18 (2nd order, Galileo)

Posted on October 20, 2018 by daskey

Here are the more important screenshots from last week:

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.1 Go ahead and back fill all the boxes behind the Boltzmanns (and Rockets).

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.2 If you grade goes down after the A and B tests, you can get back in the game with GBB. Also, always keep up your Notebook, Packets, and stamps. If you do, you’ll end up with an A of B in class.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.3 problem 2.6.2

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.4 Problem 2.6.5

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.5 1st hour data

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.6 2nd hour data

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.7 3rd hour data

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.8 6th hour data

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.9 7th hour data

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.10 A nice simple drawing capturing the essence of acceleration. Now we just have to graph it.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.11 The world’s first true physics equation. It’s about as far as Galileo got before receiving the glass from the Danes. The crazy thing was that he figured out the relationship between position and time for an object undergoing acceleration due to gravity and he did it all WITHOUT the benefit of graph paper because Rene Descartes hadn’t hadn’t been invented yet.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.12A One way to figure out which class got closest to the truth (in other words, who was the most accurate) is to look at what the acceleration should have been theoretically and then see what each classes acceleration really was. THis FBD of the forces acting on the ball will lead us to the correct theoretical value for acceleration. We will do lots of these FBD later in the year. They come in pretty handy.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.12B FBD’s are the most important thing you will learn in this class. DOn’t worry , this is just a preview. I’ll work this one this week to determine what the acceleration should be for the ball vs. what each class found it to be and we will see who gets the stamp.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.13 Love this quote.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.14 about right

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.15 Look at the detail of the original (or one of the original) telescopes made by Galileo and Salviati (his assistant.)

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.16 Some of the optics that wouldn’t be figured out until Newton did his early work with prisms.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.17 We discussed where all the energy in our solar system comes from in the core of the sun. This over simplified view of the fusion of protons is wrong . . .

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.18 This is the correct flow chart.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.19 some of the byproducts of the nuclear fusion reaction in the core of the sun.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.20 The greatest irony of our solar system. Deadly gamma rays produced in the core of the sun is the source of all life on earth.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.21 It takes the gamma rays (wavelength around 10pm) anywhere from 50,000 years to 10 million years to get from the core of the sun to the surface of the sun (then only 8.2 minutes to get to earth). The deadly gamma wave is destructively interfered with by other wavelets of energy while it is on its outer journey inside the sun. When waves are destructively interfered with they lose some of their energy (which shows up as lower frequency). By the time the wave packet of energy that was originally 10pm in wavelength gets to the surface of the sun and is ready for the 8.2 minute journey to the earth its wavelengths are scattered somewhere between from 10nm (UV) to 1mm (far IR). So that original deadly gamma ray gives us our heat, our visible light and the still dangerous UV light.

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.24 the journey of the deadly gamma ray

: PhyFl18–SS2.2.26 It looks like at least three groups of physics students have taken on the task of hanging mars and venus somewhere in Norman.

10/8-10/12/18 (Red Duets, Acceleration)

Posted on October 13, 2018 by daskey

Here is what happened this week: I will add captions as I get time this week:

: PhyFl18SS2.1 A Red Duet. The graph below is the slope (derivative) graph of the graph above. When you have a negative slope, you turn it into an upside down right triangle. When you have a positive slope you turn that into a right side up right triangle. Pick a color for all the negative slopes (velocities) and another color for all the positive slopes (velocities).

: PhyFl18SS2.2 Here’s another Red Duet. Here we started with the velocity vs. time graph on bottom and from there we found the position vs. time by finding the areas (called integration) of the segments of the graph below.

: PhyFl18SS2.3 we are doing the same thing here, but here the equations for integration are introduced.

: PhyFl18SS2.4 Here is the symbols for integration and what each part of it means.

: PhyFl18SS2.5 Here’s another example of integrals. Basically, taking the integral of a function is telling you how much area is accumulating as you go from left to right.

: PhyFl18SS2.6 Good use of color.

: PhyFl18SS2.7 Finger dance

: PhyFl18SS2.9 Will add caption later

: PhyFl18SS2.8 what showmen!

: PhyFl18SS2.8b Finger Dancing with pearls.

: PhyFl18SS2.10 Socrates –> Plato –> Aristotle –> Alexander the Great. Greatest Teacher student combo in history.

