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Rhett Allain
Southeastern Louisiana University
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Angry Birds?
• Why are they angry?
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How big is the bird?
• First, is this projectile motion?
• How do you even get data?
• Best = Video Analysis (like Tracker)
• Not Bad = a ruler and a stop watch
• How would I even know if it is projectile
motion?
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• Slingshot = 1 unit.
• v-x = constant
• a-y = constant
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2 2
ay 2 AB/s = 9.8 m/s
70 cm
1 AB = 4.9 m
• Big BIRD!
• Intro Physics Projectile motion? YES.
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Ok, but why?
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What about the blue bird?
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Setting up an experiment
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Red Bird Collision
Red bird
rock
7.8 m/s
mrb
mro = 23.2 m/s ( 2.2 m/s) = 0.31
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Results
= 0.29 MR
= 1 MR
= 0.29 MR
= 0.019 MR
= 0.29 MR
Total = 0.87 MR
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What does this tell us?
• Mass is not conserved in Angry Birds?
• The extra birds come from another
dimension?
• Always expand the blue bird before a
collision.
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The Yellow Bird
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Constant acceleration?
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Speed before vs. Speed after
No relationship?
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Constant Final Velocity?
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Some weird stuff
What I expect
same y-acceleration
constant velocity
bird at negative
angle during tap
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Acceleration and angle
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Why Angry Birds?
• Students are already familiar with this
• The data is easy to get
• They probably already experiment with the
levels
• You can look up the physics, but that might
not be the answer
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White Bird
Is momentum conserved?
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Black Bird
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Bonus Material
• Global Physics Department
http://bit.ly/G_Physics_D
• Blogging
• Resources http://bit.ly/ABphysics
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Is the launch speed
even constant?
q
ks2
v2 = m 2gs sin ✓
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How do you get the
launch speed?
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Launch speed data