{"id":13393,"date":"2015-02-01T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13393"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:02:44","slug":"how-to-understand-the-super-bowl-with-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/how-to-understand-the-super-bowl-with-physics","title":{"rendered":"How to Understand the Super Bowl\u2014With Physics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/rhettallain\/\" rel=\"author\">Rhett Allain<\/a> \u2014 Wired<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Super Bowl isn\u2019t just a football game. It\u2019s an opportunity to discuss physics. Let\u2019s look at some of the interesting physics concepts that go with the game.<\/p>\n<h2>Deflategate and Ball Pressure<\/h2>\n<p>I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m getting a little weary of the whole \u201cdeflategate\u201d thing. In case you missed the controversy, it appears that some of the footballs in the playoff game between the Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots had below-acceptable inflation pressure. Now, it\u2019s true that if you put a balloon outside on a cold day, the balloon deflates with the colder temperature. Could something like this have happened to the deflategate balls? The answer is: probably not. If you want more details, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/football-physics-and-the-science-of-deflategate-36581\">Chad Orzel has an excellent piece that looks at the physics of pressurized football<\/a>. He shows experimentally that a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2015\/01\/23\/tom-brady-and-the-ideal-gas-law-physics-of-deflategate\/\">ball in a 50\u00b0F football game wouldn\u2019t drop 2 PSI due solely to the temperature change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/01\/understand-super-bowlwith-physics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rhett Allain \u2014 Wired The Super Bowl isn\u2019t just a football game. It\u2019s an opportunity to discuss physics. Let\u2019s look at some of the interesting physics concepts that go with the game. Deflategate and Ball Pressure I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m getting a little weary of the whole \u201cdeflategate\u201d thing. In case [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64842,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions\/64842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}