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A Physics of Rock climbing course 10-Jan-2011 At 1:48:44 PM Richard

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OK, also found this:

Three major student projects were undertaken:

1. A model of the propensity for a karabiner gate to open due to transverse oscillation of the rope during fall arrest. (PDF - 1.4 MB) (Courtesy of Philippe Bertreau and Christopher Pipe. Used with permission.)
2. A measurement of the propensity for a karabiner gate to open due to transverse oscillation of the rope during fall arrest.
3. An investigation of the change in tensile strength and elasticity of nylon fibers subjected to rope marking ink.

Those are also clearly physics - there overall blurb seems missleading then (but the title more apt) given what the details of the syllabus indicate.
So it looks like it covers hardware physics (and maybe abit of metalurgy thrown in).

Cheers...