Physics Of Hurdles
This project was a little difficult at first because we initially had some disagreements about which sport we would pick. The ideas we had were swimming, hurdles and darts. We decided to go with hurdles because it would be easier to work on at school than swimming and another group had chosen darts. We decided to focus on the ideal force of a hurdle. Acceleration and mass were taken into account due to their relationship with force.
The video opens with a clip of Michelle Jenneke's hurdle. Michelle Jenneke is a silver medal winning Olympic hurdler. After this, the video progresses with a slow motion clip of my teammate, Jada's hurdle. It continues with a few brief description of the physics of the hurdle, complete with a time lapsed whiteboard clip. It concludes by thanking the audience for their time and attention to our video. Below is said video:
Jada lands on the ground with a force of 490 Newtons due to her mass of 50 kilograms and the Earth’s acceleration due to gravity, which equals 9.8m/s^2. Her landing velocity is 3.58 meters per second, which is the same as her vertical velocity because these are very similar terms in this case.
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I gained and mastered several skills throughout the course of this project that will help me throughout my life. These include, calculating force, velocity, mass, and time with certain variables and talking in front of a camera. Aristotle once said, "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." This is exactly how my teammates and I learned to talk in front of cameras, and calculating force, velocity, mass, and time with certain variables.