Articles liés à The Physics of Skiing: Skiing at the Triple Point

The Physics of Skiing: Skiing at the Triple Point - Couverture rigide

Lind, David A; Sanders, Scott P

 
9780387007229: The Physics of Skiing: Skiing at the Triple Point
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0387007229 ISBN 13 : 9780387007229
Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2004

Synopsis

The new edition will include a chapter on biomechanics & physiology of skiing. Other chapters will be revised and brought up to date. The discussion of alpine skiing will include a discussion of the new "turning" skiis.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Just over ten years ago when the first drafts of this book were being written, and even more so a few years after that as it was making its way through the publication process, alpine skiing was experiencing what eventually became a complete revolution in equipment and tech­ nique: "shaped" or "parabolic" skis completely took over the market, and even relatively beginning skiers expected to carve graceful turns as they schussed down the slopes. Re-reading our work with an eye to revision, we have been surprised to see how our focus on the physics of skiing in the first edition al­ lowed us to recognize the fundamental importance of what were then quite novel changes in equipment and technique. The essence of the enhancement offered by shaped skis is their greater sidecut radius. Our original discussion (then and now in Chapters 3 and 4) of the crucial role that a ski's sidecut plays in carving a turn caused us to write, for the most part, as if the shaped ski had always been in existence. Sim­ ilarly, our interest in the geometry ofthe sidecut allowed us to discuss snowboards in some detail as well, for the key to their ability to "shred" down the mountain is their deep sidecut.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0387007229
ISBN 13 
9780387007229
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
270
Coordonnées du fabricant
Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH
ProductSafety@springernature.com

Europaplatz 3
Heidelberg
69115
Allemagne