Friday, September 11, 2009

How does Physics relate to what interests me...

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  1. The sound from an electric guitar is produced by pick-ups that sense vibrations in the strings and route the electronic signal to an amp and speaker. The vibrations of the strings can be calculated according to basic laws in physics. These include velocity, wavelength, frequency and equations that describe the motion of a string fixed at both ends.

    - Eric R

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  3. One of my favorite things to do is bowl. Newton's first law states that an object in motion will remain in motion unless acted on by an outside force an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an outside force. If you have ever bowled, you know that after rolling the ball it continues to move across the alley until it comes into contact with the pins. After being put into motion, the bowling ball will remain in motion until friction eventually slows it down.

    http://www.angelfire.com/mo/PhysicsSports/

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  4. Sports is the thing I'm most passionate about in life. The three sports I like the best are football, basketball, and baseball. Physics are VERY important in all three.

    Physics drives football. One example of how physics is used would be when a football is thrown it makes a curve because gravity is pulling the ball down but the quarterback puts enough force on the throw to get the ball in the air as long as necessary. http://www.howstuffworks.com/physics-of-football.htm

    In basketball, the concept is still in the same. The basketball is thrown in the air resisting gravity as long as possible as it follows a parabolic line. Gravity also plays in the same effect in a pass as a shot would. http://mrfizzix.com/basketball/

    One cool way that physics applies to baseball is in the curveball in baseball. The pitcher throws the ball with a different spin than a fastball, and gravity pulls on the ball downwards while the spin moves the ball to the right or left.
    http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2002.web.dir/Jon_Drobnis/index.html

    Physics is a big factor behind these three sports and really is the science of all sports.

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  5. The sound from an electric guitar is produced by pick-ups that sense vibrations in the strings and route the electronic signal to an amp and speaker. The vibrations of the strings can be calculated according to basic laws in physics. These include velocity, wavelength, frequency and equations that describe the motion of a string fixed at both ends.

    http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2004.web.dir/Jeremy_Bloomstrom/physics.htm

    - Eric R

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  6. my favorite thing is music. physics relates to music mainly by sound. one of the ways is by vibration.. vibration's the source of all sound. when objects vibrate push against the air, or anything else you want to use, around them.. and that creates little areas of compressed air. the compressed air pushes around all the other air around it and its like a chain-link reaction of air pushing air. between the compression pulses, the air bounces back from where the pressure began.. that creates areas of low pressured air. You're left with areas of compression and rarefaction that go out from the sound source, one after another at a speed as fast as the original vibration was. That creates sound. :).
    next is sound waves. remember. waves are compression waves. you can imitate a compression wave by stretching out a slinky (man those are awesome) and flicking your finger against a coil at the end.
    also, there's frequency and pitch, resonance, and finally... overtones.
    frequency is the number of compression pulses that go past a fixed point in a given amount of time.The frequency of audible sound is measured in hertz, or cycles per second. Sound waves have a wavelength, which is the physical distance between compression pulses. The wavelength is inversely proportional to the frequency. Sound waves also have an amplitude, which is the amount of air that gets moved with each pulse of pressure.
    resonance is making the sound louder. so you can hear it.
    Finally, overtones are pretty much anything that can make a sound.
    so there you have it.. physics and music are one now!! =]
    here's the link:http://exhibits.pacsci.org/music/MusicPhysics.html

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  7. When you through a football you are using physics. You make adjustments for all the factors like distance, wind and weight of the ball. The harder the ball is thrown the steeper the angle of the throw.

    When a running back is moving in the open field, he has momentum. When the tackler applies an impulse in the opposite direction the momentum of the running back is changed.


