Monday, April 27, 2009

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as i make my jump of Thrill!!!! i feeel as though my body is being pulled straight down to the water and that im experiencing weight less ness. Their is a force called gravity that is pulling my body towards the water. The pull of gracity is towards the earts core. Although i feel weightless for those few seconds i am falling i am not truely weightless because there is still a support force pushing on me. physics is everywhere and it explains my crazy life wooohoo!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

You spin me right round Baby right round baby right round

http://coach-al.smugmug.com/gallery/7639568_pPyVY#493866658_29jz4-M-LB here is a picture of one of our volleyball games. I couldnt get the picture because coach AL needs to make money by selling these pictures anyways. In the picture i tos the ball up in the air to serve it. Analyzing the picture i noticed that when i toss the ball i put some spin on it giving the ball rotational intertia. Newtons second law clearly states that an object in motion stays in motion so if i were to ignore outside forces and wind resistance the ball would continually be spinning. As my body is jumping i twist my shoulders to increase the torque so i can hit the ball with a greater force. Isnt physics neato i think so.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Work It

Photobucket as a young chld i enjoyed the fine arts of clay man ship. Little did i know that i was exhibiting physics. As i lift my beautiful sculpture of the dog in the picture i am exhibiting work. Work is defined as the quantity of force times distance. But as i hold it the piece in place i am not exhibiting work anymore because there is no change in force or distance on the art piece. Boy physics is alot of work

Monday, March 9, 2009

Momentum

PhotobucketMomentum is the measure of an objects mass times velocity as you can see here is my band playing at kamehahmeha surf sample fundraiser. As i am hitting my drums it shows that physics can be found everywhere. The momentum of my drumstick is its weight times the velocity that i am hitting the drum with it. The cool thing that i learned in physics class is that before i even collide my stick with the drum it has the same momentum before and after. Crazy stuff huh just another day in my life where i experience physics!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Jumping off the ground or the ground pushing me up???

http://coach-al.smugmug.com/gallery/4687593_r3cxn#277201461_Xp7DW so here is a picture from coach al's photo smug mug. Because coach al doesnt allow us to copy and paste pictures i have a link instead. As you can see im pretty high up in the air. befre i approached the ball i now realized how relevant it is to NEwtons third Law of motion. As i am getting ready to jump i exert a force to the ground but what i now noticed is that the ground is giving back an equal amount of force that my legs exerted. Thats crazy so now i know if i want to jump higher i need to increase the force exerted by my legs so that the ground force push will aslo increase.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Acceleratorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssss!!!!!!!!

PhotobucketAs i was driving on the pali i noticed that my speed was constantly changing. At first i was oblivious to the fact of what was causing my car to accelerate, but than EUREKA! i learned in physics class that there are certain parts of my car that can affect the speed of my car. They are called accelerators which increases the speed and or velocity. They are three accelerators in the car. First off the break pedal, when i press on the break pedal my car decreases in its speed and decreases the velocity. The second acccelerator is the gas pedal when i press my foot on the gas pedal im gone my car speeds up and im as fast as lightining. the third Accelerator is a little tricky it happens to be the steering wheel. The Steering whee when you have to make a turn whether you notice it or not slows down the speed and velocity of the car. Physics is cool man

Sunday, January 11, 2009

What Lense Should I Use if I'm Nearsighted?

Photobucketunfortunately my vission is far from from perfect. It was probably from all of those books I read as a child that messed my eyes up but thats not important for now. I have nearsighted vision where i can see things that are close to me but not far. I was wondering what lenses are the most helpful converging or diverging lens. i found out its the diverging lens thats best suited for the job. It is because when i use diverging lenses it helps me focus images from a farther distance

Monday, December 15, 2008

Reflection

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As i was watching tv i decided to take a picture at the screen to see what would happen. Baazzoiks !!! to my amazement when i looked at the picture the tv screen i saw this straight flash of light! What the?! you could see the beam of light that the came from the camera's flash onto the tv screen. Because telivisions outer surface is smooth and sleek it was able to reflect the image of the flash of the camera. We learned in physics that light takes the shortest path reflecting off the smooth reflective surface to reach our eyes. If the TV was not smooth and rough it would absorb the light and the light would be scattered in different directions. Boy who knew you could find Physics taking pictures of Jack Bauer!

Monday, November 24, 2008

Ooooooooh! Physics!

