Kinesiology 2241A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Racing Shell, Technical Group, Buoyancy
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Started in garage, this boat won silver in 1984. American and canadian teams always set records because of their boats goal: Wanted to be most technical group of people to grow a racing shell hurons today: Employs around 90 people, multimillion dollar, state of the art facility. All about doing things accurately with scientific foundation. Rowing is niche but not unique research associate: Prof is a research associate for this manufacturing company. Real life data collection and education product development: Build shell designed for one individual person. Computer printout that an engineer would sit and design. Don"t deal with physical object yet, just component of it. Process that after you design something, break down to million pixels. Every time you add stress to it, can determine the strain the object goes through. With the colours can see where strain will manifest. Go backwards and decide if you need to design things differently. Working with computer program at this point.