We examine the approach used and the results presented in a recent publication (Can. J. Phys. 76, 295 (1998)) in which (i) a noninertial reference frame is used to examine the motion of a curling rock, and (ii) the lateral motion of a curling rock is attributed to left–right asymmetry in the force acting on the rock. We point out the important differences between describing the motion in an ine...

Recensé : Françoise Blum, Pierre Guidi et Ophélie Rillon (dir.), Étudiants africains en mouvement contribution à une histoire des années 1968, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2016, 366 p.