: PhyFl18SS2.11 5 old dudes and a young grad student.

: PhyFl18SS2.12 Will add caption later

: PhyFl18SS2.13 good notes

: PhyFl18SS2.14 A rabbit is made up of only four elements. See how easy it was back then. Chemistry must have been an “easy A” back then.

: PhyFl18SS2.15 A famous painting of Copernicus. Notice his Heliocentric view of the universe is shown behind him.

: PhyFl18SS2.16 Geocentric view of the universe. Thanks Aristotle for setting us back 2000 years.

: PhyFl18SS2.17 Copernicus in the game “Assassin’s Creed”.

: PhyFl18SS2.18 Leo’s main goal in life was to fly. Here he thinks about how he would accelerate towards the ground if he jumped off the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He was the first to try to quantify the acceleration due to the Earth’s pull. He was wrong, but at least he started thinking about it.

: PhyFl18SS2.19 My favorite self drawing of Da Vinci.

: PhyFl18SS2.20 Galileo’s proposed wings

: PhyFl18SS2.21 Galileo’s wings. Not a big tat guy, but this one is awesome.

: PhyFl18SS2.22 We had about 50 students in the room to see Dr. Nash.

: PhyFl18SS2.23 Dr. Nash presenting. He’s got a big week this week with his big proof of concept.

: PhyFl18SS2.24 Giovanni Bruno burning at the stake in 1600.

: PhyFl18SS2.25 1604 was the beginning of Physics.

: PhyFl18SS2.26 A young Galileo

: PhyFl18SS2.27 Galileo’s finger on display at the Galileo Museum in Florence. There is a really interesting story to this.

: PhyFl18SS2.28 Galileo recanting his beliefs in front of the Inquisition. It was either recant of burn at the stake like Bruno in 1600.

: PhyFl18SS2.29 A very good recreation of Galileo’s ramp he used trying to determine acceleration due to the Earth’s pull. He added the bells in later trials.

: PhyFl18SS2.30 Galileo’s bells

: PhyFl18SS2.31 . . .

: PhyFl18SS2.32 We will be rolling on Monday as well.

: PhyFl18SS2.33 Friday night in the Physics building

: PhyFl18SS2.34 A new classic photo with Einstein in the Physics building

9/24 – 9/28/18 (Cir.Mot.;Duets)

Posted on September 29, 2018 by daskey

Here are the most important screenshots from this week:

: PhyFl18SS1.7.1 sheet 1.7.5 ant crawling around basketball.

: PhyFl18SS1.7.2 sheet 1.7.6 A little circular motion GSUA

: PhyFl18SS1.7.3 Sheet 1.7.7 You can think about any type of linear motion on the surface of the earth as if it were circular motion since the world is a big ball. just like the ant crawling around the basketball.

: PhyFl18SS1.7.4 sheet 1.9.(the top of the back) From our pinwheels in the courtyard.

: PhyFl18SS1.7.5 Sheet 1.9.5 The birth of the cosine function. That’s all sines and cosines are. They are circular motion spread out over time. Actually, they are one dimension of that circular motion spread out over time. In this case here, the vertical component of the circular motion is laid out over time. See the animation on my website. If you can get this one thing down it will make physics and math so much easier for you.

: PhyFl18SS1.7.6 1st hour trippin run.

: PhyFl18SS1.7.7 1st hour x vs. t piecewise function from the trippen run showing the 5 different interval velocities and the overall average velocity

: PhyFl18SS1.7.8 2nd hour trippin run

: PhyFl18SS1.7.9 2nd hour x vs. t piecewise function from the trippen run showing the 5 different interval velocities and the overall average velocity.

: PhyFl18SS1.7.10 3rd hour trippin run

: PhyFl18SS1.7.11 3rd hour x vs. t piecewise function from the trippen run showing the 5 different interval velocities and the overall average velocity

: PhyFl18SS1.7.12 6th hour trippin run

: PhyFl18SS1.7.13 6th hour x vs. t piecewise function from the trippen run showing the 5 different interval velocities and the overall average velocity

: PhyFl18SS1.7.14 7th hour trippin run

: PhyFl18SS1.7.15 7th hour x vs. t piecewise function from the trippen run showing the 5 different interval velocities and the overall average velocity

: PhyFl18SS1.7.16 the old baseball example of distance vs. displacement. For example: If I hit a double, my distance would be 180 ft, but my displacement would be 127 ft.

