Class - Wednesday 10/17/2012

Matt and Jackson Presented today

Matt talked about the economics of sports players.
Jackson talked about Jose Conseco and his steroid abuse.
He applied the different aspects of PSY

• behavior
• cognitive
• personality

He then went through the different aspects and applied Consecos steroid use to them.

Class - Monday 10/15/2012

What is the goal of this class;

• Show competence in discipline 1
• Show competence in discipline 2
• Show the ability to integrate.

We need to complete an outline to set up a platform to work from.

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• State
• counties
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• cities
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• towns
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• neighborhoods

You use a hierarchy.

Class - 9/28/2012

Joe and Nick had a presentation on Martial arts.
Joe talked about kinematics
Nick covered Biomechanics

Class - Wednesday 09/26/2012

We had a class presentation today.
The group presented Golf.

Steve - Player Attributes

Wesley - Equipment

Matt - Swing


The rest of the group will be going Friday, and also the next group.

My group which is Football helmets presents Monday.

Class - Friday 09/21/2012

Plagiarism: using the words or thoughts of someone else without giving credit.

"Do your own freaking work." Martha

Just lie two people can work together and create something like Google, your two disciplines can work together and help you develop your ideas.



Jericho was assigned the task in class to decide what topics we would choose for our assignments.

• Basketball
• Football
• Golf 
• Baseball

We were grouped into groups of 3 and one group of 4.
My group is Football.

Monday will be a lab day, our group will present the following Monday.

Class - Wednesday 09/19/2012

Today we had our final group presenting.
Sports and Physics

Mallory - Basketball
Mallory went over the different statistics and how they are improved through analysis. We talked about free throws in the NBA and how in 1960 they were 68% and in 1965 it was 69%.  They wanted to know from that point why it has not gone up.
A mechanical engineer developed what he said was the perfect free throw.

• Aim at the backboard
• back spin 3 revolutions
• 52 degree angle
• This is for a 6'6'' player
• Players can increase accuracy by 20%

Nick - Golf
Nick went through newtons laws and how they apply to the golf swing. The golf swing can be broken down and analyzed. They take pictures during a swing and then can see how accuartely you match the perfect swing.



Anna - NFL
Anna talked about the NFL and applied Newtons laws to it. She took the pythagorean theorem and applied it to a sideline run  and how the defense needs to calculate the C^2  to make sure they are where they need to be. Then also talked about what mass is needed to stop the force. She also talked about the football and how cars resemble the same shape.

Chris - Soccer
Chris showed a video on the soccer goalie. The time the goalie has to react is such very tiny window.

Lexie - Baseball
Lexie talked about the different pitches and why they occur. She talked about how the air resistance and the stitching on the ball create these effects.



For Next class bring a scholarly article.

Class - Monday 09/17/2012

We talked about our Group Presentations and how they could be improved.

• We need to be very clear on what discipline we are using.
• For our personal presentations we need to be very clear
• Need to know the theories and theorists of your discipline
• Approach your senior project with clearly defined theories in business and IT.

Research Methods that each discipline uses. Approach questions using this.

Business

• Case Study
• Qualitative and Quantitative

IT

• Scientific method; Hypothesis, testing...
• Theories of computing

VT

• Polls and groups to test certain visual elements.

Friday we need to have a topic. This topic will be reseached as a group.