Blog 2: Oops I Forgot

Yesterday I went outside to enjoy the day when an object crossed my view.  I returned a tennis ball that my five-year-old neighbor accidentally threw into my yard.  I needed to throw it over a 3.0m fence, but I wanted to throw it so that it barely cleared the fence.  I was standing .50m away from the fence and threw overhanded, releasing the ball at a height of 1.0m.  This created a parabolic shape since the acceleration is -9.8 m/s/s.  The vertical velocity stays constant despite gravity.

However, I forgot the extensiveness of my strength and accidentally launched the ball 2000m away into the neighborhood park.  I told my neighbor to go get it, but when her father started laughing and telling her to hurry up I felt bad.  I reluctantly pulled my neighbor behind me as she desperately tried to escape my grasp.  Once I got to the park I heard my name and I looked around.  I saw my friend Lawrence in a tree.

A Game Of Physics: Fan

I was lying in my bed today dreading the midnight deadline of the physics blog.  Filled with despair, I fell asleep.  I woke up 10 minutes ago and quickly did this.  In my haste, I slipped on the rug in my room and fell backwards.  After being unconscious for another 5 minutes, I opened my eyes in a daze and saw my ceiling fan.  In a trance of physical science enlightenment, I could see the physics in the operation of the ceiling fan.  When I turn the fan on, its acceleration increases at a constant rate, while its velocity increases from 0 m/s at a steady rate until it reaches a really fast pace that cools me. (I could not measure the actual speed without risking further injury.)  However, once the fan reaches its maximum speed, its acceleration drops to 0 m/s/s, while its velocity remains constant.  I let the maximum velocity fan cool me as I iced my head.