    When backs on offense and defense, they line up away from the line of scrimmage on either side of the offensive and defensive lineman. There position allows them room to accelerate from the state of rest and reach a high speed.

    http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/physics-of-football3.htm

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  8. When you throw a football across the yard to your one of ur freinds, you are using physics. You make adjustments for all the factors, like as distance, wind and the weight of the ball. The farther away your friend is, the harder you have to throw the ball, or the deeper the angle of your throw. This adjustment is done in your head, and it's physics, you just don't call it that because it comes so naturally you need to think properly also espacially when you hit somebody thats also a part of physics because you got to make sure you hit him in a this football term called a sweetspot.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJaFHrrC6wM

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  9. My favorite sport is soccer. In this link it talks about how a soccer ball moves along a surface, there is a component of forse that is parallel to the surface. Its called the frictional force, and its always tangent to the surfaces. A ball rolling across a field creates friction, the friction being apposite the direction the ball is traveling.
    The closer the air is to the center of the ball, the faster it travels. The pressure of the ball can be reduced if the ball is rotating the same was as the airflow. If the ball is kicked with high speed, it will enter a smooth-airflow help to bring in a large sideways force. The shapeof the ball has alot to do with physics aswell. The shape resembles that of an allotrope of carbon called an “buckyball”.

    http://www.unc.edu/~ncrani/friction1.htm
    http://www.unc.edu/~ncrani/aerodynamics1.html

    -Mitzy H

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  10. The force at witch the baseball hits the bat depends on the mass on the ball and how fast the speed of the ball change. A pitched ball is going fastest when it leaves the pitcher’s hand because air riction slows it down as it approaches the batter. When the ball hits the bat the bat applies a force on the ball that equals that of the ball on the bat.
    Momentum is another important aspect of physics that applies to pitching. When pitchers move their legs and hips first (slow-moving and massive), that momentum is transmitted up the body, through the torso and into the arms and fingers as they pitch the ball.
    The large mass of legs and hips creates the momentum needed to pitch a baseball.

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  11. My favorite thing is soccer. Soccer is related to physics because the movement of the soccer ball through the air is affected through forces applied to the ball with either the foot or head. While the ball is in the air the gravity forces may cause it to curve. Putting rotation on the ball may cause it to bend in the air.

    http://www.topendsports.com/sport/soccer/physics.htm

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  12. My favorite thing to do is play basketball this is how physics relates to it. Spinning the ball when you shoot is not done to affect air resistance, or to make air resistance cause the ball's path to curve, as is the case in baseball.Basketballs move too slowly for that to happen. Once the basketball leaves the shooter's hand, it travels in an unchanging parabolic path. So what's the purpose of backspin? Backspin on the ball is used to help it to bounce into the net when it hits the rim. It will usually hit something, unless the throw was very high. The backspin, after contact with the back rim or board, will result in a change in velocity opposite to the spin direction, changing an equal-angle rebound into a velocity more toward the net. This makes it more likely that the ball will go in.

    -Alexa
    http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/physicsof/basketball.html

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  13. Physics & Soccer

    When you kick the soccer ball your relating to physics. Whenever the ball comes into contact with the surface that as friction, the ball parallel velocity is change and a torque is applied to the ball by the off center force. When the foot comes into the contact of the ball, the upward and forward swing of the legs stroke gives the ball a topspin. After the soccer ball is headed or kicked, the pressure of the air in front of it increases, causing air resistance to rise. This rise on the air causes the ball to be pushed back, slowing it down.



    http://www.unc.edu/~ncrani/soccer1.htm

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  14. I like to dance. dancing relates to physics from the minute you start to move, in fact in to get moving you use Newtons third law "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." Sometimes we have dance partners, but when we are dancing with a partner we move as our partner pushes or pulls us and also as because the force of our foot on the floor carrying us along. When we dance we are constantly moving and any change in movement changes our momentum or inertia.http://www.twosteptidewater.com/Dance_Tips/dance-tip-81-physics-as-applied-to-dancing.htm

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  15. My favorite sport is volleyball. Even though i don't really play it i like it more than any other sports.
    Volleyball relates with physics by forces, acceleration, gravity, and projectile motion. It is a sport that has many aspects in physics some of these are very basic concepts while others are more advanced. Physics explains and elucidates the basic fundamentals of volleyball and why one should perform them in such a way.


    http://www.hesston.edu/academics/FACULTY/NELSONK/PhysicsResearch/Volleyball/paper.htm

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  16. Physics & Soccer

    When you kick the soccer ball your relating to physics. Whenever the ball comes into contact with the surface that as friction, the ball parallel velocity is change and a torque is applied to the ball by the off center force. When the foot comes into the contact of the ball, the upward and forward swing of the legs stroke gives the ball a topspin. After the soccer ball is headed or kicked, the pressure of the air in front of it increases, causing air resistance to rise. This rise on the air causes the ball to be pushed back, slowing it down.

