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Why does a high jump cross bar fall off?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

J.E. Drummond
J.E. Drummond*
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia
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Extract

There is one obvious answer to this question and other less obvious answers which Twill discuss and this also gives me an opportunity to write a few words about modelling and dimensional analysis.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 65 , Issue 433 , October 1981 , pp. 182 - 185
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1981

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