Projectile Motion

This video is a video of me throwing a calculator. I took this video to show an example of projectile motion. Projectile motion is when an object is moving in both the x and y axis. As you can see the calculator is moving up and down as well as left and right. Therefore it is moving in both axis. Projectile motion is actually very interesting and it is around more then we think. For example a ball being thrown is also undergoing projectile motion. A person jumping from point A to point B is also projectile motion. In class this week we learned multiple different ways to find out certain measurements having to deal with projectile motion. Projectile motion can be actually beneficial in everyday life because it can help us further understand how things move and certain factors to it.

Vectors

This week in class we learned about vectors and what they were. We further understood how they work and what they are. The picture above is my brother holding out both arms creating vectors. A vector is basically a quantity that has both magnitude and direction. The vectors created are not considered equivalent vectors because they donʻt have the same direction. Vectors are actually pretty interesting because they can be broken up to make certain lengths and to find certain quantities. We were also assigned a vector quiz and I am actually having a really hard time with it. Hopefully I can figure it out though.

Projectile

This week in physics class we learned about projectiles. The definition of a projectile is: something that has a single force affecting it, gravity. We conducted multiple experiments and used logger pro to analyze and understand projectiles. For example a person jumping from point A to point B would be considered a projectile because the only force affecting it, is gravity. The video above is an example of projectiles. That is my brother Byrne who is jumping from point A to point B. The only thing affecting him is gravity because there is nothing else putting force upon him. Projectiles are pretty cool and I am very excited to analyze other forms of projectiles. 

Teach the Makua

This is a video of me teaching my father about some concepts learned in Physics this quarter. Enjoy!

Q1 Physics in a Nut Shell

Physics is all around us in everyday life. It is pretty much the fundamental building blocks of how things work and why it works that way. Through this course I was able to understand many parts of my everyday life. To begin, the first thing that I have learned is the difference between accuracy and precision. They are both very important in physics. Accuracy is how close a value is to the “accepted value” while precision is how repeatable the values are. Another thing we learned in physics was periods of a pendulum and how different factors affect them. After an experiment we had conducted we learned that only the length of a pendulum affects it period. When we finished learning about pendulums we moved on to the unit of movement and kinematics. In this unit we covered many different terms such as, velocity, displacement, acceleration, and many more. This whole unit was basically to learn and understand how things relate to each other and how movement is a very complex topic. We learned how to solve multiple different equations to find out certain information on movement. Like “d,a,t” equation. An equation used to find either distance, acceleration, or time from a moving object. Mr. Blake taught us these equations to help us further understand relationships in this broad topic of movement. Another thing we did pertaining to this whole unit was graphing. We learned how to graph movement and the parts of it. One thing we figured out is how graphs in movement can be converted and relate to one another in some way or another. Like a distance vs. time graph, it can be converted to a velocity vs. time graph using slope. This quarter I learned a lot about the world around me. Through this class I was able to further understand why certain things happen in this world.