For pep band, I attended the football game for Iolani and Damien. We were playing "Hot Hot Hot." Then as soon as we stopped playing, we heard a lot of yelling. One of the Iolani players was zipping down the field and no one could stop him, so Iolani got a touchdown =D Anyway, there was physics in that!
His displacement was about 35 yards (I don't know the exact amount because I didn't get to see the entire play). Displacement is the direction and distance of the shortest path between an initial and final position, so even if he traveled more than 35 yds while trying to get around other players, his displacement is a straight path. He must have accelerated because after he got out of the crowd of the other players, he could increase his velocity with less people blocking him. He had to decelerate and come close to a stop because one Damien player almost got him. Once he got around that other guy, he accelerated again. It was very exciting, yup.
I drew the picture because I don't have a camera to connect to the computer. The people in white are the Iolani players. The purple people are the Damien players. The guy in the very front is supposed to be holding the football, but it's hard to see.
1 comment:
I've never thought about this before, but yours is a great example of displacement... like when the punt returner goes back and forth to gain only a couple of yards. Nice, Cara
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