WHAT I LEARNED SO FAR AS #15

This semester in physics i took in a lot of information. From jumping off of cliffs of death to getting songs yelled in my face. Its been a pretty good year so far. One of the main things i remember was force. One of the examples used was about boxing. In the example, we saw that you have more power when you punch through an object the you have when you punch at an object. While i was boxing at palolo gym, my coach always told me the same thing. He would always punch through the man dont stop at contact. Now i see why and it was pretty cool to learn why he always told me that in an educational way. In this picture above you can see me and my brother. We are just play fighting as you can see but it always reminds about that lesson. Though sometimes i would like to punch him trough his face hahah i wont tho. Maybe i would just stop at his face since it wont hurt as much. Another thing that i learned this semester is that the laws of physics can be broken! During the egg lab, Mr. Blake said that if i threw the egg at the sheet no matter how hard, it would not break. But!!! when i threw the egg it did indeed break on the sheet. He claims that i broke the egg in my hand even though there was no yoke on my hand just on the sheet. So i will keep it as i broke the laws of physics.

POTENTIAL ENERGY (GRAVITY)

This week we learned about he different types of energy. This picture is an example of Potential energy. Potential energy can be potential gravity or potential spring. This image shows potential gravity . While above the pool the gravity is pulling me toward the water. there is also potential spring form the diving board. The tight spring shot me high above the pool!

SCRAMBLED EGGS?

This week in class we pono and i had to build a device that could keep an egg safe while dropping it from the top of Akahi (super high). Our egg drop device consisted of a very complicated design. We figured that the cone would be a perfect device. The cone would be bottom heavy cause there was more paper at the bottom.The egg would sit nicely on a bed of feathers and tissue paper. Finally the four wings would keep the cone up right and slow the decent. Well, we thought wrong.! As soon as the wind caught our device, the cone flipped and landed egg first. I think that if the cone were not as top heavy, we would have had a better chance of survival.

PONO "THE HAMMAH" CHOY

This week in physics we learned aboutLLinear Momentum on one axis. The si unit for momentum is kg x m/s. This is because MASS X VELOCITY = MOMENTUM. Momentum in is equal to momentum out. This is a picture of Pono "The Hammah" Choy laying the lick on number nine from punahou. (they are not even good enough to get a capital p) Pono is about the same mass as number 9 but, because he has more momentum, he runs right through him like a hot knife through butter. Pono has a much higher velocity which causes him to have a much higher momentum. Momentum helps a lot when playing defense!!

CAR CRASH!!

This week in physics we experimented using car crashes. It just so happend's  that my uncle got into a car crash the other day. When he told me i thought of the lab immediately. This was different from the lab because when my uncle was hit he was stepping on his brake so his car didnt move in the oppisite direction. It just skidded forward unlike the car in the lab that bounced in the oppisite direction. It was like the cars that got stuck together with the velcrow. The brakes added friction and caused the car to not move as much. Finally this car got way more messed up then the cars in the lab.

I THINK I KNOW MOMENTUM

Our next subject in Physics is about momentum. Before i look it up on google i thought about my two dogs. The small dog is Cissy and the bigger dog is her puppy Champ. In my house there are wood floors and my dogs are house dogs. Cissy's mass is small compared to Champs mass. When the dogs run in the house Cissy can stop quickly, Champ on the other hand goes sliding across the floor every time. I think this is because his mass is greater which means he has a greater momentum.  Momentum is the product of the mass and velocity of a specific object according to google.

TENSION

This weekend i watched the smurfs with my family. In this image the smurfs are playing tug of war. There is massive tension on the string because there are two forces pulling on it. The forces are pulling oppisit of each other to the tension is great. This picture is one example of tension and thats about it. BUT THE MOVIE WAS PRETTY GOOD I MUST SAY!