For this project we had to make a video describing how to do one sports action in the most effective way. Fist we started with picking are sport, we chose water polo. I was happy about choosing water polo because it is a sport that I play. Then we sports action we would do we decided we would do a skip shot. A skip shot is when the ball bounces off the surface of the water and into the goal. Making the video was fun because I got to do all the filming with my teammates on the water polo team and it was great having there help. After the filming was done we put the clips together, added in are physics concepts, and we where done.
Unfortunately something came up and I can not show you are video so hear are some other clips on how to do a skip shot.
Physics concepts
Impulse Impulse is how long something takes, and the amount of force on that object when it is getting hit and, or shoved. This solved with the equation mv=ft. m is the mass, v is the velocity, f is the force, and t is the time. would you rather have someone was to drop a 100 pound waight on your foot or softly lower a 100 pound weight on your foot. I would think you would rather have someone lower the weight on your foot because it would hurt less. The reason it would hurt less is because less force is acting on your foot.
Momentum When something is moving it can be hard to stop. Momentum tells you how hard it would be to stop that object. This is solved with the equation p=mv. p is the momentum of the object, m is the mass and v is the velocity. That is why it is a lot easer to stop a baseball than a car, because the baseballs mass is a lot smaller than a cars.
Vectors When some thing is thrown it moves in two directions horizontally and vertically. You can use this to find how fast an object is going downwards due to gravity. Both horizontal and vertical can be found by using pythagorean theorem.
Reflection In this project I felt like I could improve by not only making sure I'm on task but making sure my team mates are on task. There where a few times where I noticed that my team mates where maybe not paying attention or something else on thoughts lines. I didn't do anything about it because and thats almost worse than not staying on task myself. One other thing I thought I could improve on was my technology skills there where many times when we where editing are film and i had no idea what was going on. This is something I can improve on by doing more things on the computers. Things I felt like I did good on with this project skills was time management, there was never a time where are group was low on time or stressed out about the project. Lastly I felt like I did a better job with asking questions when I was confused. I still can and will work on this but compared to most times I improved.