important. F=m(dv/dt)(Quote) F=ma Force = Mass x Acceleration (Newtons) With the use of this equation he proved that objects that are heavier fall at the same rate towards earth as objects that are lighter because the earth pulls them down with the same force. To put it in perspective a car and a feather would fall at the same universal rate of 9.8m/s^2 even though one is much heavier. Newton also figured out that the moon is held to the earth by the same force that pulls an apple off a tree…
Rube Goldberg Project For this Rube Goldberg project I am going to explain how my machine worked. My simple task was to pop a balloon. The item we used to pop the balloon was a mousetrap. I am going to go step by step through how I created my Rube Goldberg machine. First, we started out with a ramp that we dropped the ball on. That was our potential energy. Next, we had a ball drop down a tub at approximately 180°. That was mechanical energy. After that, the ball went through an elbow and…
novel Sula, Toni Morrison presents nature as an all controlling force over people in the Bottom by emphasizing the embodiment of nature in powerful characters, by depicting a sense of liberation in death, and by illustrating a lack of agency in the Bottom’s population. Morrison first suggests the pervasiveness of nature in the lives of people in the Bottom by creating parallels between powerful characters in the community and natural forces. With this humanized view of nature’s…
was not affected as much as the lighter weight objects (Frisbee and coffee filter) in terms of air drag. The outcomes of all experiments conducted were substantially correct, as they properly evaluated the consequences of objects in respect to drag force. As stated above, the first experiment, the acceleration of a falling mini-basketball, I had trouble visualizing the experiment and thus my predictions were incorrect with the final results. However, I soon realized that the position vs. time…
Gravity is pushing down so much you're just weightless riding down a free fall. Then suddenly you're upside down going around 2 loops pass the gold mine express, where kinetic energy, In addition centripetal force, and terminal velocity is. Your flying past everything around the fastest corner gaining friction where little bushes and palm trees stand with anIn addition, you see giant boulders in the way surrounded by a stream.As acceleration speeds up you go…
When constructing the car, the goal was to make the car as sturdy as possible in order for the car to travel a great distance in a short amount of time. To do this, we researched various ways to create a mousetrap car. Additionally, we incorporated our own ideas to enhance the construction after trial and error. First, our team gathered all of the necessary materials that we would need to construct the car. These materials included one mousetrap, cardboard pieces, six balloons, four eye hooks,…
Bouncy balls bounce because the material of the ball is extremely elastic and can convert kinetic energy from falling into potential energy and back into kinetic energy again with little loss of momentum. They are used in many classrooms because they can easily demonstrate conservation of momentum through a highly elastic collision. Like many things made out of rubber, bouncy balls have very high elasticity, meaning they rapidly return to their resting state after being stretched or squashed. If…
By finding the area underneath the velocity versus time graph and by adding up all the displacement intervals gave values near each other. This means that there are two ways to calculate displacement using a velocity versus time graph. Experimental Uncertanties There were several experimental uncertanties accountered in the accelerated motion lab. Firstly, the presence of air resistance. As the object traveled down the ramp increasing its velocity, air resistance increased which affected the…
by an outside force. This law applies to gymnastics when a gymnast is flipping through the air they will not stop flipping until they either hit the ground or change their body position. Newton's second law states that the net force acting on an object will cause it to accelerate (F=ma). Newton's second law applies to gymnastics because male gymnasts are usually more muscular than female gymnasts so the tend to have more mass. This means that they will have to apply more force than female…
The acceleration of the object will increase as the force of the object increases. In this case the propelling force is thrust. In order to increase thrust, the water must be expelled from the rocket at a fast rate. Secondly as the mass decreases, acceleration will increase due to the inverse proportions and because of the increasing…