: PhyFl18SS1.7.17 An example of a weighted average a teacher might do for grades.

: PhyFl18SS1.7.18 This is a new type of graph for us. It is called a slope graph. It is also called a derivative graph. In this case it is a velocity vs. time graph. It shows what the five interval velocities of the trippin run. This is a VERY important screenshot. It is where we are going next and it is the beginning of your journey into graphical calculus. This graph is the derivative part of the x vs. t graph. Together they form red duets. An example of a weighted average for our step function can be seen by comparing the darker flat segment compared to the 5 orange segments. The darker segment is the weighted average of the 5 orange segments.

9/17-9/21 (Vectors,Cir Mot)

Posted on September 23, 2018 by daskey

I will continue to add captions. All should be added by 10:00PM, 9/23/18.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.1 The resultant vector needs to be in a different color. A proper description of a vector requires magnitude, units,angle, quadrant.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.2 All angles are measured from the horizontal (with some exceptions) If it is a map view, this is how you describe the quadrant that you are in.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.3 A displacement vector (or any vector for that matter always starts at the begining and is a straight arrow to the end. The path that the object takes does not matter. ∆s in blue is a displacement vector. It only cares about the beginning position and the final position. The displacement vector of my life would start in Ponca City Hospital and probably end where I am teaching at NHS. It doesn’t care where I have visited and lived in my life. It only cares about where I was born and where I died. It would be a 124 milelong straight displacement vector.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.4 A vector at an angle is the hypotenuse of a right triangle. So if you are going at 4 yds/sec at 45° N of E, you represent that with an arrow that has a length of 4 yds/sec (at whatever scale you assigned that velocity vector), but you are also going 2.8yds/sec east and 2.8 yards per second north. You are actually going all three velocities at once. Weird, huh? Either we do it this way with 2D motion or you learn how to plot everything in 3D (∆x,∆y, and ∆t).

: PhyFl18SS1.6.5 We went out to the courtyard and did a couple of pinwheels. From this exercise, you should start to get a feel of circular world vs. linear world. We all went the same omega (angular velocity), but we went different 2D linear velocities.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.6 Still on the courtyard pinwheels. If we say it took us 10 seconds, then we had an angular velocity of 2π/4 radians per 10 seconds (=π/20 radians per second)

: PhyFl18SS1.6.7 So far we have talked about displacement and velocity being vectors (magnitude and direction) and time is a scalar (no direction). What about baby omega? Is it a vector or a scalar?

: PhyFl18SS1.6.8 It turns out that omega (angular velocity) IS a vector. But what about it’s direction. Since the object is rotating (or at least going in circles) how do you represent this circular motion with a straight arrow? You gotta go third dimension bro. So you represent the omega with an arrow coming out of the page for counter clockwise rotation (CCW). You represent an arrow coming out of the page with a dot and a circle around it (sometimes just a dot)

: PhyFl18SS1.6.9 You represent clockwise rotation (CW) with an arrow going INTO the page. An arrow into the page looks like the arrows tail feathers left an impression on the page (like an “x”). The arrow is along the axis of rotation.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.10 Circular world vs. linear world. For wevery relationship (think equation) in linear world, there is a corresponding equation in circular world.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.11 Definition of a radian. The question came up . . . “Why don’t radians have any units?” Because they are a ratio of the arc length of a circle (∆s) and the radius of that d

: PhyFl18SS1.6.12 From the three base equations (on the left) we derived a very useful, very important equation in Physics which bridges linear world to circular world. You will have to know this derivation for TEST 1B. .

: PhyFl18SS1.6.13 Here’s the good old what is the omega of the second, minute, and hour hand which you will find in every Physics textbook.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.14 converting radians per second to rpm (revolutions per minute) Like what your tachometer measures on the dashboard of your car.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.15 From that bridge equation we derived, here is another useful minibridge equation relating linear velocity to angular velocity.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.16 I spun the wheelchair tire in front of the classroom and you timed it. We got 5.7 radians/sec. when multiplied by the radius of the tire we see that the outside of the tire is rotating at 1.6m/s

