Physics and dance /
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Principles of Movement; 1 Gravity; Tuning in to Gravity; The Universal Law of Gravitation; Balancing; Center of Mass; Balancing Together; Area of Support; The Dance of the Future; Interdisciplinary Thinking; 2 Force; Newton's 1st Law of Motion; Newton's 2nd Law of Motion; The Plié; Down and Up; Free Body Diagrams; A Cultural Force Diagram; Force Plates and the Plié; Newton's 3rd Law of Motion; How Do We Move?; Everyday Action; When Is Walking More Than Walking?; 3 Motion; Dancing Feet; Taking Off and Landing
- Projectile MotionEquations of Constant Acceleration; Jumping Up and Out; Calculating a Jump; Zero Velocity; 4 Friction; Improvising with Friction; Kinetic Friction; Sur?ng; Static Friction; Calculating Frictional Forces; If People Were Boxes; Composing with Friction; Tango in the World; 5 Momentum; Catching a Wave; Calculating Momentum; Conservation of Momentum; A Momentum Movement Phrase; Conservation of Momentum in a System; The Momentum of Two (or Three); 6 Turning; The Pirouette; Rotational Motion; The Lunge; Torque; The Arms; Moment of Inertia; The Turn; Angular Momentum
- Kinesthetic IntelligencePart II: Energy, Space, Time; 7 Energy; Kinetic Energy; Energy as Form; Gravitational Potential Energy; Falling; Spring Potential Energy; Mixing Energies; The Energy of Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum; From Marking to Attack; Quantized Energy and Bohr's Atom; Energy Images; Dark Energy; Real Versus Apparent Energy; E = mc2; 8 Space; Dancing Cells; A Glimpse into the Microscopic World; The Geography of the Body; Dancers in the Universe; Room Writing; Postulates of Special Relativity; Special Relativity: Length Contraction; Absolute to Relative Choreographic Space
- Stage SpacePerspective; 9 Time; Special Relativity: Time Dilation; Spacetime; Cunningham's "Space, Time and Dance"; General Relativity; Extended Duration; The Lifetime of Muons; Rates of Change; Gravitational Waves; Ghostcatching; The Story of the Universe; Perception; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Workbook Physics Problems; Choreographic Studies; Notes; Index