Physics From Our Childhood!

I never noticed it, but physics is a part of our everyday lives! From when we wake up in the morning to when we go to sleep at night, we experience physics right before our eyes. It has only been about 3 weeks in school and we have learned so many things about physics! We learned about the definition of physics, accuracy vs. precision, scientific notation, dimensional analysis, and the pendulum.

Today, I was driving home and passed the park next to MPI, like I do everyday. But as I looked closely, I say a young boy swinging on the swings and it reminded me of the pendulum lab that we worked on this week. Just like the pendulum, the swing has a suspended weight (the boy) swinging back and forth. In the lab that we did, we tested for the period (the time for one complete cycle), so I decided to do that too. The period for me was about 3 seconds! I was surprised at how easy it was to find physics in my everyday life!



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Pendelum Swing. Digital image. The Pendulum Swings. N.p., 21 Sept. 2012. Web. 24 Aug. 2013.