A person running right useng bolt on te flat field, will run 200 yards at a speed of about 20 to 25 miles per hour. Then it's a matter of trying to figure out whether you can plant your foot and rotate your speed fast enough. And so that's another physics problem. Fortunately, human beings are great at physics. Not necessarily great at writing down answers on a piece of paper, but great at sort of calculating where our foot needs to be at any given time to reach the ground.
How fast does cheese roll down a hill? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly walk us through the physics behind the weirdest sports: cheese rolling, belly flopping, face slapping and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
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