Researchers model physics of the pumping technique used to achieve air on a skateboard half-pipe
(a) Simulations for the optimal pumping motion of a skateboarder on a half-pipe. (b) Height and acceleration for different pumping strategies. Credit: Physical Review Research (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033132 A team of engineers and mathematicians from ETH Zürich, working with colleagues from The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and ATR Institute International, both in Japan, has successfully modeled the