    Janet R.

    http://www.unc.edu/~ncrani/soccer1.htm

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  18. When you throw a football you are using physics. When the football is thrown it follows a curved path, in physics a curved path is known as a parabolic path. it follows this path because the force of gravity is pulling it down. As the ball travels up, gravity slows it down until it stops briefly at its highest point the ball then comes down, and gravity accelerates it until it hits the ground. This is called projectile motion. This is how Physics relates to football.

    http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/physics-of-football1.htm

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  19. Spinning the ball when you shoot is not done to affect air resistance, or to make air resistance cause the ball to curve, as in the case baseball. Basketball move to slowly for that to happen. Once the basketball leaves the shooters hand, it travels in an unchanceing parabolic path. So what's the purpose of backspin? Backspin on the ball is used to help it bounce into the net when it hits the rim. It will usually hit something unless the throw was high. The backspin after contact with the back rim or board, will result in a change in velocity opposite to the spin direction, changing an equal-angle rebound into a velocity more toward the net. This makes it more that the ball will go in.

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  20. Physics is related to soccer because of the movement of the ball in the air. when the ball is in the air, the force of gravity can cause it to curve. By putting rotation on the ball it can cause it to bend in the air like a curve ball. If the ball is kicked with high speed it will enter a smooth-airflow help to bring in a large sideways force.After the soccer ball is headed or kicked, the pressure of the air in front of it increases, causing air resistance to rise. This rise on the air causes the ball to be pushed back, slowing it down.

    http://www.topendsports.com/sport/soccer/physics.htm

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  22. Soccer is a sport that relates to physics. It relates by it being in the air and by its initial force applied to it by the head or the foot and the gravity and aerodynamic forces can cause the ball to curve. Also putting rotation on the ball can cause it to bend in the air like a baseball curved ball. When you kick the ball perfect without making it curve, the ball picked up velocity


    http://www.topendsports.com/sport/soccer/physics.htm

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  23. Physics is tied to my favorite hobby, volleyball. Volleyball has many aspects of physics. Theirs a lot of force going into the ball as the player serves, bumps, sets, or spikes. As the ball is in the air, gravity pulls it back down. The ball will be falling until it hits the ground or a player hits it, then it would change the motion of the ball. When a player hits the ball the force of the ball is acting with the force of the player. The player controls the direction the volleyball is aimed to. The ball can not move on its own no matter what, there has to be some kind of force hitting the ball to move it, or else it would just fall to the ground.

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  24. karina virrueta
    Running is related to physics because your limbs are like pendulums. If a pendulum is shorter, the speed of the mass at the bottom is faster. In order to shorten the pendulum you have to bend your knees. Thats why it is so hard to run with your knees locked. Therefore you will run faster if your knees are bent.

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  25. The physics of swimming from the time you get in the pool to the time you get out are obvious the first sign of physics is when you dive in the pool gravity creates a downward force that pulls you into the water instead of you flying away the next form of physics is when you are in the water you create drag the big you are the less you cut through the water the small and tighter or tone you are the more you cut through the water this is simple hydronamics

    http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/02_03/CE/km/TP.htm

    Eryc peck

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  26. Spinning the ball when you shoot is not done to affect air resistance, or to make air resistance cause the ball to curve, as in the case baseball. Basketball move to slowly for that to happen. Once the basketball leaves the shooters hand, it travels in an unchanceing parabolic path. So what's the purpose of backspin? Backspin on the ball is used to help it bounce into the net when it hits the rim. It will usually hit something unless the throw was high. The backspin after contact with the back rim or board, will result in a change in velocity opposite to the spin direction, changing an equal-angle rebound into a velocity more toward the net. This makes it more that the ball will go in.

    http://topendsports.com/sport/Basketball/physics.htm

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  27. I like riding on Roller Coasters that why im related physics to roller coasters. A roller coaster will be pulled by an electric motor to the top of a hill. After the coaster has been pulled to the top, no more external energy will be will be added to the coaster. The amount of energy the coaster has to complete its journey around the track depends on the potential energy. It has due to its heights at the beginning, there is a relationship between the height of the hill that the rollercoaster is on and the speed of the coaster. All that physic adds up and thats what causes the force and energy to the what the rollercoaster does.

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