: PhyFl18SS1.6.17 The period (Tp) is the time it takes an object to complete one revolution. Like the period of the earth is 24 hours or the period of the earth around the sun is 365 days. Period can also mean the time it takes a pendulum to come back to its original position. Period is the inverse of frequency.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.18 Here we were looking at the period of the spinning wheel in front of the class.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.19 Period talk.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.20 The wheel spinning up front. Using the brige equation to determine its velocity.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.21 Here we are trying to figure out how many miles per hour the spinning wheel would be going it it were attached to a bicycle.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.22 The point I was trying to make with this discussion was that the moon is moving at 2300mph, but appears to us to be moving hardly at all. The reason for this is the very long radius. Since omega = v/r. Since r is soooo big, it wipes out the huge v. the omega is what we perceive as we stand below an object rotating above our head. A jet may be going at 600mph, but because its radius (from us) is, say, 50,000 ft, it doesn’t have a very big omega so it doesn’t seem like it is going that fast to us. There are probably those out there who would call its speed of 600mph “fake news” because they themselves do not understand circular motion kinematics.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.23 so when the radius is large compared to the velocity, the object appears to be going slow to us down below. This sounds like a good essay question for Test 1B.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.24 THT1A.18

: PhyFl18SS1.6.25 THT1A.18

: PhyFl18SS1.6.26 If you see “SH” on your test from ym grading it means you should have used a ruler. It stands for “shaky hands”

: PhyFl18SS1.6.27 If you see this on your test from my grading it means that I followed your mistake so you missed less than you would have if I was a computer and was grading your test.

: PhyFl18SS1.6.28 It is much better the search the Facebook group for what your are looking for than the scroll scroll scroll.

9/10 – 9/14/18 (2D Kinematics, GSUA, Cir Mot)

Posted on September 15, 2018 by daskey

I will be adding captions as I get time. . .

: PhyFl18SS1.5.1 Cantina opened this week!

: PhyFl18SS1.5.2 Here is a unit analysis you all did on the board. It turns out it takes light 1.28 seconds to reflect off the moon and hit the earth.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.3 I paid off 1st hour 3 dozen donuts to keep me out of the limelight. I was worth it.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.4 Here is the sample problem from 1.6

: PhyFl18SS1.5.5 Newton’s is a suitcase. Meaning that it is combo unit that contains smaller units. Many times, you have to open these suitcases when you are doing unit analysis. Other examples of suitcases are Joules (kg.m.m / s. s) and Watts (kg . m . m / s . s. s) but we’ll worry about those later this year.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.6 You can’t have double decker fractional units in Unit Analysis. units can be multiplied inside a cell, but they can’t divided inside a cell. I will explain this better in class.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.7 Free Body Diagrams (FBDs) are used to show all the force vectors acting on an object. Here was the example we did in class of a car driving down a horizontal highway at a constant speed of 60mph.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.8 On 1.6.3 the object was a volleyball moving through the air. So in that case there are only two main forces acting on the ball. The force of gravity and the air drag (Ra)

: PhyFl18SS1.5.9 Here is most of the GSUA for 1.6.3 I ran out of room here, but you can see the whole thing on the Key to 1.6 on the Facebook Group.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.10 In general here is what GSUA looks like. You do your labeled drawing, determine the correct equation and isolate the desired variable in the top row, then you are ready to lay out your givens (just as they are written in the problem. After you do that, you draw the squiggly line, then all that is left to do is multiply by a bunch of conversions which are really just clever forms of 1.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.11 The famous pesky fly problem.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.12 heres how one student solved it

: PhyFl18SS1.5.1 Here is a clever solution involving a graph. I actually used this method to quickly solve the problem on the THT1A.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.1 Another students work in solving the Pesky Fly. (1.7.2)

: PhyFl18SS1.5.1 Here is the complicated drawing from 1.7.3 I just noticed that I never took a pic of the position vs. time graphs on the other board, but that is okay, because I have the key posted on the Facebook Group.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.1 Remember, in better way to write, you are trying to substitute the given unit for a unit that will eliminate as much of the scientific notation as possible. It’s why I don’t say that it is 442,000 inches to the Warren Theater. That is true, but there is a Better Unit to use (miles in this case)

: PhyFl18SS1.5.13 BWTW example

: PhyFl18SS1.5.14 BWTW example

: PhyFl18SS1.5.15 Sam Nobel Museum where the Astronomy talks are held.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.16 This actually doubled the record of students voluntarily attending an Astronomy lecture.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.17 even more students!

