Physics of Sports Video
During October 2013, we made a physics of sports video. The sports director made an e-mail to my teacher saying what our videos should be about. The burning question was How could we use physics to do better in sports? We chose to a golf drive. My group members were Toby Guenthener, Scott Fischer, and Michael Carbonaro. We chose to do golf, specifically the drive. All of the groups had a film festival at the end of the unit.
Process
The first thing that we did was the storyboard and the script. That took a couple of days. Then we filmed Toby hitting the golf ball at the Indian Valley Golf Course. That took many takes over the course of an hour. After that we edited the video and added soundtracks. It needed to reach at least 3-5 minutes.
The Physics behind the swing
Momentum: the quantity of movement of a moving body. We could use it to improve our swing by twisting our torso and getting as high as possible.
Force: Push or pull on an object.
Impulse: Force x time. The larger the force, the less the time, and more impulse.
Horizontal Velocity: How fast an object goes forward.
Vertical Velocity: How fast an object goes downward. There is NO speed at the top of the arc.
Total Velocity= Horizontal velocity+ vertical velocity, the whole parabola.
Reflection
There are a couple ups and downs to this project. Let's start with the ups. The first up is that this project was so much easier than the rube goldberg machine for many reasons. The first reason is that we didn't have to construct anything. Also there was really nothing that went wrong with the project because we could just edit it out or retake whatever we were working on. The last thing was that we were not judged of our video like the rube goldberg machine so we were not that stressed out. There were also some downs to this project. One thing was that we needed to go off campus to film. Also it was hard to find a quiet spot to film so we went into the hallway to film. I still need to work on giving out ideas, not getting distracted, and research in my free time. So the project was easier than the Rube Goldberg Machine.
Process
The first thing that we did was the storyboard and the script. That took a couple of days. Then we filmed Toby hitting the golf ball at the Indian Valley Golf Course. That took many takes over the course of an hour. After that we edited the video and added soundtracks. It needed to reach at least 3-5 minutes.
The Physics behind the swing
Momentum: the quantity of movement of a moving body. We could use it to improve our swing by twisting our torso and getting as high as possible.
Force: Push or pull on an object.
Impulse: Force x time. The larger the force, the less the time, and more impulse.
Horizontal Velocity: How fast an object goes forward.
Vertical Velocity: How fast an object goes downward. There is NO speed at the top of the arc.
Total Velocity= Horizontal velocity+ vertical velocity, the whole parabola.
Reflection
There are a couple ups and downs to this project. Let's start with the ups. The first up is that this project was so much easier than the rube goldberg machine for many reasons. The first reason is that we didn't have to construct anything. Also there was really nothing that went wrong with the project because we could just edit it out or retake whatever we were working on. The last thing was that we were not judged of our video like the rube goldberg machine so we were not that stressed out. There were also some downs to this project. One thing was that we needed to go off campus to film. Also it was hard to find a quiet spot to film so we went into the hallway to film. I still need to work on giving out ideas, not getting distracted, and research in my free time. So the project was easier than the Rube Goldberg Machine.