Aims: To extend the intellectual development of master's level sports engineering students by exposing them to advanced aspects of sports engineering based on the understanding of core elements of science and engineering.
Learning Outcomes:
After taking the unit students should be able to apply level 3 engineering science to the analysis of the behaviour of sports equipment.
Skills:
Facilitated - intellectual, practical, key.
Content:The unit is delivered as a series of case studies in advanced sports engineering topics. By way of example these might include:
(1) The dynamic interaction between bats and balls, rackets and shuttlecocks, golf clubs and golf balls etc.
(2) Circular motion including the analysis of spinning wheels, bicycles on banking, speed skaters and hammer throwing, using gyroscopic principles, moment of inertia, etc.
(3) Force and energy control, including damping and impact in relation to shock absorption, mountain bike suspension, crumple zones, airbags, etc.
(4) Aerodynamics or hydrodynamics of balls in flight, javelins, shuttlecocks, hammers and swimmers, exploring the principles of drag, lift, the Bernoulli effect, boundary layers, etc.
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