Electrostatics

Electrostatics is studying stationary electric charges or fields. This is talking about positive and negative charges along with neutral charges. In this picture a student is rubbing there socks on the ground which is charging by static friction. If it was in a cold dry environment and the student was to rub their socks and then touch someone, they would get a static shock. This is caused because of electrons building up and when they get near a neutral or positive charge they would want to jump off causing a shock. It doesn’t work very well in wet environments, the charge depletes quicker in that kind of environment.

DO WORK!

When you think of doing work you think of school or having a job. But in physics “work” is a measurement. Work is equal to force times distance (W=FD). Work is measured in Joules (J), force is measured in newtons, and distance is measured in meters. A newton is equal to the mass of something times gravity (N=mg). It is a fairly easy topic to learn. If you have force and work you can find distance, if you have distance and work then you can find force and ect. The person in this picture is doing work because the mass of their finger is going the distance down to the keyboard. So if the mass of his finger was .4kg and it had to go .1 meters down to the keyboard then the work that he would have is 0.04 J. W=FD.

What I am thankful for

Thanksgiving isn’t just about what you are thankful for in life, but it is also about what you are thankful for in school subjects like physics. There are many things to be thankful for in physics but the one thing that I am the most thankful for is gravity (-9.8 m/s^2). It is the best thing that has ever happened to the world and to physics. Without gravity everything would be floating around and it would be hard to do anything with out it. That is why everything in my room is not floating; it is staying down, because of gravity.

Momentum

Momentum is a very confusing topic for me, especially when you talk about change in momentum (impulse) versus change in speed. It is hard for me to tell the difference. In this picture a football player is getting tackled into the ground. The whole way down after he is hit there is no impulse but once he begins to hit the ground the impulse has a big small force and a large contact time, that is the same as if he his a hard surface because there would be a great force over a small contact time, they balance out. Overall he has a large momentum because has has a large mass and a large velocity moving forward.

Forces that Accelerate

I was sitting at Sandy Beach also known as “Sandys” and I realized that the blow hole was really blowing hard. So I grabbed my camera and took a sequence of pictures with it. I got pictures of when it began to blow, when it was in mid air still moving up and when all of the water was floating. This is related to physics because when the water first shot out of the hole, it was accelerating which meant that the velocity was increasing because of the pressure in the hole. As soon as all of the water left the hole it continued to move upward but it wasn’t accelerating because there was no force acting upon it. After a few seconds in mid air it began to fall because gravity downward was greater than the acceleration upward.

Newtonʻs Law #1

All of Newton’s laws make sense and the one that I will be talking about is Newton’s first law. His first law is “objects in motion/ at rest tend to stay in motion/ at rest unless acted upon by an outside, unbalanced force”. So I chose a skate board because it is obviously true for this law. When the skateboard is sitting at rest on flat ground it will continue to stay in the same spot unless a person or something else touches it. When a skateboard is moving it will continue to move until the force of friction, gravity and resistance is too great for the board to continue to move. Also it will stop moving if a person or another object hits it or touches it.