Introduction
Hello, you have either intentionally or
unintentially stumbled upon The Golf Course's
Physics Section. By now, you know that The Golf
Course is a web site designed to promote the game
of golf, and as an educational resourse to show
that golf can be seen in a variety of avenues of
our lives. This particular section (the Physics
Section) shows how golf is interwoven into
physics. (For those students out there ... I bet
you thought that physics was useless!) Anyway, we
have a few sections to the physics portion of the
web site. They are outline for you below. Text Book
For those of you who haven't yet had the pleasure
of taking a physics course in your school, we
(the creators of this site) wrote a physics
textbook so that you would not be left out. We
wrote this text book the way that students would
understand the material (because we too are
students) and we also know how much more
enjoyable it is to actually understand the
material!
For those of you who find yourselves in the
position of "I took the course ... I really
did! But to tell you the truth, I just don't
remember it at all!" Well, you too can
benefit from the book because it will be like a
little refresher course!
Algebra
We know that sometimes it is helpful to have a
little refresher course in math before engaging
in physics, so we took the time to build that for
you. There's even a brief review of necessary
math skills necessary to use the equations
presented in the book!
Labs
The Labs section is a section designed for
students to learn how to mathematically
manipulate information to determine how objects
in the game of golf react. Students will
reinforce their physics abilities while learning
how much force that a golf club must exert on a
golf ball to get the ball to go in the hole, or
how far a ball will travel in the air. These
interactive labs are built in two forms. The
first is java, for everyone who has the ability
to run java. Also, the labs have been written in
cgi, so that those who can not run java can still
participate. (I understand how annoying it is to
have a site built around java and not be able to
participate!)
Topics
The topics section allow for you to expand your
horizons by taking the knowledge aquired in the
textbook and in the labs sections by writing
articles for other people to read about the
physics of golf. We have written the first few
and it us up to you to add to this section and
keep it growing, so show us what you know!
Teacher's
Corner
This section is for teachers. The Golf Course
Team designed this site so that it could be used
in the classroom environment. We worked closely
with our coaches to design suggested uses for
this site in the classroom. Please stop in and
check out how this site can be used in schools.
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