Sunday, October 5, 2008
Friction and Force
This weekend, my family went to dinner at a Japanese Restaurant. After everyone ate the food, my brother and cousins were sliding the shoyu container across the table to each other while we waited for the adults to finish talking. I then realized that this could be applied to what we we're learning in physics! The shoyu container had forces working on it while in motion. The gravitational force of its weight and the normal force pushing upward worked while the force of the hand pushing the container caused it to move. Also, the friction from the table kept the shoyu container in equilibrium. I took this video of my brother sliding the container toward the camera, demonstrating Newton's First and Second Laws.
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super awesome action footage. bonus for being the first blog with a video! btw, where is this place, "Japanese Restaurant"? what an interesting name, kinda like "The Bus" haha
haha it's not really called that, i don't remember what its called, some sushi/bar place
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