Phaulty Physics in Philm Project - Maria and Cecilia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHvzj_kYJ6o

Time played - :40-1:20

During the time period of 40 seconds to 1 minute and 20 seconds, the coyote isfrantically chasing the roadrunner. Once a truck comes speeding his way, the coyote has to run away in fear of being run over. Because the coyote is running at such a fast speed, he does not notice that he has already ran off the cliff and is still running in mid air. The only time that the coyote comes to a hault is when he crashes into the side of another cliff.
Whether shot from a cannon or running on foot, cartoon characters are so absolute in their momentum that only a telephone pole or boulder stops their forward motion absolutely.
This is impossible because one cannot be in mid air for such a long period of time and not drop right away.
If the coyote were not a cartoon, it would have dropped off the cliff right after he ran off.
Because of gravity the coyote would have fallen right off the cliff after it ran off.

Vector Racing Cecilia and Maria

In the vector racing is related to Newton's 1^st and 2^nd laws. Newton's first law applied to the game because you have to be careful not to crash into other vehicles or the wall, and by doing that you have to give yourself a certain amount of squares to stop in order to win the game. Newton's second law is applied because the second law states that the acceleration of an object is dependent upon the mass, force and acceleration. These principles relate to our own driving especially in the winter because, you have to figure out when to start braking in order to not slide or crash into another car. Also, force, mass, and acceleration play an important role in our driving because it determines whether we will or will not to stop in time.

Vector Racing- Lauren, John, and Hannah

In this extension, we figured out how vector racing is related to Newton's first and second laws. We determined that, Newton's first law applied to the game because, in order to win the game, you have to give yourself a certain amount of squares in order to stop in time without crashing into another veichle. Newton's second law applies because force, mass, and acceleration are all important factors in whether or not the car will stop, go, or crash. These principles apply to our own driving especially in the winter because, you have to figure out when to start braking in order to not slide or crash into another car. Also, force, mass, and acceleration play an important role in our driving because, they are also things that factor into whether or not we will stop in time.

Projectile Motion Photo Project Candace

This picture illustrates projectile motion by showing a ball bouncing on the ground. This picture shows projectile motion because the ball was moving at a constant rate when it was falling and when it reaches its peak it has 0 velocity, then goes back to the constant rate making the parabola shape. I had set camera shutter speed 1/20 and dropped the ball from a height of 3 centimeters.

Phaulty Physics in Philm Project - Maria and Cecilia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=3h2vaJITloo

This is a video clip of the cartoon Road Runner. At 0:44, Wile E. Cayote walks off a cliff and continues to walk in mid air for at least 2 seconds. While loitering in mid air, Wile E. Cayote takes a look down, realizing he is not standing on solid ground, and finally starts to decend down the cliff. This is when the 9.8 m per second takes over. Our reasoning as to why this is impossible is because of the existence of gravity. Gravity is defined as the natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body, such as Earth, upon objects at or near its surface, tending to draw them toward the center of the body. Basically, what that means is that without gravity, one would float off into the atmosphere without ever coming down - like how Wile E. Cayote was floating in mid air almost as if gravity was not present. Of course, considering that gravity is always present in the Earth's atmosphere, floating in the air like that is impossible.

Projectile Motion Photo- Lauren and Hannah

In our projectile motion photo, we decided to throw a ball. We determined that this photo demonstrated a projectile motion due to many reasons. One reason that this photo demonstrated projectile motion is, when the ball is first thrown it is moving at a constant rate. And the slope for this constant rate is, 2.399 m/s. Our final reason that this photo demonstrates a projectile motion is, when the ball is dropping to the ground it is not moving at a constant rate. We know this because, we drew a best fit line through the y points in a graph. And the estimated slope was -1.269 m/s.

Projectile Motion Photo Project - Maria and Cecilia

Projectile motion can be seen almost anywhere - even Millennium Park. This is a picture of the Crown Fountain in Chicago. The towers are fifty feet tall and has slits for drainage to drain up to 11520 US gallons of water per minute. The water is flitered, pumped, and recirculated through the fountain.

Mathematicians describe the shape of a projectile motion as a parabola. The shape of the water spewting out of the Crown Fountain is definitely an accurate portrayal of that shape. This is a photo which captures real life projectile motion.

candace motion photo project

In this picture I dropped my hamster from a height of 6 inches. He fell for about 1.2 seconds.

I set my digital SLR camera to a shutter speed of 1/50. It took a few tries but I finally got a good shot of him traveling down.

farhad

This image shows a car in motion heading north west down Milwaukee avenue. I set the camera to a slow shutter speed so it could capture the car going through the light.

Cecilia and Maria's Motion Diagram Photo Project

 

For our Motion Diagram Photo project, we decided that dropping a bright yellow tennis ball 3.7 meters from the ground (AKA off the New Pit stairs) would be a great way to create art about physics. The tennis ball dropped for .6667 seconds. As time increased, so did the velocity of the tennis ball. To create our picture, we set our camera to a continuous flash and held down the shutter button for as long as it took for the tennis ball to reach the ground. Unfortunately, we did not get to put all of our pictures together to create one motion picture.

Motion Diagram photo-Hannah Herrmann and Lauren Mroweic

In this picture, we are dropping a ball from the top of the new pit stairs to the floor. The distance from the top of the pit stairs to the floor was about 6 meters. And the estimated time was about a second or a tad bit more.

We created this motion diagram photo by setting the camera onto a specific setting where it would take multiple photos at a time. To do this we pressed the top right switch where you can move it up and down. We moved that switch to the center and then we choose the option to the right, where it had a bunch of boxes, which meant take multiple photos.

Your first task as a member of the blog (and the class) is to accept the invitation to be an author. Mr. Rylander, another Physics Studies teacher, has put together a wonderful video that steps students through the task of accepting the invitation and logging in for the first time. The video is shown below.

Once you have completed this first task, you will be ready to create your first blog post.

Creating a New Post

Once you have logged in for the first time and accepted your invitation to be a contributing member (i.e., author) of this blog, your next task is to create your first blog post. For any extension project that involves posting a video, photo, or reflection to the blog, you will need to create and publish a "post." A post is simply a short article that appears on our class blog.

Once more, Mr. Rylander (a Physics Studies teacher) has put together a very useful instructional video on how to create your first post. The video is shown below.

Once you have created and published your post, it should be visible on the blog.