Blog #10: Forces Part 2

Hey, everyone. Once again, I'll be posting about forces. In this post, the picture included is one of a paper falling. The paper has many forces acting upon it, but the forces are imbalanced. This can be seen, because the paper is falling. What this means is that the force of gravity is larger than the normal force. Also the paper may fall slower than other objects, because of wind resistance also acting upon it.

Blog #9: Forces

Hello, everyone! It's been quite a whole since I posted, huh? Anyways, today I'm posting about forces. A Force is anything that causes an object to undergo a change in speed, direction, or shape. For example, the stapler in this picture is actually being acted upon by different forces. The reason it isn't moving everywhere is because the forces are balanced. One such force is weight, which can be seen by the equation Fnet=ma. Reacting against weight is the "normal force", which is always the same as weight. So, since the two forces are balanced, the stapler is at rest.

Introduction

Hello! My name is Christian, and I am a student at Kamehameha. I like science very much, and I'm pretty excited to be in Physics this year. I've done pretty well in Biology and Chemistry so far, but I would like to do even better in this class. For math, I'm in College Alg/ Trig, so that should help me out in Physics. Out of all the different types of sciences, I enjoy Physics the most, and really want to garner an understanding of it. I want to know how the world works, and why things are the way they are. The picture below is what I feel represents a part of me. I'm always curious, and want to know more, so this owl asking: "Oh really?" seemed appropriate. Not only that, but I like to be funny, and I consider this a pretty funny picture.