Blog #5

         In physics we continue to learn about kinematics. This week we focused more on objects and it being tossed into the air. In class we did a lab to collect data of a ball and its trip in the air. Three different graphs were used with the data to show the graphs relationships. The three graphs were a distance over time graph, a velocity over time graph and a acceleration over time graph. These three graphs provided proof that objects thrown in the air go fast, slow, stop at the point, then goes slow to fast again. When the object gets back to its starting point it is going as fast as it was when it was tossed up. The picture above is of me "skurfing". When doing this we can turn towards the wake and ramp up it to get into the air. The hard part about it is landing because we are hitting the water at the same speed from when I ramped up the wake. Landing at the water at that high speed makes it hard to not tumble over. The cool part about jumping the wake is that at one point we are hanging in mid-air, even though it may only be for a split second.