What is our Physics of Sports Project?
In our second STEM project of the year we were tasked with creating a movie that explained the physics of a specific sports action. My group (which includes myself, Lucy Mogan, and Kaleb Ryan) decided to have a soccer free kick as our action since Kaleb is an active soccer player. One of our biggest challenges was striking a balance between making our video entertaining and informative. On this webpage you will see the video itself, our process of making it, the physic concepts we used in it, and my reflection on this project.
Our Final Video:
How we made it:
The first thing we did in making the video was decide upon a sports action. After that we typed up a storyboard which gave us a rough idea of what we wanted to do for our each scene in the video. We then typed up an incomplete script to leave room for the physics. We then filmed the outdoor soccer scenes and the coach scenes. We began piecing some of the video together and we used the footage we had to calculate the physics portion and completed the script. Then we filmed the white board scenes and recorded the audio. This was all taken together and was made into our rough draft. Taking in comments from peers we re-filmed some scenes and edited the video together to make our final draft. Below is our storyboard, script, and rough draft.
Physic Concepts:
Force of Impact- This is the force applied to an object at the moment of collision. This states that mass times velocity is equal to force times time. We calculated the force of impact applied to the ball when hit in the video.
Momentum- This is the tendency of a moving object to continue to move. This is calculated by multiplying mass and velocity. The ball is seen doing this as it flies through the air.
Impulse- How long and forcefully an object is pushed. This is found by multiplying force and time. We calculated this in the video to find the force of impact.
Vertical Velocity- The velocity of an object as it goes up vertically and to its peak. This is represented as acceleration due to gravity multiplied by time. We discuss how we found it and used it to calculate the total velocity.
Horizontal Velocity- The velocity of an object that has horizontal motion. This is found by dividing time from horizontal distance. We discuss how we found it and used it to calculate the total velocity.
Total Velocity- This is the average velocity of an object. This is taken by using Pythagorean Theorem (a^2+b^2=c^2) and substituting horizontal and vertical velocity as a and b. We calculated the total velocity in the video.
Momentum- This is the tendency of a moving object to continue to move. This is calculated by multiplying mass and velocity. The ball is seen doing this as it flies through the air.
Impulse- How long and forcefully an object is pushed. This is found by multiplying force and time. We calculated this in the video to find the force of impact.
Vertical Velocity- The velocity of an object as it goes up vertically and to its peak. This is represented as acceleration due to gravity multiplied by time. We discuss how we found it and used it to calculate the total velocity.
Horizontal Velocity- The velocity of an object that has horizontal motion. This is found by dividing time from horizontal distance. We discuss how we found it and used it to calculate the total velocity.
Total Velocity- This is the average velocity of an object. This is taken by using Pythagorean Theorem (a^2+b^2=c^2) and substituting horizontal and vertical velocity as a and b. We calculated the total velocity in the video.
Reflection:
During the course of this project I tried to improve on my faults from the last project. A thing I feel I did well on was my editing. I felt I improved overall in my editing skills. I felt good being able to match audio and video together. A moment I felt particularly good about this was when I ripped the audio from one video and put it on another video with editing the audio to play at an exact moment. This project overall helped me improve my editing. Another thing I felt I did well on was helping write the script. On the script I felt I did a decent chunk of the work on it. I also revised the script to add all the physics in it.
I many have done some good things on the project but I did have some faults. One thing I felt I could have worked more on was calculating the physics. I think I should have done more to aid in this instead of letting my teammates mostly take care of it. For next time I will try to help out more every step of the way, a goal that has carried over from the Rube Goldberg project. Another thing I could work on for next would be communication. I felt I could have done a bit better on having discussions with my group. Next time I will try to communicate more with my group.
I many have done some good things on the project but I did have some faults. One thing I felt I could have worked more on was calculating the physics. I think I should have done more to aid in this instead of letting my teammates mostly take care of it. For next time I will try to help out more every step of the way, a goal that has carried over from the Rube Goldberg project. Another thing I could work on for next would be communication. I felt I could have done a bit better on having discussions with my group. Next time I will try to communicate more with my group.