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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Geometric Shapes: Spheres, Ellipses & Prolate Spheroids
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Software & Applications, Measurement & Geometry, Science and 8 additional..NBC's Lester Holt explores the prolate spheroid, the three-dimensional shape of a football, and how it helps an NFL quarterback ...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Newton's Second Law of Motion
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Science and 6 additional..NBC's Lester Holt and former NFL kicker, Morten Andersen, look at what's really behind powerful field goal kicks — Newton's Seco...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Newton's Third Law of Motion
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Energy & Work, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Chemistry and 12 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at Newton's Third Law of Motion and the role that conservation of momentum plays whenever players collid...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Newton's First Law of Motion
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, People in Science, Sports and Competition and 4 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at Newton's First Law of Motion and the role that unbalanced forces play whenever a ball carrier goes he...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Torque & Center of Mass
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Energy & Work, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Engineering & Design and 6 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at how the physics concepts of torque and center of mass are applied in football by some of the games mo...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0