Sunrise, sunset

This picture is a picture of me and my mom at the beach. We used to go a lot when I was a kid. I always watched the tide throughout the day. It’s funny how we can see the tide as much as we want and not remember that it is related to physics. Without the moon, and the force between it and the two sides of the earth, high tides and low tides wouldn’t happen. Both high and low tides happen twice per day, in intervals of six hours. A particularly important concept to understand about tides is the various stages such as the neap and spring tides. Neap tides occur either when the moon is full or there is a new moon. At this time, the tides will be particularly higher and the lows will be lower. Hurricane Sandy occurred during a neap tide, which was unfortunate because the high tides intensified its destruction. Spring tides occur when there is a half moon. So next time your at the beach, think of the physics in your life!

Physics of Football

While these videos might be cheesy, they really help describe the concept of impulse and momentum. They're short, sweet, and to the point. It really helps that it applies it to something interesting like football. The demonstrations done in this video really help show what is going on. For example, when the melon is thrown to the ground by itself, and then when it is protected by a helmet. This is the same concept we used during our egg toss. Hope you enjoy!

Teacher Teaching Tides

This video is very informative about tides. This teacher kind of teaches the way we learn in class, by going through a demonstration and then explaining the concept. I thought that this video was especially helpful because of the model of the sun moon and earth. It helped to get a visual on where the moon is which directly correlates with the tide cycle. I don't know if the tide chart is something we will be learning about. It might be something that you should just skip over in the video for now. Besides that, I hope you find this video useful!