
These videos, created by NBC in partnership with the National Science Foundation, feature interviews with athletes and coaches who explain the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics behind the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The science is broken down by capturing the athletes' movements with a state-of-the-art, high-speed camera called the Phantom Cam, which has the ability to capture movement at rates of up to 1500 frames per second. This allows frame-by-frame illustrations of Newton's Three Laws of Motion, the Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum, friction, drag, speed, velocity, and other scientific concepts. The transcripts are viewable by clicking on the tab on the left side of the video viewer. The videos average about four minutes in length and feature the athletes involved in the individual sports as well as interviews with scientists who explain some of the scientific concepts involved in the sports. The ten titles in the series are:
- Stability & Vibration Damping in Alpine Skiing
- Shaun White & Engineering the Half Pipe
- Shani Davis & Engineering Competition Suits
- Science of Snow
- Science of Ice
- Physics of Figure Skating
- Olympic Movement & Robotic Design
- Nick Goepperd & the Physics of Slopestyle Skiing
- Injury & Recovery
- Building Faster & Safer Bobsleds