Science In The Real World


Week 22

I was randomly talking to Gaby one day and she told me that her ear hurts. Don't ask me how it came up in our conversation. But yea, back to the ear. Sometime ear pain is caused by loud things like music being played extremely loud, ear picking, just digging in your ear like it's your nose will cause irratation.



Week 21
I was hanging out with one my friends, Xavier today and he just randomly said that he was Caffiene high. Though, the soda was Caffiene free, i still wanted to know whether or not that was possible. You won't get high but there are some effects of drinking too much caffiene. Like, restlessness, nervousness, excitement, muscle twitching, insomnia.


Week 20
One day I was watching tv and videos of hurricane Katrina and the results of it. It was a sad sight, I almost cried. So, I researched why this natural disaster happened. Some say that it was a sign from trying to show us it's pain, others say that hurricane Katrina began because of a clash between a tropical wave and tropical depression ten in the bahama's.


Week 19
One of my favorite things to do is play video games. I play mostly shooting games and all shooting games are is reactions. An action in reponse to something. How this happens is that your eyes or ears will see or hear something and react.


Week 18
ALL about The DENTIST :P
so chelsea had this really kewl idea that i should use the dentist for one of my blog things. =)
well she said the the little machine things that they use to drill your teeth have wheel and
axles in them anyways we learned in class that a wheel and axle are used in simple machines
so yeah heres a shout out to her :P thanks chelly


Week 17
In skateboarding, the board goes because of the force that someone puts into the push against the ground. Depending on how hard you push(Amount of force) is how fast you go. It explains why most people only use three pushes to get speed because they don't want to have too much speed because it will go too fast.



Week 16
I was watching tv and realized that I was moving though it wasn't visible. I was rotating in a circle along witht the rest of earth. The earth rotates as it circles the sun. When were walking, were rotating. And for people that are in the southern hemisphere are standing upside down!


Week 15
When I was watching my brother play basketball, I noticed that at the begining of the game he was very energized and running around just fine but in the second half he became slightly slower. When he became slower I saw that he wasn't tired. When he was running around in the first half he sweated so much that it soaked his shirt 'til the point that it weighed him down. Slight things can weigh the human body down.



Week 14
Have you ever watched a basketball player spin a basketball on his finger and do it for a very long time. Well, it's once again science. The ball spins on he/she's finger for a long amount of time because of gyroscopic interia, the balls axis and gravity. Your finger keeps the balls from going down from the pull of gravity and the balls axis keeps it straight up. Gyroscopic interia makes the ball spin and not fall off.


Week 13
Today in P.E we played team handball. The objective of the game is to throw the ball into the goal and don't let the other team throw it into yours. Simple. Like soccer. When you throw the ball at the goal, the goalie has to have incredible reflexes and react to where the ball is going. The spinal cord sends a message to the muscles and they react.


Week 12
What? I can't hear you. Maybe it's because I'm not standing in front of you. That's what life would be like without diffraction. Diffraction allows sound waves and light waves go around corners and spread out. Try to imagine a world with diffraction it would be scary.

Week 11
In science today we used a spiral and put it above a fire. The fire creates heat which goes up to the top of the room but since there's an object in the way it moves it to get to the ceiling.

Week 10
Today in P.E we had to run the twenty minute run. When I was running I saw that it was easier to lift up my feet then to drag them. If I dragged them it caused friction and when I lifted them gravity acted upon my foot to pull it back down which helps you run.


Week 9
Today, i was walking up the this hill AKA steepy. I eventually got to the top and looked back down the hill and noticed the steepness of it. I started laughing because we were learning about inclined planes and I just went up an inclined plane. I realized that simple machines aren't recongized as much as they should be.





Week 8
I was watching the super bowl last weekend.(It was awesome.) Anyways, I was watching it and then a cornerback named Tracy Porter intercepted a pass from Peyton Manning. I was thinking about the amount of force it took him to do that. Then a tv show came on called sports science and they explained how much it took. For the man to jump up took 60 lbs of force and then to catch it took 20 lbs of force and then to come down took 40 lbs which ended up being a grand total of 120 lbs of force to make that catch.


Week 7
During P.E today I was was serving the volleyball and hit the ball and it swerved way right. I thought about it later and saw that when the ball went all the way to the side I hit the ball too hard and wrong place which is what made the play swerve all the way to the right. I was able to serve the ball again and this time I hit it in the right place and the ball went right in the middle of the court.





Week 6

During P.E today i was playing volleyball with Mohammad. He was throwing the ball to me and I was trying to him them back and they would either fly over his head or be too short. I finally realized that the amount of force or newtons that I was putting into was to little or too much. At the end I kind of got the hang of it but not really. Hey, what can i say it's not my sport.





Week 5

When I was playing basketball I was dribbling the ball and thought of the way that could be science. I came up with the fact that when you push the ball down it has to have force to create the bounce back up to your hand. The more you push down the higher the ball comes up that's why if you're watching kent parks or middle school the ball comes up to their shoulder because they don't know how much force to put into the ball.​





Week 4

On ESPN there was a showing of professionals playing pool. Though it was a compettion the players were making shots that were ridicously hard. One person hit the ball and spun it around to other balls and in to the side pocket. The placement of where the person hit the ball made it spin and then how hard he it would determine how far it spun. He probably hit it really hard but it slowed down because of rolling friction.






Week 3

I was watching tennis then once again I knew it was science. Sometimes the person would mess up to due to the fact of how light or how strong they hit it. The person may hit the ball at the wrong angle and it would veer off to the right or left. On the side of the court there were these box things that showed the speed of the surf. One time the speed went up 110 MPH. The speed of the ball was created by the force created by the person. The speed made the other player have to react fast but she couldn't so she missed.




Week 2
I realized today that most sports are science. Football has a lot of science. When two people collide together, the one with the most force or newtons will tackle the other one or run over the other. If they both came with the same force or newtons it would make a really loud sound and they both stop and fall to the side.



Week 1
I was playing basketball and realized, this is science. I got really excited and thought about it. I realized that to get the ball to the hoop you have to pass through gravity. Which is why you have to have strength to get the ball there. The reason why the ball drops into the hoop is because gravity overcomes the ball and starts pulling it down.