De’Untre’ Griggs Mr. Hooks 30 September 2014 Physics/4 The Physics Of Dance Essay Physics and dance represent remarkably complementary approaches to human body movement. Those involved with dance and science can easily find the many aspects of science incorporated into the beauty of dance. With its graceful moves‚ jumps‚ turns‚ and kicks‚ dance is a representation of physics at its best and most elegant. Two dance moves in particular come to mind when I think of physics and its effects on dance. They are the grand jeté & projectile motion
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Erica Salas Triplet USU-1360 March 20‚2012 Reliance on Fossil Fuels and consequences Our “energy crisis” has been the big talk of politics ever since the early 1970’s. In 2007‚ the United States of America Energy Information Administration researched that eighty seven percent of global energy consumption comes from fossil fuels. The worlds most reliable industries provide fuel and electricity to modern societies and have made millions. People have high consumption lifestyle revolving around
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In soccer‚ the length of the ball in air when it is kicked is the hang time. Air resistance or adding a curve to the ball will increase its hang time. Hang time can be calculated by H= 1/2 g(gravitational acceleration)times t(time) times 1/2. As the player kicks the ball with the inside of his foot he creates a curve on the ball and increases hang time due to air resistance acting on it. Kicking the ball straight will have a low hang time and just keep it low to the ground. The higher the ball is
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Investigating Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion using an Air-track Introduction: My experiment is investigating the Newton’s 2nd law of motion by using an Air-track. The air-track can make the trolley frictionless by testing the velocity with different weights and shows that F=ma. Research question: How much acceleration does the frictionless trolley has? Aim: Use the air track to measure the acceleration of the no friction trolley by hanging with different mass of weights. Apparatus: *
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The moment of inertia is a measure of an object’s resistance to changes in its rotation. It must be very specific to the chosen axis of rotation. Also‚ it is specific to the mass and shape of the object‚ including the way that is mass is distributed in the object. Moment of inertia is usually quantified in kgm2. An object’s where the mass is concentrated very close to the center of axis of rotation will be easier to spin than an object of identical mass with the mass concentrated far from the axis
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Debate Opening Statement Can we change our impact on the rate of global warming? There are all these campaigns for us to combat global warming and reduce our emissions‚ we have all the science to maybe not stop it but effectively reduce it to stable conditions. It is evident that the temperatures and sea levels are rising and this proves global warming is out there; but it still doesn’t make a difference we still do nothing because Global warming is irreversible; we are so deep
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REPORT FOR EXPERIMENT 1 MEASUREMENT Group 5 Name: Tien Pham PHYS 2125 Class number 35818 Day: 1/14/1013 Instructor: Dilipkumar Mehta OBJECTIVES The purpose of the experiment is to determine the diameters and
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Vinny Candelora Physics current event 3/3/13 This has never been done before at high energies and represents a significant breakthrough‚ Cline said‚ adding that it also may have implications for fusion as a new energy source. In free space‚ a plane-wave laser is unable to accelerate an electron‚ according to the Lawson-Woodward theorem‚ posited in 1979. However‚ Yu-kun Ho‚ a professor at China’s Fudan University in Shanghai‚ and his research group have proposed a concept of what physicists refer
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ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY Department of Physics Thermal Physics Problem Set #3‚ Solution Date: 2013/03/29 1. If we apply the highly successful kinetic theory of gases to a metal‚ consider as a gas of electrons (in fact‚ back in 1900 Drude constructed the theory‚ hence the Drude theory of metals)‚ and assume that the electron velocity distribution is given by the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution‚ what would the most probable speed‚ average speed‚ and rms speed for electrons at room temperature
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play and watch soccer games all of the time and yet few people actually realize the physics that are involved in almost everything that they see or do. While there are multiple ways that physics is used in a soccer game‚ this paper explores three parts and the physics that are involved in each one. The three parts that are going to be discussed are passing‚ heading‚ and throw-ins. These three can explain how physics can work from a soccer ball coming or going in each and every direction. Also‚ every
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