Force #3

Once again this week we continued to learn more about force. This picture was taken on our football senior retreat this summer on Kauaʻi. In this picture a few of us woke up at 4 to prepare an imu for our pig to be cooked on. As you can see Kory and I were taking turns smashing up banana stumps that would later be used to cover up the imu. I realized that this was a perfect example of newtons first law. When we held the sledgehammer in our hands it was still and continued to remain still because of its inertia. But when we applied unbalanced force downward with our swing then the inertia changed to a downward motion until it hit another force that balanced it out, which was the ground. Once again physics is applied to our everyday life. Without it we wouldʻnt have been able to enjoy our wonderful fresh imu kalua pig that night.

Force #2

This is a picture of me showing my incredible strength while holding up my girlfriend up. Before I picked her up she was standing still and her inertia caused her to want to stay as so. But when I picked her up using an extraordinary force her inertia swooped her off her feet upward causing her to continue to move upward almost making me fall backwards. Her force or mg's, which consists of the product of her mass and the constant of gravitation acceleration or weight, was pushing down on the normal force that I had holding her up. Once again proving that physics is important in everyday life.

Force #1

This week in physics we began learning the basics about force. In this picture during New Years, I am swinging a red dragon whip firework around myself like a mad man. Although it was popping, it was also swinging around me. The definition of inertia is a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion unless that state is changed by an external force. When the red dragon whip was in its box, the inertia wanted to stay still and curled up, so that's exactly what it did. But when I removed it from its box, lighted it, and began swinging it, the inertia caused it to want to stay in its swinging motion. Thus once again proving even more that physics is applicable to our everyday life.

Roads: BUREKU

This is a picture of a section of Kapolei, where I live, and as you can see there are many different roads winding through it. In this section of Vectors we are studying how you can find the angle and length of a vector given one or two other vectors. We can do this by using trigonometry equations such as sin, cosine, and tangent. For example, when roads are built not all of them were built to take each person directly to the location they had to go, that's why we have so many roads connection to other roads. Each road represents a vector with different direction and magnitude. All these vectors have a start point and an end point, such as the "tail to tip" method infers. Using the BUREKU method we can find how far from our house to any direct point on this island by using the vector measurements for every road we would have to take to get there. Isn't that cool?