This post is to cellebrate the 50
anniversary or Mexico 68 Olympic Games, fist Latin American country to be an
olympic host.
Athletics has
had several tests in the Olympic Games editions since Athens 1896. One of these
tests is the high jump in which the athlete tries to exceed a horizontal bar
that rests on two supports. From the point of view of physics, the jump movement
can be understood with the concept of the center of mass which is a geometric
point that represents the movement of the body.
By getting that the
center of mass overcomes the bar so the body can also overcome it, a good
height jump is achieved. Using the technique of scissors and other techniques,
the center of mass must exceed by much the height of the bar to be able to jump
it, but in the technique known as "the Fosbury flop", the center of
mass is outside and below the body during the jump and for this reason, the
body can overcome more easily.
