This upcoming week we will be learning about momentum. Over the course of this year we have learned kinetics and motion. Momentum is a mixture of both. Momentum is kind of related to inertia but is a little more complicated. This weekend I took this picture as I passed the fair that was taking place in Kapolei. I thought to myself that a ferris wheel sort of has components of momentum. It is hard to start something up when it has momentum. Thats why you build up momentum so that it keeps going, like inertia. If it wasn't for the mechanisms in the ferris wheel to stop it, the momentum would keep the ferris wheel spinning because of the amount of force that was applied.
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