Description: In this project we chose a sport and found as much physics as possible to make into a video. In our video, we decided to find the physics of air hockey. Though we did spend a lot of time playing air hockey, we also had to spend time calculating things. In our video we showed how we found the velocity, force, friction, potential energy, and kinetic energy of the puck. Terms:
Velocity: The speed and direction of a given object
Friction: The force resisting the relative motion of surfaces against each other
Force: A push or pull on an object
Potential Energy: Energy an object has stored due to it's position
Kinetic Energy: Energy an object has due to motion
Reflection: Overall, I feel that our project went pretty well. Though I had a lot of fun filming and editing the project, having air hockey as our sport posed a couple new problems. First, and most importantly, we could not film at school. For most groups all they had to do was bring their phones and a tennis racket or something and they're good to go. We were not allowed to bring an air hockey table to San Marin. Not only that, but none of us owned an air hockey table. If it weren't for my extremely generous aunt and uncle to let us borrow their table, we would be doing baseball or something boring like that. Secondly, this computer loves to crash. I don't know what got into this editing software that I use, but it would just crash over and over again. I had to start editing over twice over the course of this project. Two things that I feel we did poorly in this project would have to be the video quality, and the physics. Not that the resolution was bad in our video, but it was pretty dark for the first part of the video. I also feel like the physics part of the video was a little hasty and didn't explain it as in-depth as it could have been (my fault though). Our project wasn't all bad. Our group worked pretty well, overall. We were very organized. We planned out all of what we were going to do before we went to film, and when we went to film, we got it done. Though my editing software didn't like me, I am used to it and I feel I can work efficiently around it's twists and turns.