Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 New England Sections of the APS and AAPT Joint Fall Meeting
Friday–Saturday, October 13–14, 2006; Worcester, Massachusetts
Session Plenary5: Physics of Sports Records |
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Chair: Tom Narita, Holy Cross College Room: Holy Cross College Haberlin 103 |
Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:00AM - 12:00PM |
Plenary5.00001: The Physics (and Mathematics) of Sports Records Invited Speaker: How are records set and broken? Are there simple mathematical techniques which would help us approach this question? I will present a simple introduction to the statistics of extreme values. Motivated by an example from sports records, I will discuss the distribution, averages and lifetimes for a simplified model of such ``records.'' Our input data are sequences of independent random numbers all of which are generated from the same probability distribution. A remarkable universality emerges: a number of results, including the lifetime histogram, are universal, that is, independent of the underlying distribution. [Preview Abstract] |
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