Olympian Effort: NBC's The Science of the Olympic Winter Games

NBC Learn (the educational arm of NBC News), NBC Olympics and the National Science Foundation teamed up on 16-part video series The Science of the Olympic Winter Games, which was narrated by NBC News anchor Lester Holt and is available on a dedicated page, as well as via the sites for NBC Learn and the NSF.

The Science of the Olympic Winter Games seeks to answer questions including how angular momentum helps figure skater Rachael Flatt achieve the perfect triple toe loop, how elastic collision allows hockey player Julie Chu to convert a slap shot and how Newton’s Three Laws of Motion propel short-track speed skater J.R.

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