Physics at the Lake
Not everyone notices but Physics is everywhere! Physics is connected to everything that we do everyday all of the time. When we’re driving, walking, or even while we’re just sitting down at the end of the day. However you don’t want to hear a story about me just sitting down at a computer typing a story much like this one because that’s not exciting. How about we go on a little adventure!
There we were my family and I had just arrived at Lake Monroe with our new ( used but new to us ) pair of jet skis, and we were backing them into the lake for a nice day of relaxing and fun. Now we finally got the jet skis into the water and we put on the parking brake to the truck while we took the jet skis off of the trailer. And there is our first stop on the Physics journey, thanks to Inertia the truck stayed still on that slanted loading ramp. Of course we can not forget friction either because without friction then everything and everyone would just be sliding around like we were on the slickest of ice.
Now we get into the water on the jet skis and to start of we just sat there floating. And there already we are at our second stop. Because of buoyancy we were able to float on top of the water. The buoyant force was greater than the weight of us on top of the jet skis which is keeps us floating instead of sinking. Now we’re off starting up the jet skis and we gather up so much momentum ( yes that’s a Physics term ) that when I foolish threw the handle to the left that I flew off of the jet ski continuing the same direction that I was going just seconds before. The reason I kept going was because I was not securely attached to the jet ski and the momentum just doesn’t disappear it has to go somewhere, and in this case it went with me. The Law of Conservation of Momentum proves this and I kept going the same speed as before until another force acted upon me a.k.a. the air and water that I slammed into.
Not everyone notices but Physics is everywhere! Physics is connected to everything that we do everyday all of the time. When we’re driving, walking, or even while we’re just sitting down at the end of the day. However you don’t want to hear a story about me just sitting down at a computer typing a story much like this one because that’s not exciting. How about we go on a little adventure!
There we were my family and I had just arrived at Lake Monroe with our new ( used but new to us ) pair of jet skis, and we were backing them into the lake for a nice day of relaxing and fun. Now we finally got the jet skis into the water and we put on the parking brake to the truck while we took the jet skis off of the trailer. And there is our first stop on the Physics journey, thanks to Inertia the truck stayed still on that slanted loading ramp. Of course we can not forget friction either because without friction then everything and everyone would just be sliding around like we were on the slickest of ice.
Now we get into the water on the jet skis and to start of we just sat there floating. And there already we are at our second stop. Because of buoyancy we were able to float on top of the water. The buoyant force was greater than the weight of us on top of the jet skis which is keeps us floating instead of sinking. Now we’re off starting up the jet skis and we gather up so much momentum ( yes that’s a Physics term ) that when I foolish threw the handle to the left that I flew off of the jet ski continuing the same direction that I was going just seconds before. The reason I kept going was because I was not securely attached to the jet ski and the momentum just doesn’t disappear it has to go somewhere, and in this case it went with me. The Law of Conservation of Momentum proves this and I kept going the same speed as before until another force acted upon me a.k.a. the air and water that I slammed into.