Mass-casualty incident

The contraption I designed to protect my egg drop project from breaking failed. I am almost positive I understand why and I am also positive that if I were given the opportunity to redo my project, I would be able to save my egg. Here is what happened... First of all, I had completely ignored impulse momentum theorem, or ft=mv. This basically says that the net force of an object is equal to the change in momentum of that object. This is also known as Newton's Second Law. This directly relates…

DISCUSSION 1. What are the physical principles being investigated in this lab? The objective of this experiment was to determine the acceleration of a falling object by recording precise timed sparks on a piece of heat-sensitive tape. 2. Describe the shape of the plot (straight, curved) for each graph and say what this tells you about the relationship between the variables. Position vs. Time graph Prior to plotting the points into the graph, we subtracted the distance from each dot from the…

Milestone Paper A.Module Overview The standards that are being used in our lesson are the ideas that matter exists in three states solids, liquids, and gas and objects can be measured based on the size, weight, or texture. This is most important to our lesson as it discusses volume and matter in different aspects. The penny drop experiment has many underlying advances to understanding the big question: how do scientists work together to solve problems? Just like filling a cookie just enough to…

In soccer, many goals are scored because players bend and curve a soccer ball to fool a goalie. Because these goals happen so often, and players can easily curve the ball, it is easy to forget how the curve on the ball actually works. There are a few different methods to curve a soccer ball, so there are a few different physics concepts that apply to these methods. The Magnus Effect and Bernoulli's Principle explain how a soccer ball bends during flight. Bernoulli's Principle is based off of…

Proportionality and Newton’s Second Law of Motion Abstract How does increasing the mass of an object affect its acceleration? Is acceleration dependent of the mass of an object? How do they relate? Defining and testing Newton’s second law of motion familiarizes us with this relationship. In this experiment, we use the mass of an object as an independent variable to come to a conclusion about force and acceleration. By increasing the mass of an object at an incline, one can observe the change in…

Faith in Action Paper I spent my 15 faith service hours volunteering for Feed My Starving Children and I helped the maintenance crew around the school. While I did this I made new friends and grew as a person as well as in my faith. I probably spent about 8 or more of my service hours volunteering for Feed My Starving Children. Before when I was younger, I would go in because my older sister needed service hours and scoop some veggies and powder into a funnel for an hour and a half. Then…

A persons mind is unique. Every person has his or her own way of thinking and learning. Not to mention, people come from different origins, which leads to some people having a higher vocabulary. Why is all this important in physics? In the article, “Talking to Learn Physics and Learning to Talk Physics” it states, “the development of physics discourse and conceptual understanding are different processes that depend upon one another for successful physics learning (Harlow, Otero 1).” This article…

Have you ever seen someone dive off the diving board? Do you enjoy swimming? Well now I’m going to give you a little more information on swimming and what the physics of it is. You will see swimming in a whole different way. Gravity is always affecting you while swimming. Even you don’t think it is. Force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies fall toward the center of the earth. Newton’s first law of motion has a part to do with swimming. An object in motion stays in motion until another…

Spring Scales People quantifying the material in an object by measuring its weight. Spring scales eventually became one of the simplest and most practical tools for accomplishing this task, and they are still found in bathrooms and grocery stores. These scales contain springs, although these are normally hidden from view. When you stand on a bathroom scale, the scale measures just how much upward force it must exert on you in order to keep you from moving downward toward…

changed after we put the egg into warm water. The mass of the egg increased to 79.56 grams when it was left in warm water for 15 minutes. After the egg was left for 24 hours in warm water, the mass increased to 85.59 grams. When we put the egg into the corn syrup the next day and let it sit there for 15 minutes, the weight of the egg decreased to 80.94 grams. The mass of the egg drastically changed when it was left in the corn syrup for 24 hours. The mass of the egg went from 80.94 grams to…