Physics of Sports
Overview:
For this project, we were tasked by the San Marin Sports Program to create a video showing how to improve sports performance using physics. My group, comprised of myself, Leo Buoncristiani, Citlalli Gonzalez, and Noah Prochnow, decided to help the golf team, as both Noah and myself love golf, and I am going to be on the golf team this spring. We figured out amazing things that nobody expected! For example, the force exerted by my drive on a golf ball is 8000 Newtons, or 1900 pounds of force. Doing this, we also learned about physics concepts like force and mechanical advantage. This was a very fun project and I hope that shows in the website and video. Enjoy!
For this project, we were tasked by the San Marin Sports Program to create a video showing how to improve sports performance using physics. My group, comprised of myself, Leo Buoncristiani, Citlalli Gonzalez, and Noah Prochnow, decided to help the golf team, as both Noah and myself love golf, and I am going to be on the golf team this spring. We figured out amazing things that nobody expected! For example, the force exerted by my drive on a golf ball is 8000 Newtons, or 1900 pounds of force. Doing this, we also learned about physics concepts like force and mechanical advantage. This was a very fun project and I hope that shows in the website and video. Enjoy!
Reflection:
This was an amazing experience! We were able to manage our time well, and worked very well together. All of our voices were heard, and we all agreed on things very easily. One peak, as previously stated, was time management. We not only finished on time, but were not rushed. We had the footage used recorded only a couple of days into the project. We were able to easily acquire the editing software, and and all of us were all in. Also as previous stated, another peak was group cooperation. Everyone was eager to be involved, and we all were. Noah and I hit the golf shots, while Citlalli and Leo did the majority of the talking. All of our voices were heard, and I believe that this passion was shown in the video. As far as pits are concerned, I honestly cannot think of any. The only one is that none of us liked the sound of our own voice. This applies to everyone I think, but we all got over it eventually. Other than that, I am very pleased with how our group worked together, and I hope to work with them again in the future.
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Content: Velocity: Velocity is speed with a given direction. It is calculated by dividing distance by time. Therefore, its unit is meters per second. Because the golf club travels one meter in 0.025 seconds, it has a velocity of 40 m/s
Force: Force is defined as a push or pull. It can be calculated in two ways. One: F=ma, or force equals mass times acceleration.That would've given us the force of the swinging club, but not on the ball. The equation we used is mv=ft, or mass times velocity equals force times time, where you solve for force. This gave us the force on the ball, which was 8000 Newtons (the units of force), but to put that in perspective, it is 1900 lbs of force. Mechanical Advantage: We described the action of swinging a golf club like a wheel and axle, where your arms are the input distance, while your arms plus the club is the output distance. Mechanical Advantage is the ratio of input to output distance. It states the the lower the MA, the faster the club will move, giving it more force and more distance. |