Today, we learned something that was pretty different from anything we have learned yet! They are drawing diagrams called free body diagrams. This means that we write/draw the object and situation and the forces are drawn on. This was pretty easy to understand after a while, because it is just as you would imagine, though the directions are hard to understand. We learned about the different types of forces, normal, tension, applied, weight (gravity), and sometimes, acceleration. We also learned that we had to make the arrows longer if the force is greater. This, of course, made things a bit more complicated but after lots of packets and practice, got easier. This applies to every day activities, such as just sitting down! When one is laying down and sleeping (like Sammy the dog), there are two forces, that of weight (gravity) pulling down, and the normal force pulling you up so that you do not fall through to the earth's core!!
haha I like the last line about not falling through the earth's core :P but this a great post, cause you talked about what we learned, as well as listed all the forces and how some of them are applied in everyday life!
ReplyDeleteCute the doggy! I agree that drawing the diagrams were pretty simple and got easier as we did more.
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