: PhyFl18SS1.5.18 my sloppy notes from the talk on Galaxy formation

: PhyFl18SS1.5.19 Well, there are at least 3 out of 4 Alberts at the Astronomy Talk.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.20 Circular motion will end up being Black Kinematics

: PhyFl18SS1.5.21 Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter of the circle

: PhyFl18SS1.5.22 Doesn’t matter how big the circle is, The ratio is ALWAYS pi (3.14 . . )

: PhyFl18SS1.5.23 Us doing a pinwheel out in the hallway.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.24 We started talking about baby omega.

: PhyFl18SS1.5.25 We ended up doing a quick UA getting radians per secon into Revolutions per minute (rpm).

9/5 – 9/7/18 (2D Motion, Tribes, Red Day, Quiz 1)

Posted on September 8, 2018 by daskey

Only three days this week. Really only one day of new material.

: PhyFl18SS1.4.1 problem 1.2.7

: PhyFl18SS1.4.2 Problem 1.2.7

: PhyFl18SS1.4.3 Here is our path in Trial 5

: PhyFl18SS1.4.4 Here is the temporal graphs for the 2 dimensional graphs Problem 1.2.8. Notice that when you are awake in one dimension, you are asleep in the other dimension.

: PhyFl18SS1.4.5 Problem 1.2.8

: PhyFl18SS1.4.6 We went out in the hall and did another activity in two dimensions (i rooof and j rooof)

: PhyFl18SS1.4.7 So what if we were moving 45° North of West? In that case we would be awake in BOTH axes at the same time.

: PhyFl18SS1.4.8 Student teachers helping the class with the THTQ1.1

: PhyFl18SS1.4.9 Student teachers helping the class with the THTQ1.1 Here is another version of work. Since we haven’t learned the Gold Standard yet, I will accept these chicken scratches.

: PhyFl18SS1.4.10 Student teachers helping the class with the THTQ1.7c

: PhyFl18SS1.4.11 Student teachers helping the class with the THTQ1.11

: PhyFl18SS1.4.12 Student teachers helping the class with the THTQ1.11

8/27-8/30/18 (Red Kinematics, Metrics, 2D)

Gallery

Posted on September 1, 2018 by daskey

This gallery contains 26 photos.

8/22-8/24/18 (Red Kinematics)

Posted on August 25, 2018 by daskey

This is from Wed,Thurs,Fri. Remember, you can print out any of these screenshots and captions and tape them into your notebook when ever you want as long as it is done before Packet 1 Notebook check on October 2nd.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.1 We started off Wednesday’s discussion trying to sit as still as possible. No matter how we tried, we couldn’t really be motionless because the room was moving, Oklahoma was moving! In order to be motionless we would have to stop the world from spinning on its axis. Knowing the circumference at the equator (approx 3900 miles) we can figure out how fast we are moving. The circumference of the Earth is approx 24,000 miles (to 2 siggies). So since it takes us 24 hours to go around once, we are moving at 1000 miles/hour at the equator. But what about Oklahoma? We don’t have as far to go. Connor did some work and figured out that we are moving at 850mph just sitting in your chair. So if I could stop the orld spinning on its axis, would that make you motionless?

: PhyFl18ss1.2.2: No! Because the earth is orbiting the sun. So how fast is that? On average, the earth is 92,000,000 miles away from the sun. So let’s do the same thing we did with how fast we are moving on a spinning earth: See the Unit Analysis above (we’ll practice that method A LOT as the year goes on). When we run the numbers we find that the earth is blazing through the vacuum of space at 66,000 miles per hour!! WOW! That’s cray cray. So . . . if I can stop the earth moving through space, can I finally say that you are motionless sitting in your chair?

