Physics is involved with all forms of athletics. This website specializes on how Roller Hockey, Street Hockey, Ice Hockey, and off-season training for these sports are affected by physics. Momentum, impulse, collisions, work, energy, projectiles, and Newton’s laws of motion will be the aspects of physics primarily demonstrated.

BASICS: Distance=(Rate)(Time), so over a certain distance (say, the front blue line to the net) the faster or slower the puck is shot, the sooner or later it will reach the net, respectively. This is called a direct variation.

The faster or slower a puck is shot (accelerated) depends almost entirely on the amount of force exerted on the puck by the shooter. This ratio is also an example of a direct variation. The resulting equation is: F=MA, or Force=(Mass)(Acceleration).

To discover what my personal interest is in hockey, and a new thing I learned about it as I was producing this page, click here.

Here are some other hockey-related links: www.nhl.com, www.rollerwarehouse.com, www.canstar.com, www.hockeydigest.com.

For more information on the relationship between physics and roller hockey, click on the pucks to your left.

By: Brandon Guerrero
6/2/98
Period 6