The Physics Of Figure Skating

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Much like student life, lifting another skater's ideas or music for one's own program is plagiarism. This is punishable by expulsion from the International Skating Union

Bibliography

• Bluhm, Hendrik. "Friction of ice measured using lateral force microscopy." Physical Review B 61.11 (2000): n. pag. Web. 19 Apr. 2017                                       
• Koning, Jos J. De, Gert De Groot, and Gerrit Jan Van Ingen Schenau. "Ice friction during speed skating." Journal of Biomechanics 25.6 (1992): 565-71. Web.               
• Dash, J. G. "The Premelting of Ice And Its Environmental Consequences." Reports On Progress In Physics 58 (1995): 115-67. Web.                                             
• Pena, Miguel. "What Causes Ice to be Slippery?" DUJS Online. N.p., 11 Apr. 2013. Web. 23 Apr. 201 <http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/2013/04/what-causes-ice-to-be-slippery/#.WPxFvjEzpaR>.  
• "Mean Body Segment Weights." Body Segment Data. ExRx, n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2017. <http://www.exrx.net/Kinesiology/Segments.html>.

Many exact photo URLs were not available because they came from archival footage from Olympic news coverage or newspaper photo archives:

1. The "Physics Of Ice Skating" and "Edge Jumps" pages have photos of Dick Button performing his Olympic or World Championship routine in 1952.
2. The "Types of Jumps" page has a photo of Tenley Albright jumping sometime in 1954
3. This page and the "Toe Jumps" page features Dorothy Hamill doing the Russian Splits, with the photos taken by John G. Zimmermann. My guess is that they were taken in the mid 1970s.
4. The introduction page to spins has a picture of me doing a one foot spin!
5. The spin mechanics page has a photo of Midori Ito doing a layback spin.

           (Fun fact: did you know that "midori" means "green" in Japanese?)