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PH201: The Importance Of Physics In Football

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Throughout my life the phrase “physics is all around you” has been thrown around frequently. Especially in the context of my football playing years, I thought physics was simple. For example, my half-witted high school offensive line coach, who I am pretty sure did not go to college, used to scream about leverage and keeping your center of mass low to the ground. In the offseason he wanted us to bulk up because he knew newton’s second law that states force equals mass times acceleration. This did not mean that my friends and I sat in the weight room drawing free body diagrams on how to impose the greatest force with our hands on our opponents, but instead it meant that every day after school we would lift and immediately go find something to eat in order to increase our body …show more content…

My coach’s crude interpretation was not wrong, but a rather simplistic approach. As a result it led me to believe that physics was just a science based on something along the lines of the result of two blocks smashing into each other and trying to figure how far they bounce off each other. It wasn’t until PH201 that I realized that physics is, in my opinion, a supernatural science. I say this because PH201 is the first class that I have taken that I can say bridged the gap between me simply learning objective science material, to not only understanding the material and regurgitating it on a WPR, but also seeing how it applies to my future career as an officer. Physics should be included in West Point’s curriculum for the real life applications and lessons that cadets learn which are vitally crucial to the cadet’s success as officers and the reputation of the

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