Description
For this project we were tasked with taking one of our old projects, and doing it better. My group decided to redo our physics of sports video. In the original, we were supposed to explain the physics of a sport to help athletes improve their abilities. On the first round I did the shoulder bump, but on this we did soccer.
Physics Concepts
Velocity-the distance covered in a certain amount of time in a direction. The equation is V=d/t, or velocity equals the change in distance over the change in time
Force- Force is defined as a push or pull. It can be found by multiplying the mass of an object by its acceleration, but in this case we used the equation mv=ft, or mass times velocity equals force times time.
Momentum- the tendency of a moving object to keep moving. The equation is momentum equals mass times velocity. In the video we found the momentum of the ball.
Force- Force is defined as a push or pull. It can be found by multiplying the mass of an object by its acceleration, but in this case we used the equation mv=ft, or mass times velocity equals force times time.
Momentum- the tendency of a moving object to keep moving. The equation is momentum equals mass times velocity. In the video we found the momentum of the ball.
Reflection
This was a very quick project, but it was very fun. I enjoyed working with my group, but sometimes we got a little off focus. Sometimes we would be completely distracted during our filming, watching another group film or just talking about off topic things. Eventually we were able to get it done, but it could have been faster. A good part of this project was when we figured our all the physics. We were messing up some of the equations, and we could tell some of our results were way off. For example, we found that Andrews kick had a few thousand pounds of force. Once we got it worked out we were happy that we had accomplished it. Another hard part was when we lost two of our group members. We started off with six, but two of them didn't feel included, so they decided to split off, and their project did turn out great. But it was hard for me to see that we had excluded them even though they were in our group. A second peak of this project was the end product. We didn't quite get to finish in class but one of my group members was able to pull it off. I was very relieved to find out it was finished.