I dont really go to this many school sport events

Wow waterpolo. A very infamous sport here in Hawaii not quite as large of a crowd compared to football thats for sure. Sports make it very simple to see everyday science, esp. physics.  This week I found 2 dimensional kinematics (ooh, fascinating *insert amazed emoji*). When a ball is thrown (which it is quite a lot in this sport) it is a projectile moving in two directions. The first of which is on the y- axis as you can watch the ball be thrown and caught in a parabolic motion. Then we can see on the x-axis that there is a constant acceleration in which the ball is having due to the fact that gravity is always present.

Touchdown!

In some odd way America's beloved sport gets incorporated into everything we do... even physics! Football isn't as mindless as a sport in such that they just hit each other but the plays that they run deal greatly with vectors. Such vectors can even further relate to math (yay!) such as sine, cosine, and tangent. The distance and direction deals is a major part in getting the ball to the end zone. To determine the distance they can use a simple pythagorean theorem. If the wanted to get down to the nitty gritty they could even find the angle using trigonometric equations

What stuck?

Throughout this quarter we have gone through many different sections and vocabulary. Sometimes not everything sticks, for some it goes in through one ear and out the other ear. As I try to review some of the terms learned this first quarter of Physics we can see what really sticked.

We started this semester learning about measurements. Hawaiians had not very precise ways of measurement. They would use body parts to measure items but I don't think they took into account that everyone size of body parts differ. No two people are alike as they would say. We even focused a little on pendulums. We would measure the period of one pendulum swing. To my surprise, there are many different common day pendulums we see around us, such as a grandfather clock.

Next thing I remember is motion. All motion is relative to something. Motion has to do with confuisng topics such as  displacement, acceleration, and velocity. While also touching on vector quantities and scalar quantities. Scalar is only the magnitude quantity or described with a numerical value along. Vector is dealing with the quantity of magnitude and a direction.

I guess I did remember something from school, who knew?

All about moi (me)

My name is Kulia and I’m from the beautiful garden isle of Kauai. In my free time I like to go to the beach and hang out with my friends. My friends would say that I'm a lazy but funny person. This picture represents me because I’m happy and goofing around at my loving home surrounded by my family (the people I care most about). I am currently in a dreaded College Algebra class. I hope to gain viable math skills from this class because I do plan to continue in some sort of math path in my future career choice.

Accelerateeeeeeeeee

This video somehow relates to physics. To other people it just seems like a dumb little video about a kid fooling around. But its about everything we can’t see in this video. Gravity plays a large role from the start. As he throws the cup up gravity slows down the cup until finally it stops at the top. It goes first fast from his initial velocity of throwing it up than it slows down until it stops at its peak. From here it does the exact opposite. Once it stopped it falls slowly then picks up speed until it finally stops in his hands. Simple physics guys, duh.