simple physics

Although there was a lot of physics going on in the form of sports this weekend (soccer, wrestling, basketball, swimming, and diving), I decided to focus on a very simple type of physics that took place on Friday night. Earlier this weekend, my friends and I went to Senor Frogs. While I was looking over my pictures, I noticed that there was physics right at our table. As we sat down and ate, our bodies exerted a force on the bench. The bench exerted an equal and opposite force on us as we sat down. This demonstrates Newton's third law of motion; whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts and equal and opposite force on the first. Physics is in the most common places. In fact, you are probably experiencing Newtons third law right now.

Diving in with physics

On friday I watched my friend, Bridget's diving meet at school. It was the first time I ever watched on and it was quite interesting. I took some videos because I thought that there would be some kind of physics at the meet. I'm sure there's a ton of physics to diving but the only thing I can think of at the moment is that when the diver is diving into the water, gravity pulls down on the diver at 9.8 m/s. The different divers hit the water at different times however, due to other factors such as how high the are able to jump off the board, how many and what kind of turns they do.