: PhyFl18ss1.2.3 In 1718, Isaac Newton realized that that there was all this motion going on (earth spinning and orbiting) and he felt like there had to be an ultimate reference point. The earth and the other planets had to be sitting in something, right? There had to be a nonmoving medium for those light waves from the sun to travel through. (For example, sound waves need a medium (air, water, or solid) to travel through). So Newton logically concluded that there had to be this fabric of space that allowed light to travel and that fabric he called “The Luminous Aether” Since Newton was a true stable genius pretty much everyone agreed that this sounded pretty damn smart and the Aether (we spell it ether today) was there eventhough we couldn’t see it, feel it, or smell it. Finally, in 1887 Michaelson and Morely actually used a series of very expensive experiments involving an interferometer at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio. To find evidence of the Ether Wind. No matter how precise their instruments, they couldn’t find any evidence of the Eather Wind. We finally had to conclude that there IS NO ETHER. The Earth , Sun and Planets are just floating in . . . . in . . . pure nothingness. Today we know that there is really no such thing as nothingness, but that is a whole different discussion.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.4 So even Galileo and Newton assumed that the sun was not moving. Well . . . turns out it moves at around 500,000 mile per hour on its journey around the Super Massive Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. A Galactic Year is how long it takes the sun to go around once. Since our solar system is around 4,500,000,000 years old that means we are somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 galactic years old. Still teenagers! When we were 17, there were dinosaurs walking around the Earth.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.5: So if I could stop our solar system would that finally make us motionless? NOPE! Locally, the Milky Way is on a crash course with much bigger The Andromeda Galaxy. But . . . didn’t Edwin Hubble figure out that all Galaxies are spreading apart? True, but there are local exceptions to this general rule. One POSSIBLE explanation is that there is a clump of Dark Matter between the Milky Way and Andromeda that is attracting us together. We are coming together at a speed of 250,000 miles per hour. Yikes! See the Facebook group for the animation show coming attraction over the next 8 Billion years.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.6 Fritz Zwicky proposed this idea of Dark Matter in 1933 (he was laughed at and mostly ignored). I wish he had called it the Dark Attractor, because it isn’t matter like we think about. Neil De Grass Tyson proposes calling Dark Gravity, but I don’t like that either because it doesn’t follow the rules of gravity. There is also Dark Energy out there (or right here in this room). It spends all its time trying to rip you limb from limb, it wants to rip your molecules apart, it want separate your atoms, it would love to separate the quarks that make up your protons. Dark Energy is a bad descriptor, because this doesn’t act like that energy you learned about in Chemistry (remember Joules?) I propose that we call Dark Energy The Dark Separator. People fear or love Slender Man. I guess the Dark Separator is the Slender Man of the Universe. No one’s relly seen it but we know he is there. Out there somewhere . . . waiting. If The Dark Separator wins the Universe will end in a “heat death”.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.7 So if you could stop the Milky Way from moving, then you still have the problem that spacetime itself is expanding (daggone it Einstein and Hubble!) So we have to settle with this definition of motionless.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.8 Back to the basics. Here is the graph of out four “journeys” on the West Lawn. And the corresponding 4 equations.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.9: OUR FIRST EQUATION!! We call this the Red Equation.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.10 These are the four Equations from the graph on Sheet 1.3. We left the numbers with 2 siggies.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.11: So I guess we ought to talk about scalars and vectors. x, y, and z are just position points. They have no direction. All changes (capital delta (∆)) in position involve MOVING from point A to point B so they are called VECTORS.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.12 Scalar vs. Vector

: PhyFl18ss1.2.13: Delta (∆) represents change. So what if the change is very tiny. No, I mean VERY tiny. As the delta triangle gets smaller and smaller and smaller it eventually gets so smaller it becomes infinitely small at that point we call the change “lil d”

: PhyFl18ss1.2.14 “lil d” means instantaneous change in position, in velocity, in acceleration, in temperature, in jerk, in time, in whatever you want.

: PhyFl18ss1.2.15 Who was the first one to think of “lil d”? Actually two people in the 1700’s. Isaac Newton (English Genius) and Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (German Genius).

: PhyFl18ss1.2.16 This is from Sheet 1.3 The 4th function you were supposed to come up with the equation for. Remember, to find the slope, it is just the “rise” (which is negative ∆x in this case) over the”run (which is positive ∆t)

8/20-8/21/18 Kinematics Intro (Red)

Posted on August 21, 2018 by daskey

We’ve been doing a lot of introductory stuff, but we finally got going late in the hour on Monday. We went out to the West Lawn and uniformly walked from the sidewalk by the science lot to the sidewalk by Main Street (50 meters). We timed ourselves doing it. Then we uniformly jogged from the sidewalk by Main street to the sidewalk by the science lot. That was about it for Monday. We came back in, I handed out sheet 1.2 and we wrote down our times. The following Screenshots are from Tuesday (8/21/18) The discussions went many different ways in the five classes, but here is what each of the discussions had in common. In other words, here’s the part you are responsible for so far:

: This is just a brief introduction to sig figs. We also call them siggies, significant figures, significant digits and just plain sigs.

