Physicists crack kung fu - and wood!

**Gav** · 08-03-2005 12:56 PM

I've just read this article ( Kung Fu? Meet Physics) on the BBC News wesbite. Now this is the kind of PHD I would be happy to study for!

**Inquartata** · 08-03-2005 02:23 PM

Here's some more:

http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/journal/Volume1.pdf#search='physics%20of%20karate'

http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/journal/Volume1.pdf

There was also an article in Scientific American some years ago, but their archives on the net are "subscription only".

**Gav** · 08-03-2005 02:30 PM

oops! wrong forum.

**ThatReallyHurt** · 08-04-2005 10:15 PM

I wonder how many experimental subjects made trips to the doctor whilst attempting to prove that thesis...

Neat link!

**Westley** · 08-04-2005 11:57 PM

That's old stuff- I think the first guy to talk about stuff like that was, well I can't remember his name but I can't help but remember him as looking like Napoleon Dynamite- mind you this was a long time before the movie.

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