Skiing

Helmets are extremely important in protecting Winter Olympic competitors.

Olympian slopestyle skier Nick Goepper explains the physics behind the sport.

The chemistry and materials science used to create aerodynamic competition suits is explained.

Short track speed skating, the fastest self-propelled sport in the Winter Games, illustrates all of Newton's First Three Laws of Motion.

The slapshot is explained by Thomas Humphrey, Kathy FLores, and Olympic hockey players Julie Chue and Zach Parise.

Skates used by Olympians are custom-engineered by materials scientists to meet the demands for each sport.

The unique surface of ice allows the slide and glide of winter sports to happen.

Sending the 42-lb. granite curling stone down a long sheet of ice toward the center of a bull's-eye target is all about friction and surface physics.

A figure skaters center of mass affects their balance and stability of every step, jump, spin, and lift.

How snow forms and reacts is an essential part of the Winter Olympic games.

The organization of human cells through training, exercise and "muscle memory" produce the fantastic range of Olympic motion.

A downhill ski race is a tour de force--emphasis on force.