From Deseret News archives:
Physics is big factor in outcome of U. vs. Y.
Isaac Newton, one physicist equally intrigued by unpredictable bounces, said about three centuries ago that gravity and motion follow strict behavior patterns but can be wildly unpredictable under the variables of mass, force, momentum, torque and velocity.
Something he didn't foresee is what happens when a football is put in motion, but he couldn't have developed a better way to show off universal gravitation and the three laws of motion he formulated into the basis for classical mechanics and modern engineering.
He would have never taken sides, but perhaps it's proper to invoke the possibility of larger things being under way the day he almost got his bell rung by a red thing coming out of the blue.
He put it this way: An object in uniform motion tends to stay in uniform motion unless acted upon by a net external force. Taking his second and third laws a step further, experts on Newton and the physics of football Timothy Gay of Nebraska and David Haase from North Carolina have some decidedly unbiased football footnotes to today's program:
• If per chance University of Utah running back Darrell Mack gets squashed between Y. linebackers David Nixon and Matt Bauman colliding at full-speed, the impact is not unlike the booing fan trying to catch a bowling ball dropped from the top of the end-zone bleachers.
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