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.
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