Math and Graph Models Behind the Olympic Paul Vault Jump

Introduction: Today scientists put acquired data into a form of a graph. This said graph is designed to help make predictions and furthermore, study and understand the experiment and its contents at hand. The Graphing and Estimating lab involves just that. The lab is designed to collect data from several tests involving burn time of a candle.

The 1972 Olympics basketball finals in Munich remains one of the most controversial Olympic games in history. Controversies of this match took both a sporting and political angle at the time because the two finalists, team USA and team USSR, came from a background of political competitions by virtue of them being the two most powerful nations on earth. The controversy happened in three “final three seconds.” Whatever happened to the medals remain equally controversial.

The first person on the list is Jim Thorpe. He was born in 1888 and in Prague Indian Territory which is actually known as Oklahoma. He was known for

Figure 1 Concentration of glucose relative to elution volume. Graph plotted using Excel. The equation of the line is represented by a 6th order polynomial (y = -4E-08x6 + 8E-06x5 - 0.0006x4 + 0.0184x3 - 0.2952x2 + 2.0705x - 4.6828) with a regression R² = 0.75191.

There are quite a few factors that shaped the modern-day Olympics from 1892 to 2002. Pierre de Coubertin states that he wanted to create the Olympics to spread world peace. He does this by substituting war for friendly sports competitions (doc 1). Of course, there were some bumps in the road while trying to achieve this utopia. Some factors that have changed the Olympics are the allowing of women being able to compete in the Olympics, women’s suffrage, nationalism, wars, and economic conditions (doc 2-7).

1) Which type of function (linear, exponential, or cubic) do you believe will best fit the data? Support your choice.

For the first five data point, the value of exponential model is close to the actual value. However, the exponential model didn’t work well for the

This paper comprises an appreciation of data representation, its visualization, an outline description of behavior, plus an indication of the use of the equation in engineering.

Most people would classify the Berlin Olympic Games of 1936 as just another Olympics, and they would be right because the Games did have the classic triumphs and upsets that occur at all Olympic Games. What most people did not see, behind the spectacle of the proceedings, was the effect the Nazi party had on every aspect of the Games including the results. Despite Nazi Germany’s determination to come off as the superior nation in the 1936 Olympics, their efforts were almost crushed by the very people they were trying to exclude.

     Another Track and Field event is the long jump. This event differed very greatly from the jumping we see today. The jumpers would have a running start and be holding weights in their hands for momentum purposes. The use of the weights, which were swung about during the run and jump, caused the jumper to have a much larger distance than the athletes of the modern Olympics. In fact, the ancient jumping events are highly controversial because of the ludicrous records found about the distance of the jumps in ancient Greece. One record states that a contestant jumped 55 feet. The modern record for the running long jump is near 30 feet and it seems to many track and field experts that it would be quite impossible for anyone to jump 55 feet, even with the help of an impetus. Some

There is a surprising link between sports analytics and several topics we have discussed in class. Those including, the gathering of weather data, predicting hurricanes, tsunamis etc. Many scientists use analytics on a daily basis to predict weather patterns and to compare data. Just like in sports analytics, the use of numbers and statistics can be used to solve potential trends and to analyze the topic at hand. The concept of analytics is relevant in both sports as well as in scientific studies.

"Equipment and History." Olympics | Olympic Medals Results Videos Sports News | IOC. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2013.

The world record happened 2010 for the Winter Olympics. They were originally built to carry passengers around. The bobsled were originally built in Switzerland. The year that they built the bobsled in is 1924. The bobsled was also built to carry items. Germany holds the most gold medals in the sport. Russia is pretty good at the sport to. America is also pretty good at this sport to.

The study of altitude training was found during and after the 1968 Olympics, which took place in Mexico City, which has an elevation 2,240 metres (7,349 ft) above sea level. It was during these Olympic Games that endurance events saw significant record finishes and anaerobic, sprint events broke all types of records. (http://www.olympic.org/mexico-1968-summer-olympics)

In Mexico City, 1986, with two scratches and only one attempt left Bob Beamon raced down the track, beginning a jump that would have worldwide repercussions for the next thirty years (ESPN). Bob Beamon, running “more like a sprinting ostrich than a gazelle” jumped out of the sandpit, setting a personal best by over two feet and a new world record (Daniels). The jump was so far, and so unexpected that the officials only extend the sandpit to the previous world record and used a measuring unit to match. This new world record set by Bob Beamon was just one of many new world records set in the Olympic games of 1986. In this historic Olympics, a new world record was set in two jumping events and in all sprinting events