Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Newton's Three Law's of Motion! I dont have a weird title today.. Sorry.

     Hello everyone! I am back! Today we will be learning about Newton's Three Law's of Motion, just incase you didn't read the title. Guess what! Isaac Newton comes into this once again! Wonderful, right? Well, let's get started.


1. Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it's compelled to change that state by forces impressed on it.

2. Force is equal to the change in momentum per change in time. For a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration.

3. For every action, there is an equal and opposite re-action.

     Okay, so lets look at the first law. So, basically it is saying that an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion unless an external force is applied to it. For example, there is a soccer ball laying on a field. This object is at rest, so it will stay at rest. I am thinking like a normal person (probably not but just go with it) and decide to kick the soccer ball with a lot of force. Now, because I applied a force, the ball is in motion. The soccer ball is in motion, and will stay in motion until an external force is applied. In this instance, my external force is the net or the soccer goal stoping it from continuing. Got it? Hopefully because I am moving on.


     First law is now done, hopefully that was a simple one. Let's move on the second law. It's talking about how force equals mass times acceleration. I talked about this a couple blog posts ago so go and read it if you need to. The second law is saying that force equals mass times acceleration (f=m*a). You are throwing a 6-pound and an 8-pound shot put, a heavy led ball that you throw in track and field, once at a time. You will be applying the same force for each of them. The 6-pound will go further because the weight is smaller than the 8-pound. If you want more inforation, you can go down to my earlier blog post.


     For the third and final law, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In other and simpler words, for every force there is a reaction with the same size, but in the opposte direction. *Credit to Maddie for the help for this example :D* Gravity. That is my example. When you are standing on the earth, you are using a force against the Earth, but there is a force from the Earth that is pushign back at you.




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Monday, March 10, 2014

We are watching a movie! Haha no, We are learning about Gravity.

      Hello People! I'm going to go ahead and guess what you are doing right now. You're sitting down reading this blog. That part is kind of obvious, but how are you sitting down? Have you ever wondered how you don't just fly into the air? Well, some of you probably haven't recently because you know why :/. But anyway, the reason you aren't currently floating is because of gravity! If you know what that is, then you will understand this blog post very easily!



      Gravity is a force of attraction between all objects in the universe. We experience it every second of every day. Every thing in the universe has gravity. The earth has gravity! This is how you are standing up! The Earth has a gravitational pull that is pulling you towards the center of the Earth, but because you have a gravitational pull as well, you stand upright. The Earth's pull is larger, so you don't feel the pull. When you get into space, you are a certain distance away from huge objects that the force isn't strong enough. 



      This theory was introduced by Sir Isaac Newton. Here's that name again. He believed gravity had to do with two main things, mass and distance. Massive objects will exert a stronger gravitational pull than less massive objects. If two objects are closer together, than the force is stronger than when they are farther apart. Galileo Galilei made up a famous experiment testing gravity. He climbed up to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls with different masses and similar shape. He learned that heavy things fall faster than light things. 




      An objects mass and an objects weight are very different. An objects mass is the amount of space the object takes up. An objects weight is the force exerted on an objects mass by gravity. If you move to the moon, your mass stays the same, but your weight changes. The amount of space you take up won't change, but the amount of force exerted will because it all depends on gravity. The moon is smaller, therefore it has a smaller gravitational pull.




      Did you know that gravity is one of the most important forces in the universe? Well, know you do! It is because gravity keeps everything in place in the universe. Gravity is why we aren't floating aimlessly in space until we hit something. Interesting, right?



Now for random gifs of One Direction showing examples of gravity! :P 











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Monday, March 3, 2014

May the FORCE be with you...

Hello to all the people reading this! I'm not really the one to write puns... So... yeah... I used one in my title and that's it. Sorry! It might sound like I am a couple times though. :D Anyways, this week we are learning about... The force. Not the Star Wars force, just the scientific force... Okay, lets move on.


Force is basically a push or pull. Right now you have a force holding you down on the earth, *says hoping you know what it is* gravity. Another force that you have is reaction force. This is the force that keeps you upright standing so you don't sink into the ground. Also, when you are walking, you have a driving force that pushes you forward.


Did you know that Isaac Newton discovered all these facts about force? Well, that's probably why force is measured by Newtons. A newton is the standard measurement of force. That's probably the only way to describe it. An object can have multiple forces acting on it at once. A net force is the combination of all of the forces combined. For example, when you are driving in a car, the engine is pushing you forward, but the air resistance is slowing you down.

You measure net forces with Newtons. If both forces go in one direction, then you add the two together. If the forces are in opposite directions of each other, then you subtract the two and the larger amount of force wins. If they are equal forces, the net force is zero.


Remember that example I used with a car moving forward for net forces, well, it can be something else as well. If the air resistance has 20 Newtons going against the car and you are driving with 20 Newtons, the force is balanced and you stay stationary or at a constant speed. That is when you have a net force of zero. But, if the air resistance is 20 Newtons and you are driving with 50 Newtons, the force in unbalanced. The net force would be 30 Newtons to the direction the car is going.


Now let's talk about thrust. Yes, thrust... You read correctly. Thrust is a push of something suddenly or violently in one direction. How does this relate to force? Good question, person that doesn’t exist. Thrust relates to force because a force is a push or pull, so thrust falls into this category. Just look above for an example.

Wow, this was a long post this week. Oh! I almost forgot about something. Fun fact time! Centripetal force is when it forces something to follow a curved path. An example of that would be like when you are driving and have to make a U-Turn. You turn your car in a curved path. Easy! 

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