Welcome to Gunner's Math5010 Homepage!!

Here is a little about me. I am a senior at USU studying Math/Stat composite education. I will be student teaching Fall of 2020 and hope to coach football along with being a math or stat teacher. I love to ski as you could probably tell from the attached picture. I also just proposed to my girlfriend last night, which is why this assignment is late :(. But oh well, love conquers all, ya?

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Now that we have made it through what seems like the longest semester in recorder history, let's talk about something near and dear to my heart SHREDDING THE GNAR!
To Begin our journey, Here are a list of helpful links that will send you to differnt portions of my project.

Introduction and History

Semester Project Skiing has been a passion of mine since I was just 12 years old. Every year since then, I have been a season pass-holder at one of more ski resorts in Utah and have gone frequently each year. I believe everyone who has the means to do so should try skiing. The end goal of this research paper is to give each reader the introduction needed to pick their skis, understand some of the physics that are at play, and then finally, how to take flight.

Skiing is believed to have been first invented nearly 10,000 years ago in the Altay region of Asia, which now lies near the borders of Russia, Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan (History of Skiing - The Story with Great Photos 2020). Pictured above is Ullr, Norse god of skiing and winter, who was also a skilled bowman and stepson to Thor (N/A, Ullr 2020). Skiing was continuously utilized between 8,000 B.C all the way until 1700s A.D. throughout northern Eurasia primarily as a form of transportation and a mechanism of hunting as well as war, even being employed as recently as World War II by soldiers in the Finnish armed forces (Boring, How a Small Force of Finnish Ski Troops Fought Off a Massive Soviet Army 2016). Post WWII, American soldiers trained to ski in combat returned to America and further popularized recreational skiing and began instructing and teaching professional skiing.
Ranging from 12 feet or greater in length as used by miners in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the 1800s, to shorter than 4 feet for children today, the size, width, and canter of a skier’s skis have a massive impact on how a skier travels down the mountain, as well as where they can ski. I wish to first discuss what size of ski you will need to start your journey and then get into how that length affects things like carving, skidding, stopping, and eventually jumping.