Question

One of the great upcoming sports in the Olympics is the sport of curling. Write a brief essay on the uses of momentum collisions in curling. Be sure to discuss the importance of massive stones and of going last.

Answer 1

Curling shows physics in motion. Curling is a sport in which two teams alternate sliding smoothed stone pucks down an ice rink court with the intent to seat their stone closest to the center of the target (called the house).Pucks will travel in a straingt lind at a constant speed.''Since the frictional forces on the ice are minimal.This is example of the law of inertia. When the puck collides with another puck on the ice the collision is said to be elastic. And in elastic collisions the momentum is conserved. '' When hitting a ball it is lossing momentum. The other ball being hit is gaining momentum. The more massive the stone and speed at which it travels dictates it's momentum. It is frictional unless it by another object. If the stone hits another stone, it transfers some of its momentum in an elastic collision to that stone and the original stone is deflected in a calculable manner.

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Answer 2

Law of inertia and conservation of momentum and collisions are part of the curling as a sport art. In curling the puck will continue to travel in a straight line and at constant speed, since the frictional forces on the ice are minimal.This is example of the law of inertia.
When the puck collides with another puck on the ice the collision is said to be elastic. And in elastic collisions the momentum is conserved.