The Art of Why Things Do
1) What do you expect to learn in Physics this year?
a. I expect to learn why the Earth's oceans have tides at certain hours and why the moon has anything to do with those tides.
b. I expect to learn why airbags keep us safe in cars, because my dad is a doctor and he will be impressed when I tell him what I have learned.
c. I expect to learn how an athlete hits a home run in a baseball game so that every time I see the Asheville School Blues baseball team hit a home run I can know how they did it.
2) Why do you think studying Physics is important?
a. I think Physics is important because it teaches you about everyday life and why things work the way they do.
b. Physics is important because it explains basic rules of our universe.
c. Physics is important because you need to know it for certain jobs.
3) What questions do you have about Physics?
a. What kind of jobs require the use of Physics?
b. Why is Physics as important as people make it out to be?
c. After learning Physics, what insights will it give me about life?
4) What goals do you have for yourself in Physics this year?
a. To make an A. No joke.
b. To work as hard as possible.
c. To understand the subject material.
In this video, the girl as a tower of blocks and blocks that she is going to flick at them to show an example of inertia. As the girl flicks the block at the bottom block, the tower of blocks move down, but it doesn't fall down. The blocks don't fall down because of Newton's first law, which says that when an object is at rest it like to stay at rest. Therefor, as the bottom blocks are removed and the tower continues to decrease, each of the blocks stay because they want to stay at rest, which is inertia.
We both mentioned the fact that physics applies to our everyday lives. I thought it was cool and interesting that you said you wanted to explain why airbags work to your dad. Again, your blog is more organized than mine and you also answered the questions with questions. cool. Your blog is perfect. But I'm required to say something constructive about it. So the only thing I could find was that in the last paragraph it should be "the girl has a tower." you merely missed the H.
ReplyDeleteWe both mentioned Newtons First Law, however one difference is that I incorporated friction force in my example. I like how you explained that inertia is when objects want to stay at rest (or moving) by using the video as an example.Your post and explanation is perfect but you forgot to spell therefore correctly.
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