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Review by L. W. Moore, formerly, University of Kentucky
"Lind (emer., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) and Sanders (Univ. of New Mexico) offer this new edition, which retains the virtues noted in the review of the original (CH, Jun'97), derived from the serious application of physics to the enhancement of the understanding and experience of skiing. Skiers will find practical information with or without recourse to the (admittedly demanding) underlying physics. Teachers of physics will find an excellent primary or supplementary text detailing the physics of snow as well as a practical--dare we say, cool--demonstration of mechanical and aerodynamic principles. Historians of technology will find a case study of the application of scientific knowledge to the improvement of an originally "cut and try" technology. That prime demographic audience of physicists who also ski will find this book, naturally, definitive ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."
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Book Title: The Physics of Skiing
Book Subtitle: Skiing at the Triple Point
Authors: David A. Lind, Scott P. Sanders
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4345-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-00722-9Published: 18 March 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1834-5Published: 29 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4345-6Published: 29 June 2013
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 270
Topics: Physics, general, Human Physiology