Monday, September 6, 2010
Playing Cats
Today while I was waking up after a nice long sleep my cats got the bright idea to start running around the room playing chase. Just as they started to run the accelerated from resting rate of zero to a faster acceleration. Many times their acceleration would change because the were about to run into something or decided changing directions to trick the other cat. But at times while the acceleration changed, their velocity would stay the same because neither the time or distance changed. At one point they got truly into the game and jumped my stomach. From the point they left the ground to the point when they landed on me, gravity acted upon them making their acceleration -9.8m/s^2. The distance from the ground to the peak was a larger length than from the peak to my stomach there for the time was larger for the first half. As the cat fell, from the peak it also experienced another change in direction as my stomach sank from the fall and then bounced back to its original position giving the cat a final velocity of 0m/s.
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I liked you observation of physics in daily things like playing with pets. And your story as a whole, super cute!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a creative example of physics in daily life! Your cat is so cute!
ReplyDeleteI love this picture! Great way to illustrate physics and quite a funny story!
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