LEADER 03210nam 22005535 450 001 9910851982503321 005 20250618123049.0 010 $a3-031-54082-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-54082-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31282120 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31282120 035 $a(CKB)31517572100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-54082-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931517572100041 100 $a20240416d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBe a Champion $e40 Facts You Didn't Know About Sports and Science /$fby Amandine Aftalion 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Copernicus,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (184 pages) 225 1 $aCopernicus Books, Sparking Curiosity and Explaining the World,$x2731-8990 311 08$a3-031-54081-6 327 $aPreface -- 1. Running -- 2. Throwing -- 3. Balls -- 4. Water, Wind and Cold -- 5. Rotating -- 6. Counting. 330 $aWhy do you lean in a bend? Why does a sprinter slow down before the finish line? Why do golf balls have dimples? Why do you swim better slightly underwater? Why, on a bike, the faster you go, the more stable you are? Why shouldn?t you rely on doping tests too much? Is there a law of evolution of records? These are some of the 40 questions that Amandine Aftalion answers in this book using simple physics and mathematics, and some humor. Not only will it allow you to improve yourself in sports, but it will also give way to understanding how champions do. An easy book to read and the must to have if you are a sports addict or if you watch sports on TV and ask yourself ?why??. Amandine Aftalion is a French mathematician. She is a CNRS senior scientist and graduated from École normale supérieure in Paris. She has given talks all over the world, as a specialist of models coming from low temperature physics. She has written a book on vortices in Bose?Einstein condensates. More recently, she has used energy minimization to study an optimal control problem coming from human energy: optimizing running. She has written papers on sports aimed at coaches. Part of her latest results have inspired the first chapter of this book. She is the producer and director of a French YouTube channel for the popularization of mathematics, Videodimath, elected as one of the 5 best French YouTube channels for popular mathematics. 410 0$aCopernicus Books, Sparking Curiosity and Explaining the World,$x2731-8990 606 $aMathematics 606 $aSports sciences 606 $aMathematics in Popular Science 606 $aSport Science 606 $aEsports$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aMathematics. 615 0$aSports sciences. 615 14$aMathematics in Popular Science. 615 24$aSport Science. 615 7$aEsports 676 $a510 700 $aAftalion$b Amandine$0477020 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910851982503321 996 $aBe a Champion$94261508 997 $aUNINA