Archive for June, 2012
So what's the problem?
The definition of a goal has been clear ever since football codified its rules in the mid-19th century: for a goal to be scored, all of the ball must cross all of the line. Most disputed goals result from defenders illegally returning the ball into play after it ...
Learn how Maple is helping Professor Roger Kraft to teach maths students more effectively at Purdue University Calumet.
and control hardware sped the development of the RiceWrist, a device to help rehabilitate people with spinal-cord injuries.
Thanks to the Quanser hardware and software, our process could be iterative and produce the best output possible in a short amount of time."
Dr Marcis O'Malley, Rice University
Dr Ken Bray, a theoretical physicist and a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath, UK
Disputed goals are a major headache in professional football. This new white paper by Dr Ken Bray, the Bath-based theoretical physicist, uses Mathcad to look at one particular type where a ball, bouncing on the ground after its impact with the crossbar, spins back into play.
Read how Physicist Ken Bray and biomechanics expert David Kerwin at Bath's Department of Sport and Exercise Science used [Mathcad] computer modelling to help explain why England's World Cup star, David Beckham, is so effective at free kicks.
DPA on the net, June 19, 2012
Disputed goals are a major headache in professional football. This case study looks at one particular type where a ball, bouncing on the ground after its impact with the crossbar, spins back into play. An experimental rig was used to derive the critical parameters for this behaviour and [Mathcad] mathematical ...
Now available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts), DSP Development Corporation’s (Newton, MA) DADiSP/WAV has been updated to fully integrate with the DADiSP Worksheet providing a complete digital audio data analysis, display and processing environment. DADiSP/WAV allows the user to quickly read, write and edit digital audio data from WAV format ...
Bringing you truly portable data acquisition, Measurement Computing Corporation (Norton, MA), has released its fully rechargeable USB-525 remote data logger assistant. Available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts) it is now possible to configure and retrieve data from the USB-500 Series Loggers without even having a PC to hand.
The ultra-portable USB-525 ...
specifically targeting younger middle school studentts...Quanser had already created it and the device was ideal."
Dr Anthony Ingraffea, Professor at the Cornell School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Measurement Computing Corporation (Norton, MA), the value leader in data acquisition, has announced the release of the PCIe-DAS1602/16 multifunction DAQ board for the PCI Express bus. Available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts) the 16-bit PCIe-DAS1602/16 offers 16 analogue inputs, a 100kS/s sample rate, 32 digital I/O, two analogue outputs and ...
When is a goal not a goal?
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