: The more significant figures there are, the more accurate your number, but the accuracy comes at a price.

: Fractions can’t be used for measured numbers (or the manipulation of measured numbers). The reason is that you can’t show sig figs with fractions. For instance 22/7 is the fraction for pi which has an infinite number of digits. Obviously, no instrument is that accurate, so you have to “round and truncate” pi to show the proper number of sig figs. We’ll talk about sig figs more later. This is good enough for this first introduction.

: Here is our plot of the first walk from the science lot sidewalk to the main Street sidewalk. It also includes our first Physics equation. THis happens to be from 3rd hour.

: This is from 6th hour’s discussion. Notice the 2nd line is from the run BACK from Main Street (negative slope).

: Here is 7th hour’s discussion graph so far.

5/21-5/25/18 (W-K, Torque)

Posted on May 26, 2018 by daskey

Here are the pics and screenshots with captions from last week:

: PhySP18SS6.7.1: Add your pics to the wall!

: PhySP18SS6.7.2: Ultimate fighting Tool used to solve a free fall problem. The mark of a great question is that it reduced down to other lesser equations (like the 3rd Blue)

: PhySP18SS6.7.4: 6.15.12 Using UFT to solve a problem

: PhySP18SS6.7.5: A very famous graph in Physics. E = K + U which means Total Mechanical Energy = Kinetic Energy plus Potential Energy. And . . . the Total Mechanical Energy (E) is conserved which means you can’t lose any or gain any in a closed system.

: PhySP18SS6.7.6: The difference between dot products and cross products. Pretty much everything you do all day is a series of dot products and cross products. Anything involving changing energy is a dot product of two vectors and anytime there is any rotation it is a crossproduct. Heck, if there is light anywhere around you it is the combination of two dot products and two cross products.

: PhySP18SS6.7.7: THe Natural Balance Point is pretty much what it sounds like it is. It is the point that gravity recognizes. As far as gravity is concerned ALL the mass of the object is at the NBP. The NBP has an equal mass distribution radially (called the moment of Inertia (I).

: PhySP18SS6.7.8: Torque is the only type of cross product we use, but there are many more.

: PhySP18SS6.7.9: 3D torque. Sometimes I forget how awesome torque is.

: PhySP18SS6.7.10: Messing around with torque in general. This doesn’t go to a particular problem. We jsut made this one up. It is a static problem so it can’t move in any direction OR rotate.

: PhySP18SS6.7.11: We made this one up too.

: PhySP18SS6.7.12: yep, made it up

: PhySP18SS6.7.13: This is from Sheet 6.16.1 Only 1st hour did this one.

: PhySP18SS6.7.15: 6.16.2

: PhySP18SS6.7.16: 6.16.3

: PhySP18SS6.7.17: THT6B.12 the second one with Levi and Daniel and all that crazy organic manure.

: PhySP18SS6.7.18: 6.16.5 which also helps you with THT6B.15

: PhySP18SS6.7.19: 6.16.6

: PhySP18SS6.7.21: THT6B.14 It’s fine if you just want to think of phi as the reference angle, but just so you know it is actually the obtuse angle that extends from the LOA all the way around to radial pointer vector. This has to be the case because Torque has to be negative for this situation since it is causing clockwise motion. All clockwise rotation is negative. So . . . since torque = |r| |F| sin (phi) phi must be in the 3rd or fourth quadrant for sin (phi) to be negative. If that didn’t make sense, don’t worry, it’s too late in the year to worry about it.

: PhySP18SS6.7.23: THT6B.14

: PhySP18SS6.7.24: The fishing pole one. 6.16.7

: PhySP18SS6.7.25: The Matrix version of the cross product solution. This looks hard, but turns out to be laughably easy..

: PhySP18SS6.7.26: 6.16.10 This is the reason WHY it becomes so easy. As long as you can get a column of your 3 x 3 matrix a column of zeros, your life is easy. This will be the case for your test next week.

: PhySP18SS6.7.27: more torque stuff

: PhySP18SS6.7.28: more torque stuff

: PhySP18SS6.7.29: more torque stuff

: PhySP18SS6.7.30: We used to have a torque building contest where you had to have to make a mobile which has at least four different torque and hang it from the ceiling. What happened to all those?

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