OK, so here's a question for the science people out there.
Whenever I warm up with my power pulls on a clean sheet of ice, I am visually treated to my tracing that looks like a lovely sine wave. I'd really like to know the physics behind it. E.g., what equations of motion dictate that a power pull tracing is a sine function? Is it really sine or another function?
I know there're lots of physics-y things out there that explain jumps and spins using moment of inertia etc etc. But I don't know anything to explain power pulls. Would appreciate any insight or references!
(Yeah, I'm a math geek... sine functions are as beautiful to me as Mao or Kostner's skating...)
Whenever I warm up with my power pulls on a clean sheet of ice, I am visually treated to my tracing that looks like a lovely sine wave. I'd really like to know the physics behind it. E.g., what equations of motion dictate that a power pull tracing is a sine function? Is it really sine or another function?
I know there're lots of physics-y things out there that explain jumps and spins using moment of inertia etc etc. But I don't know anything to explain power pulls. Would appreciate any insight or references!
(Yeah, I'm a math geek... sine functions are as beautiful to me as Mao or Kostner's skating...)