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.