Speed Skating | Science of the Winter Olympics

The U.S. speed skating team has two best hopes against a powerful South Korean team that took three- of-a-possible-four golds in Torino: Apolo Ohno and J.R. Celski--an 18-year-old World Champion in his first Olympics. Speed skating is all about force and movement--what, in physics, are known as Newton's First Three Laws of Motion. Celski and physicist George Tuthill of Plymouth State University explain.
NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, has teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to produce Science of the Olympic Winter Games, a 16-part video series that explores the science behind individual Olympic events, including Downhill and Aerial Skiing, Speed Skating and Figure Skating, Curling and Hockey, and Ski Jumping, Bobsledding and Snowboarding.
For more, go to www.nsf.gov/news/special_repor...

[@tigerjonn]

Short Track is the most exciting winter olympic sport IMO.

[@im2cow4u]

my physics teacher would love this video. Good thing I"m not going to show him it, lol

[@liljahn24]

This is really cool! JR is an amazing athlete!

[@MapleStoryGrl]

This made science really cool and interesting !

[@H3rBz92]

Wow amazing!

[@marimoedmond]

💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@SciTechVault]

Tha'ts really cool!

[@martinli5499]

ty fam

[@bigtomo69er]

Steven Bradbury is the greatest speed skater of all time!!

[@renaepasse8462]

Very Interesting 😍😍😍

[@kdxrgx]

He's actually 19......

[@RocketTWORussia]

Firgure skating!!

[@kdxrgx]

@KatherineRose21 Just saying..

[@PipinhoSnow]

:)

[@laronda10]

this was stupid and obvious stuff, they hardly talked about the lean and form the most important part of speed skating

[@americanpride9733]

So this is incredible and exciting but nascar is “boring” and “all they do is turn left” okayyyy