Class tues Oct 27

Today in class we continued to work on centrifical acceleration. While going over our homework, we first established our formula to find centrifical acceleration (V^2/R) We then went in depth a little more by finding a different way to do this. We used this other formula (4piR/T^2) It is very important to remember when using these formulas that this only calculates the magnitude of the acceleration (the direction is always perpendicular to the velocity) We then started to explore components and go in to more depth with Ac by looking a rocket powered six flags ride that looked really fun. From a simple youtube video, we were able to find tension force, the force of gravity, and the total net force as well as the radius. After a long day of note taking, Mr. Burk decided to be gracious by doing a fun demonstration of "blood" separating due to the high amount of gravitational force on a spinney thing, as well as let us watch a bunch of people experience high gravitational force on the spinney carnival ride. The science behind both of these demonstrations are that the high gravitational force is essentially pushing the substance against the surface causing them to "stick" Finally, Mr Burk gave us all a 5 minute demonstration of the lab that we will do tomorrow (while nearly tacking off my head). For some reason, my computer wont let me ut up my pictures of notes and/or the board.