Physics of Sports Video
Our second project of the year was to film and create a "physics of sports video." For this video We had to choose a certain aspect of a sport and teach the viewer of the video how to execute that aspect. Since Mr. Williams would not allow us to choose cheese rolling (video below) my group decided to choose basketball instead, and we did the 3-point shot. My group was with Ely, Sasha, Noah, and myself. We videoed Ely shooting the shot many times and we interviewed another person in our class about basketball, and how to achieve the perfect shot. We included videos of Ray Allen, a famous basketball player. We then included calculations of the force of the ball, acceleration, kinetic and potential energy, and momentum.
Calculations:
Ray Allen velocity calculation: V=d/t = 7.010m/1.2s V=5.84 m/s
Ely's force calculation: F=ma F= .6237(12.42m/s2) F= 7.75N
Acceleration of ball: A=v/t A= 8.7 m/s/.7s A=12.42 m/s2
Momentum of ball: P=MV P= .6237(3.76) P=2.35 kgm/s
Definitions
Velocity: Velocity is the speed of something in a given direction. We had to find the velocity of the ball when Ray Allen shot it, which was 5.84 m/s.
Force: Force is a push or pull. We calculated the force Ely exerts on the ball to get it in the direction he wants it, which was 7.75 newtons.
Acceleration: Acceleration is the increase in the rate or speed of something. We had to calculate the acceleration of the ball, which was 12.42 m/s2.
Momentum: Momentum is an objects increase towards motion. We calculated the momentum of the ball, which was 2.35 kgm/s.
Reflection
This project was pretty fun to do. I learned a lot about videoing and how to build a small video, along with some techniques to basketball. I think time management was less of an issue as of my last project, but it was still a small problem, as we could have used our time more wisely and completed more and still had a small amount of time at the end to "proofread." I think the best thing was putting the video together, because it wasn't that hard to do. Once we got all the right videos we put them all in imovie and put in the calculations.The worst thing was getting all the right videos and clips and putting them in a sensible order. It took us at least a couple of days to get it all together and to put all the voice recordings in the right spots. A couple of things i learned about myself is that i am really terrible at basketball, and that i am not very good at managing time. Our STEM physics of sports video is below, along with a video of cheese rolling(a great sport).
Our second project of the year was to film and create a "physics of sports video." For this video We had to choose a certain aspect of a sport and teach the viewer of the video how to execute that aspect. Since Mr. Williams would not allow us to choose cheese rolling (video below) my group decided to choose basketball instead, and we did the 3-point shot. My group was with Ely, Sasha, Noah, and myself. We videoed Ely shooting the shot many times and we interviewed another person in our class about basketball, and how to achieve the perfect shot. We included videos of Ray Allen, a famous basketball player. We then included calculations of the force of the ball, acceleration, kinetic and potential energy, and momentum.
Calculations:
Ray Allen velocity calculation: V=d/t = 7.010m/1.2s V=5.84 m/s
Ely's force calculation: F=ma F= .6237(12.42m/s2) F= 7.75N
Acceleration of ball: A=v/t A= 8.7 m/s/.7s A=12.42 m/s2
Momentum of ball: P=MV P= .6237(3.76) P=2.35 kgm/s
Definitions
Velocity: Velocity is the speed of something in a given direction. We had to find the velocity of the ball when Ray Allen shot it, which was 5.84 m/s.
Force: Force is a push or pull. We calculated the force Ely exerts on the ball to get it in the direction he wants it, which was 7.75 newtons.
Acceleration: Acceleration is the increase in the rate or speed of something. We had to calculate the acceleration of the ball, which was 12.42 m/s2.
Momentum: Momentum is an objects increase towards motion. We calculated the momentum of the ball, which was 2.35 kgm/s.
Reflection
This project was pretty fun to do. I learned a lot about videoing and how to build a small video, along with some techniques to basketball. I think time management was less of an issue as of my last project, but it was still a small problem, as we could have used our time more wisely and completed more and still had a small amount of time at the end to "proofread." I think the best thing was putting the video together, because it wasn't that hard to do. Once we got all the right videos we put them all in imovie and put in the calculations.The worst thing was getting all the right videos and clips and putting them in a sensible order. It took us at least a couple of days to get it all together and to put all the voice recordings in the right spots. A couple of things i learned about myself is that i am really terrible at basketball, and that i am not very good at managing time. Our STEM physics of sports video is below, along with a video of cheese rolling(a great sport).