Dunking 101
posted by LW, Tuesday, February 24, 2009
No word yet on whether Jim Harrick Jr. is the professor.
Just joking there.
Actually, a structural engineering class is taking on quite an interesting endeavor by measuring the intensity of dunks during games at Littlejohn Coliseum.
For more on that, check out the university release.
I thought it'd be a slam dunk, er, certainty that Trevor Booker would claim the most powerful dunk this season. Turns out it's Raymond Sykes.
“Ray Sykes had a nasty dunk at the East Carolina University game,” said Jonathan Cox, one of the students working on the project. “It peaked at a little over 30 g’s, one of the highest recorded so far. That’s awesome when you consider an earthquake’s ground motion produces accelerations around point five and one g.”
Good stuff.
LW
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Turns out there's a class on dunking at Clemson.
No word yet on whether Jim Harrick Jr. is the professor.
Just joking there.
Actually, a structural engineering class is taking on quite an interesting endeavor by measuring the intensity of dunks during games at Littlejohn Coliseum.
For more on that, check out the university release.
I thought it'd be a slam dunk, er, certainty that Trevor Booker would claim the most powerful dunk this season. Turns out it's Raymond Sykes.
“Ray Sykes had a nasty dunk at the East Carolina University game,” said Jonathan Cox, one of the students working on the project. “It peaked at a little over 30 g’s, one of the highest recorded so far. That’s awesome when you consider an earthquake’s ground motion produces accelerations around point five and one g.”
Good stuff.
LW
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