gymnastics.
You and me both, I have often thought so as well
Hmmm
basically the same thing now adays
Im a business student, and i always sucked at physics, but i was so entertained to learn about how much physics goes into these skills.
I didn’t expect to get a review for high school physics 🤔
I'm glad she used a meter conversion despite putting feet in her formula. I had to double check with the mismatched units.
Do one on skateboarding.
Me, who has only learned about physics for 2 semesters in 2 years of highschool trying to understand this
🥲
I was hoping she’d discuss the half twist out of the Biles and why that’s insanely more difficult than a double layout.
Wait.. so you're telling me that the physics I learned in school can actually be applied to real life?
You cant be serious
Can you take in to account the interaction of the delay of the spring floor, foam absorption, etc. Love your physics explanations. Would love to be able to converse with you about this material. Thank you for your research
I enjoyed this so much !
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO
Some of the time estimations could be more closely approximated by counting the number of frames vs. the frame rate of the video.
Love it! Centrifugal force is just…inertia though.
Makes the math easier, she definitely knows, she studies physics
loving all these olympic sport themed videos lately
Me sitting here nodding my head in agreement like I have any clue what she's talking about...
Cause I need to know how tf they stay up in the air so long and how they even get up so high
Excellent!
Physics is awesome 😃.
I agree
2,3 acceleration! Amazing!!!
*0:08** best transition*
Great info
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I wish our curriculum will be like this
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Yay Emily!!!! IB Physics to Wired :)
Amazing :)
VERY NICE!
I clicked on this video feeling pretty smart. I am now humbled.
This is easier than my high school physics.
Okay now I want the physics of skateboarding
If there wasn't so much of a demand for CS, I would most-definitely be a physics major.
CS?
@@landoblu computer science
Nice
This is so fkn sick
Yay, Emily!!
I am here pretending I am smart enough to understand then brag about it later
So we just got levi ackerman's children runnin around freely?
Ikr
best comment 😂😂
Flashbacks on past physics highschool classes 😳
yo thanks wray
I always wonder if a gymnast could go higher than a high jumper?
I wanna learn how to do a backflip but am too scared!
2:27 this is wrong tho. You’re assuming the tangent velocity v is constant throughout the circumference, and that’s not the case
It’s so weird seeing an American using Metric units, but that is nothing compared to her mind-boggling math and satisfying explanation that what gymnasts feel while doing giants on the high bar - the centrifuge force and pull of “another you”!!
You have to do physics math in metric. All Americans do physics in metric! :)
We don’t use imperial units in math/science, only for more “informal” measurements.
"We begin by assuming a collection of spherical gymnasts..."
I really like your profile pic! I couldn’t help but notice our greek letter similarity 😂. Eigenvalues are such an interesting topic!
What even was that part of the video though lol. Like I could understand MAYBE if she then went on to actually understand what biles did. This video was a mess
Una vez me estrelle en una pared balanceandome en barras, creo que hasta escupi un diente
She is flying. ❤Simone.
I feel nerded out
I initially thought, i didn't know Lauren Daigle knew physics!
I thought she said simple physics...she talks talking Im like what in the intense math is going on here wooo..
lol 4:19 take that out of context 😂
Hey Girl, you’re so SMART, my brain feels like mush. You’re Awsome!
Lol yall jinxed her 🤣
Neat
The have measured up to 7g at the bottom of a swing on h bar
Bro for me I just put it in my mind to do a double twist and it happens idk
Wait isn't velocity measured by displacement instead of distance? Otherwise it would be speed
You're right! Sometimes we use both words synonymously, but the correct way to calculate the centripetal acceleration is using speed, so distance over time. Good catch!
When I saw this initially I instantly thought “Bonny McMurry”
Mam plz use a dark colors 🙏
Has the popularity of gymanstics in the US been affected by the increase in competition in the last 10 years or so? Before the 2010s the US was dominant to a ridiculous degree but now they find GB, Japan, China and Russia have stepped their games up, is it affecting the viewing figures?
CPI Belford roxo
This is so ironic because I was literally just watching some gymnastic clips and then this pops up in my sub feed 😂
It's not irony, it's the algorithm.
You: *checking gymnastic clips
Google algorithm: 👀
Did any one else notice how much the host moves her head!?
8:44 This is the D we are going to be taking....
Alcino
Now it's about jade carey and suni lee 🇺🇸
When did everyone get lost?
@8:44 "This is the D we are going to be taking" hahaha 😆
Great video. The connective tissue strength and vestibular acuity of these athletes make the rest of us look weak and decrepit, haha.
All I know about physics and gravity is that it constantly works against me.
thats my cousin haha
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Wait….what?
It's very intresting, except that math part 😂
Me listening to her explain the physics but comprehending half of what she said: 🤔 “Hmmm yes, very science.”
Omg those are exactly the numbers I got for her centripetal acceleration. Wow. 🤭😅
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Would have been better if the calcs could be seen. Ditch the pink pen.
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Do American physicists use the metric system? 🤔
Both metric and imperial are taught in American science and engineering classes. Using both, I hate imperial for calculations.
Yes. It is taught and used universally.
How scientist choose a romantic partner 8:45
How is she doing all those math without a calculator?
I have no idea what she’s saying but I’m living for it 🙆🏻♂️
Math😜
High school jee mains problem
Why does gymnastics only use two axes instead of 3? Why does this analysis only use 2 and not three?
She is a genius
Mario could do just as good if not better
I'm just surprised that this American PhD student is actually using metric units! 😂😂😂
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They actually teach the metric system in higher level math and science starting in high school and throughout college. It is the standard.
@@naimahw635 Can confirm this. Metric system usage is common as early as middle school, though almost exclusively in science courses.
I wasn't expecting to watch equations solved in real time. Call me a pessimist but it felt like the main reason for doing so was to pad the length of the video.