I’ve only been skating twice in my life and both times I just fell on my ass trying to even stand up.

How do you do flips and shit while balancing on razor blades against a near frictionless surface? I don’t think humans were meant to do that shit.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    The angular velocity of a figure skater, weighing 50 kg, is 3π/2 radians/sec. Assuming a frictionless surface...

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      Is this a reference to 2005 American teen sports film Ice Princess starring Michelle Trachtenberg

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        No, it's just a reference to physics problems that assume a frictionless surface, a massless wire, etc. for the sake of simplicity.

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          3 years ago

          I asked cause that movie is about another physics dork who decides to do figure skating, I haven't thought about it in 15 years but that reminded me