Photobucket Oooh ahhhh must have been your first reaction to this bag, but your second reaction is man this bag is pretty darn red. The bag appears to be red to our eye because the bag has a low frequency and wavelength. There seven different colors that make up the color white. Red happens to be the lowest frequency and it is easier for the eye to see. the bag is absorbing all of the other colors of the spectrum except for red that is why the bag is perceived to be red. The Ooh is white which means that it contains the colors red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. The three main colors of the sprectrum is red green blue which account for all of the rest of the colors. Whoa these three colors can form all of the colors that just blows my mind!!!

Sunday, November 16, 2008

GO TRANSFORMERS!!!!!

Photobucketwell basically i know what your thinking how did I take a picture of optimus prime in its natural habitat. To those who think that way must not know anything about physics. Transformers play a big roll in our daily life. TRansformers work using alternating currents to induce voltage into the second coil. The second coil is only induced when it senses a difference in the current that is produced by the primary coil. This all happening inside the transformer. There are different kinds of transformers out there. Some are used to either increase voltage or others are to decrese voltag. The step down transformer in the pipcture here is transforming the high voltages to 120 volts for the compatability to power my house. Thank God for that transformer or else too much voltage would be at my house.

Its Magneto

PhotobucketIn physics we learned that magnets are used in our life more than we know. Magnets are defined as objects that have an equal amount of north and south poles with aligned domains. The earth itself is a big bar magnet with a south and a north pole. Magnets are related to motors. Using the generator effect we learn the using magnets and copper coils can induce voltage to power things. LIke lets say a radio like i have pictured at the top. As you can see as i crank the radio i am moving the coils around the permanent magnet to an induce voltage to power the radio without the use of the battery. Wow i dont think i could live in a world without magnets!

Sunday, November 2, 2008

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As you can see me and my fellow classmates, peter , andrew and I went on a hike to embrace natures gift of life. The picture shows the telephone wires that stretch along all over the mountain. Hiking up there we saw birds fly on the wires. Peter was like " what the?!" I had to tell poor peter how it was possible for the bird not to be harmed. I had a brainblast to the day we learned in physics class about voltage differences. The bird did not explode or catch on fire and burn to death because both of its feet were touching the wire thus making the voltage diference zero. Good thing i know my physics or that would have been flustering my brain all day.

Monday, October 20, 2008

What The...?!

Photobucket As i was sitting on the toilet i noticed that one of the light bulbs was burnt out, but the others were still shining. Using my knowledge of parallel circuts it hit me. A parallel circut has more than one path for charges to flow through and has more than one resistor. In a parallel circut if one light bulb were to to be disconnected or burnt out it would not affect the other light bulbs. That is why many lights around the house are made of parallel circuts. Who knew?!!!

Monday, October 6, 2008

Electricity

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As i looked at my Cd Player i was wondering why it was not turning on. I look at the back of it and i see that the battery is out of its socket. It reminded me of the principles of elctrical circuts. An Electrical cicut is any path along which electrons can flow. In order for their to be a electical current there must be no breaks on the elctrical path way. There are two types of pathways for elctrical circuts, seriers and parallel. Series has only one pathway for the electrons to flow. In parallel they have different pathways branching of in sepearate paths for elctrons to flow. If i were to push in the battery to fill the gap in the circut my Cd player will now be ready to play my music.

Monday, September 22, 2008

The Relationship of Music Theory and Physics

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I started playing piano last year teaching myself how to play by just listening to songs i liked and tried to copy them on the piano. For some odd reason i could pick up certain pitches with my ear and melodic melodies everytime i played different notes. I had no idea why some notes sounded awesome together and why others did not. My music teacher taught me why the notes i played went well together. 440Hz is an important number to any musician because that is the frequency that everyone tunes to, which is the note A. Different notes have different frequencies. I would always play in different ocatves, but never understood there relationship. In physics i learned that octaves are differentiated by factors of two. In the picture my left hand is playing a G2 and a G3, the frequency for G4 is 396Hz so if i divide that by 2 i get 198Hz which is the frequency of G3 and i divide that number by two again i get 99Hz which is G2. Understanding the frequency of octaves and different notes has expanded my creativity and caliber on the piano. Who knew how mathematical music is?!!!!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Photobucket This is a picture at New Hope Windward where I currently play drums for the worship services. If you look closely to my drumset you will see the clear transparent drum shield. The surrounding acrylic glass shield is vital to the sound of my drums. Soundwaves reflects from a smooth surface the same way that light does. If I were to bang on my drumset without the shield, I would send sound waves in all directions reflecting off the walls of the theater. As the sound waves from my drums bounce off the walls, it causes too much reflections thus resulting in reverberations. The purpose of my drum shield is to simulate playing in a enclosed room. The shield balances out the reverberation and absorption of my sound waves to give me a crisper and more lively sound when I play on stage.