Mass surveillance

Another Pound of Nothing For any wrestler, it´s a long and excruciating process, but well worth the pain to reach the pinnacle of his journey: to be a state champion. Before the wrestling season, a wrestler needs to be mentally and physically prepared. This journey is anything but easy, and sometimes to have the most success, wrestlers must cut weight. Cutting weight puts the wrestler at a lower weight, helping him control wrestling matches easier. The wrestler has to create physical goals…

result of an external force acting on it. The boat was designed according to Newton’s second law of motion. To create a greater acceleration rate, a carton of milk was used. The carton is very low in mass which allows for greater acceleration since the acceleration is inversely proportional to the mass of the…

Does society glamorize your weight and despise it at the same time? “You’re soooooo skinny!!!!” “UHHH, you’re just body goals!!” “You’re too bony.” These are only a couple of the lines that allude to my body image on a day to day basis. I know that I’m a short, petite young woman with an edge of sass. I fit society’s standards to an extent so, sometimes I don’t know how I should view myself when I look in the mirror. There are those infrequent moments when I think, “Should I complain about…

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564 during the Renaissance.This was a rebirthing period in Europe started off in Italy for art, philosophy, and sciences. The Renaissance brought back many ideas from Ancient Greece and Rome introducing many scientists like Galileo. Attending the University of Pisa originally going to study medicine, he was taught the Aristotelian view on the world, later questioning it making way for many of his greatest discoveries. He was an outstanding astronomer,…

Have you ever thought about making a contraption that protects eggs when dropped from ten feet? This machine can consist of popsicles, a maximum of ten balloons, a raw and hard boiled egg, as well as dixie cups, a small plastic bag, and glue. As a machine can protect an egg breaking on the ground, so can machines protect rovers when landed on a planet. Through viewing this, you can find out what type of machine my partner and I will use for our very own egg drop, and where you would see it…

falling precipitously. While the average pellet shot has a mass of no more than a few ounces and a duck weighs on the order of several pounds, the impact from the shot is enough to significantly redirect the trajectory of the duck. This occurs because while the pellet is very light, it is moving at an incredibly high speed relative to the duck. All moving massive objects possess this property of momentum, a quantity proportional to the mass of the object times its velocity. Momentum is what…

Sir Isaac Newton’s second law, acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass (of the object being accelerated) the greater the amount of force needed(needed to accelerate the object). Everyone unconsciously knows the second law. Everyone knows that heavier objects require more force to move the same distance as lighter objects. The second law gives us an exact relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. It can be expressed as a mathematician equation, the…

Using physics, we can calculate the mass of a bolt fired from a blaster used in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. First of all, we know that these bolts are not lasers based on two facts: they can be seen from the side and they do not travel at the speed of light. Thus, from there, we have to find their velocity. Rhett Allain calculated that to be about 35 m/s. He did this by finding distance and time of various bolts fired throughout the series, dividing the two measurements, and averaging out all…

In this experiment the maximum mass we are going to be using…

DISCUSSION OF RESULTS: Answer the following Questions: 1. How did changing the angle of the slope affect the acceleration of the object? Use information from the summary table and/or graph. According to our data, the larger that the slope was, the faster the acceleration of the object was. Although, this was not the same for the 30° angle and the 40° angle. This may have occurred due to an error in recording the data or a bad ticker timer being used. 2. What forces are acting on the object…