The Science of the Olympic Winter Games
Olympic caliber, high-interest, high-impact short videos make key concepts like inertia, velocity, and momentum meaningful and exciting for your students.
- Grades: 6–8, 9–12
Through interviews with athletes, coaches, and scientists, NBC Learn's 16-part series unravels the physics, biology, chemistry, and math behind the Olympic Winter Games. The Science of the Olympic Winter Games is made possible through a partnership with the National Science Foundation.
- Key Concepts:
- Angular momentum
- Torque
- Moment of inertia
- Contact twisting
- Key Concepts:
- Vertical velocity
- Angular momentum
- The law of conservation of angular momentum
- Laws of projectile motion
- Key Concepts:
- How safety helmets dissipate energy
- Physics of collisions
- Elastic collision
- Inelastic collision
- Key Concepts:
- ATP
- Muscle contractions
- Energy conversions
- Aerobic capacity
- Key Concepts:
- Force
- Newton’s 2nd law (force + object = acceleration)
- Gravity
- Friction
- Key Concepts:
- Cell movement
- Muscle contractions
- Muscle memory
- Muscle fibers and motors
- Key Concepts:
- Motion
- Instantaneous velocities
- Arithmetic (of the judges scoring)
- Calculus
- Key Concepts:
- Newton’s 1st law (object at rest tends to remain at rest; object in motion tends to remain in motion)
- Newton’s 2nd law (force + mass = acceleration)
- Newton’s 3rd law (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction)
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- Subjects:Winter, Winter Themes
