Power gauge.Rodeo rodeo (rō`dēō, rōdā`ō), public exhibition of the skill of cowboys in various activities. Events include riding broncos, riding steers, "bulldogging" steers, roping and tying steers and calves, the use of the lasso, and riders experience a bucking bull's power firsthand first·hand adj. Received from the original source: firsthand information. first . A new device gives fans a way to gauge it as well. Before a bull enters the ring, the puck-size "XPower" device is glued to its back. As the bull bucks and spins, XPower measures the forces created by the bull's bouncing back. A 907-kilogram (2,000-pound) bull can exert a force of roughly 3 g's or three times the force exerted by Earth's gravity Earth's gravity, denoted by g, refers to the attractive force that the Earth exerts on objects on or near its surface (or, more generally, objects anywhere in the Earth's vicinity). , on the rider. That's similar to the forces you feel while riding a roller coaster What a bad CD-R disc is often called. See CD-R and underrun. . "Think about holding on to that roller coaster with just one hand," says Stephen Wharton, the electrical engineer who invented XPower. "That's why a lot of guys fall off." During the ride, the device's sensors relay the measurements to a computer. For rodeo fans at home, a graph showing the changing forces is displayed on television. That way viewers can compare the force of one bull to another. |
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