How hard does star US basketball player Kobe Bryant dunk? Add aerospace tech to a basketball net and you can find out, right down to the joule.
The Slam Force Net, by MIT researchers Dan Novy and Santiago Alfaro, quantifies dunks. The pair replaced the string net with carbon-impregnated silicon rubber used for O-ring drive-belts in the aerospace industry. Its electrical resistance changes as it stretches; this change is measured to derive a calculation of how much energy, in joules, the dunk adds.
By: Tom Cheshire, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/11/play/high-speed-hoops
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