Skiing in the Alps

While skiing in the Swiss Alps last winter, I got into a discussion about speed. Following my engineering knowledge, your skiing speed does not depend on your own mass. Without the intention to offend anyone, skiing is basically a form of falling at an angle. We can build a model based on Newton’s second law where acceleration times mass is equal to the resultant force. We can see that mass ($m$) will drop out of the equation:...

<span title='2022-09-23 11:37:35 +0100 +0100'>September 23, 2022</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;907 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Joost