Bao nguyen Feruja zaman Co T Nguyen (aron) Sharad ponduri Phys 2211-360 Prof.

Susannah lomant

Investigating Physics Spirit on the Playground

Objective: Let us represent some of the physical forces that exist on playgrounds as we, Feruja, Aron, Ponduri and Bao, play a part in these few activities: sliding, climbing, swinging, and bouncing a tennis ball. Playgrounds are a great place to investigate how physics concepts are not only part of the engineers and the technology, yet it is everywhere. We would use the four different activities into different types of calculations to demonstrate the physical forces of velocity, torque, Materials: Meter Stick (with metric units) Paper and a pencil/pen Stopwatch A tape measure (with metric units) A Video Camera We know: mass of Bao: 79 kg mass of Ponduri: 73 kg mass of Feruja: 35 kg distance from the midpoint of the seat to pivot: 43 feet = 13.1 m We know: H: 52 inches = 16 m h: 14 inches = 4.3 m mass of Feruja: 35 kg.

Activity 1-SLIDE: Finding velocity at the bottom of the slide (ignore fiction)
Feruja was part of this experiment as she went down the slide. She sat at point A (top of the slide) and came down to point B (bottom of the slide). She had completed this experiment in 2.5 second. The height at point A is 52 inches, and the height at point B is 14 inches. Also, Ferujas mass is 35 kg. So, now we can use the numbers to plug into the appropriate formulas to figure out how fast was Feruja at point B. See worked out calculations below:

Activity 2- SEESAW: How to keep seesaw balance with three people

This experiment includes Bao, Ponduri, and Feruja. Bao sat on the right side of the seesaw and Ponduri sat on the left side. The distance from Bao to pivot is 43 feet, and distance was same for Ponduri. The mass of Bao is 79 kg, the mass of Ponduri is 73 kg, and the mass of Feruja is 35kg. We decided to let Feruja seat on the left side (same side where Ponduri was seating) to keep the seesaw balance. Now, we would take this scenario on mind and take the numbers to plug into appropriate formulas to figure out where Feruja would need to seat in order to keep the seesaw balance. See worked out calculations below:

Activity 3- Swinging:
Aron and Feruja were involved in this experiment. However, we changed Aron swings on a playground swing with a 2.5 m long chain.

a) What is the period of the Aron motion? for a pendulum T = 2*pi*sqrt (l/g) = 2*3.14*sqrt(2.5/9.8) T=3.1735 sec b) What is the frequency of the vibration? f = 1/T = 1/3.17=.315 swings/sec=.315 Hz

Activity 4- Bouncing a tennis ball:

This experiment was either performed by Bao or Ponduri. They both love playing with the tennis ball, and we decided to find the velocity of 55g or 0.055kg tennis ball using kinematics. When a problem asks the velocity as an object hits the ground, it means the instant it hits. Where V is the final velocity, v is the initial velocity, g is gravitational acceleration, y is the height.

If an object is dropped, the initial velocity is 0. Vf=vi+2gy = 0+2(9.80m/s2)(1.90m) Vf=37.24m/s2

We know: mass of Bao: 79 kg mass of Ponduri: 73 kg mass of Feruja: 35 kg distance from the midpoint of the seat to pivot: 43 feet = 13.1 m Question: How to find a seat for Feruja to make the seesaw balance? Analysis: To keep the seesaw balance, we should have: Tcc = Tc Tcc = (13.1 m) * Weight of Bao (79 kg * g) Tc= (13.1 m) * weight of Ponduri (73kg * g) + d * weight of Feruja (35 kg * g) Tcc = Tc

We know: H: 52 inches = 16 m h: 14 inches = 4.3 m mass of Feruja: 35 kg. Question: How fast Feruja at the point B?