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.

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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.