springboard
Sign in to savethumb|right|Diving from a springboard A springboard or diving board is used for diving and is a board that is itself a spring, i.e. a linear flex-spring, of the cantilever type.
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- Springboard materials
- Adjustment of the spring constant
- Adjusting the fulcrum
- Heights of springboards
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thumb|right|Diving from a springboard A springboard or diving board is used for diving and is a board that is itself a spring, i.e. a linear flex-spring, of the cantilever type.
Springboards are commonly fixed by a hinge at one end (so they can be flipped up when not in use), and the other end usually hangs over a swimming pool, with a point midway between the hinge and the end resting on an adjustable fulcrum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “springboard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.