This afternoon while sitting at my kitchen table, I was eating some grapes. When I reached into the bowl and grabbed a hand full, one grape slipped through my fingers and rolled off the table and fell to the ground. Watching my grape plummet from the edge of the table it reminded me of physics. It reminded me of gravity and how objects fall at constant acceleration.
The acceleration of the grape falling to the wooden floor was 9.8m/s^2. The displacement would be the distance is rolled on the table and the height of the table. The ending velocity when it hits the ground would b zero. If I were to draw the acceleration graph it would b a horizontal line connected to 9.8 on the y-axis and would run till whatever time the grape hit the ground. I also remembered that even though two objects may be different in weight, they will still fall at the same acceleration.
4 comments:
it's absolutely amazing how fruit can inspire physics concepts. ☺
i hope you ate the grape that fell on the ground
those grapes look good... :P
grapes are yummy. if you take off the skin and mush like fifty of them together, you could make a huge eyeball. try dropping the eyeball off of your roof. thats also physics. Pachipachi
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