Mr. Pitti, our athletic director that sadly passed away, asked us to figure out the physics behind some of our favorite sports. Our group decided on the figuring out the Physics of Hurdles (Chair).
Evidence of Work |
This project was very fun overall. The first day of the project we spent most of the time figuring out what sport we were going to do. After throwing out a couple of ideas we decided on hurdles. We realized none of us had access to real hurdles, we decided to do chair hurdles. It was a pretty easy fix. After we figured that out we figured that out we made the story board. The storyboard brought us into the second day of our project.
It didn't take us much time to figure out the script so on the third day we started to film. Filming was, I admit, a little hard, because our group was laughing during the process but in the end it was a success. We got all of our videos in about a week and we also started editing during that time. We presented our rough draft videos to the class and after we modified what needed to be fixed. Our final draft is to the left. |
Concepts
Force of Impact - Force built up when two objects meet. It is measured in Newtons (N).
Time - The progress of events that happen. It is measured in seconds (S).
Distance - The amount of space between one object and another. It is measured in meters (M).
Momentum - An amount of motion that an object has. It is measured in (kgm/s).
Impulse - A force acting on an object and the time when the force is being exerted. It is measured in Newtons (N).
Vertical Velocity - Velocity of an object in a vertical direction. Changes by 9.8m/s sq. each second. It is measured in meters per second (m/s).
Horizontal Velocity - Velocity of an object in a horizontal direction. It stays at a constant rate. It is also measured in meters per second (m/s).
Total Velocity - Velocity of both the horizontal and vertical velocity and the actual object's path. It is found using the Pythagorean Theorem (a sq. + b sq. = c sq. )
Time - The progress of events that happen. It is measured in seconds (S).
Distance - The amount of space between one object and another. It is measured in meters (M).
Momentum - An amount of motion that an object has. It is measured in (kgm/s).
Impulse - A force acting on an object and the time when the force is being exerted. It is measured in Newtons (N).
Vertical Velocity - Velocity of an object in a vertical direction. Changes by 9.8m/s sq. each second. It is measured in meters per second (m/s).
Horizontal Velocity - Velocity of an object in a horizontal direction. It stays at a constant rate. It is also measured in meters per second (m/s).
Total Velocity - Velocity of both the horizontal and vertical velocity and the actual object's path. It is found using the Pythagorean Theorem (a sq. + b sq. = c sq. )
Reflection
During this project, I believe I worked a lot better than the last. Mr. Williams picked our groups based off of video editing history. In middle school we had to use iMovie and video editors a lot because we usually had a lot of projects so I wasn't new to editing, but I wasn't great at it. But in my group I was the most experienced. I'm glad we picked Hurdles (Chair) because I plan on running track and field for San Marin in the spring, but also doing hurdles and long jump. In this group I didn't get off task as much and I was proud of myself for that. I didn't really understand a lot of the math though and when I tried to learn it, it started to make a little bit of sense. I do admit I could've been more into the math portion, but I feel I did a good job overall. I helped film and edit since my group didn't really know how to and I'm glad I could teach them something.