Physics race pits UsainBolt Against Jurassic Park dinosaur
Scott Lee is a physics professor at the University of Toledo who has developed numerous learning activities to help intro-level students get enthusiastic about the topic. His latest innovative activity, published in, by AIP Publishing, poses the question: Is Usain Bolt faster than a 900-pound dinosaur?
"A number of physics majors have, over the years, taken this general education course just because they think dinosaurs are so cool," he said."I then realized that physics majors would be excited to work on dinosaur examples of physics principles."The Physics TeacherTo make the exercise work in introductory physics, Lee needed to find just the right dinosaur.
The activity includes discussion on Newton's second law, where acceleration is determined by a combination of mass and force. Being smaller, for example, gives Bolt an early advantage.
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