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Application #1

In class, we talked a lot about Forces and mechanical equilibrium. As we were learning about it, it
made a lot of seance. However, there was some things that I never understood until now. Such as
when you are riding and/or sleeping in a car you cant really tell if it is moving at a constant speed or
just sitting there. This is because static and dynamic equilibrium feel the same when in a car.
Another cool aspect that we learned about force is that there is Support Force. This explains how
when you jump on the floor you are stopped by this supporting force and you dont plummet into
earth's core, pretty glad we have that. I feel like I learned a lot from these few chapters.

Application #2

This week we learned a lot about friction and how it is the opposing force of an object being moved
on a surface. It was interesting to see how friction really depends on what the material is and how
friction can be stronger or weaker depending. One of the really cool things that I never knew about
friction was that it can build up when you are not moving the object. One way that this is applied in
life is how cars have anti-lock brakes. This is really awesome because the anti-lock brakes stop and
go really fast so that the friction can be stronger between the tire and the road. (I never know why
they did that until now)

Application #3

Friday we learned a lot about tangential speed and rotational speed. We explained how tangential
speed is not the same as rotational speed. Rotational speed is how fast some object rotates around
another object. Tangential speed is how far/fast the object is moving. This is really interesting
because the farther the object is to the center the faster the tangential speed is, but the rotational
speed stays the same. This explains why when you are on a merry-go-round is feels a lot faster on
the outer edge and its easier to stand up in the middle where you feel less speed, however you are
still rotating the same amount.
Application #4

Last Friday we talked about one of the most interesting things, how a satellite works. It's really
interesting to learn what properties have to be applied for a satellite to orbit Earth. Some of the
interesting things about it is that a satellite is just moving faster than its falling, and that anything can
orbit the earth as long at it is going 8 km per second. At first I didn't think that was very fast but when
I did the math, that's like 47,000 miles per hour. It was also interesting to see how most orbitals do
not orbit in a circular motion but it is more oval. This also applies to our everyday life because the
moon orbits the earth this was and the earth orbits the sun this way.

Application #5

Last Friday we talked a lot about the physics of water. We talked a lot about how the pressure of
water works and how we use this to our advantage by building water towers for good water
pressure. One of the coolest things we learned about water was the buoyancy of water. We learned
that in water the force that makes it easy to swim and flute in water is a buoyancy and all a buoyancy
is, is a lot of force vectors pointing on the object in different directions, but the force vectors on the
bottom are greater.Therefore, the Buoyancy of water pushes you up. The Buoyancy of something
also has a lot to do with the mass and volume of an object. This means the more you can shape an
object to have more volume the greater the buoyancy will be. A really good example of this is a big
cruise ship. If you were to take all the mass of the ship and compress it into a ball it would not float.
However, because the ship is shaped the way it is, it has more volume and a greater buoyancy.

Application #6

Last week one of the most interesting things we learned about was Elasticity. We learned that in
order for an object to be elastic it must be able to endure force and return back to its original shape
or form. This definition of elasticity is a little different from what you would expect because when we
think of something being elastic we usually think of like a rubber ball or spring. However, a metal
brick is actually must more elastic because it can endure a greater amount of force and return to its
original form. A real life example of elasticity in an object is your car shocks, when your driving your
car shocks are always bending when you go over bumps, however when the bump is small you
shocks are able to bend and reform to their original state so fast that you don't feel the movement.
We also learned the compression and tension play a big role in Elasticity, and how arches actually
use compression to help its structure carry more weight. We also learned about the neutral part of
an object that is not under tension or compression.
Application #7

Last week we learned a lot about heat transfer and how there are 3 different types: Conduction,
Convection and Radiation. I myself knew about some of these different types of heat transfer,
however there was a lot that I learned about Convection heat transfer. I learned that convection is
the heat involved in the motion of fluids. This is why warm air rises, and this affects many different
parts of the earth. For example, because heat affects solids and liquids differently, it results in
uneven heating of the air around it which actually results in winds moving toward land in the morning
and toward the sea at night.

Application #8

2 Weeks ago we learned a lot about energy and how it flows. We learned that without any additional
for heat goes from hot to cold. We also learned how that concept also applies to the efficiency of a
machine. One of the most interesting things we learned though was what entropy is. We learned that
entropy was the natural process of an orderly state to a disorderly state. We explained that all
energy naturally goes from an orderly state to a disorderly state. One example of entropy is the way
trees naturally grow and how if you go in nature trees are not in an ordered line of sequence but they
are spread apart disorderly.

Application #9

Last week we learned a lot about sound and waves. One of the most interesting things we learned
about was music and sound works in music. We learned that higher pitches are associated with
higher frequencies and Hz. We also learned how we are able to distinguish these pitches by how
they sound. For example, when you play a low key on the piano you are playing a low pitch wich has
a low Hertz, and when you play a higher key you hear a higher pitch ect. We also learned that a
sound could be broken down to its fundamental parts through the Fourier analysis.

Application #10

Last week we talked a lot about Magnetism. We learned about the different properties of a magnet
such as it's north and south side and how opposed sides attract. We also learned how the magnetic
field looks and reacts with other magnetic fields. However one of the most interesting things that I
learned is what a magnet actually is and how all they are just material with aligned magnetic atoms.
This is interesting because by using a material that is magnetic you can stroke another material that
is not magnetic and by doing that you will align some of those magnetic elements. This is interesting
to me because I remember as a kid making my own compass and I had to rub my needle with a
magnet for a while and then it would work and point north. A real life example of when we use
magnetism is in Maglev trains and how the train is actually using magnetism so that it doesn't have
to touch the tracks and create friction.
Application #11

Last week we talked a lot about electromagnetism. It was really cool to see how magnets are
affected and do affect electricity. One of the really interesting things that we learned was how coils
could really affect the electric flow. Learning how magnetism affects electrons, can really help us to
understand real world application of these such as generators and motors. It was really interesting
learning this chapter, however, the one question I had was that if magnetism can affect electric flow
just through its magnetic waves, does that mean that it's giving the electrons energy or just
facilitating the electrons in their flow?

Application #12

Last week we learned a lot about how light Reflects and Refracts. It was great to see and
understand how reflection works like in mirrors and things. However, learning about refraction was
very interesting. I felt like there was a lot of things that I learned that I never really understood. So
refraction is when the light is going at a certain speed and then enters into a different medium and
has to change direction to maintain the shortest time to pass through a slower material or vice-versa.
One of the most known examples of this is how water refracts the items in it. As a kid, I always
thought that was interesting and didn't really understand what was happening. This also explains
many different optical illusions as well, such as the sunset and mirages.