NOT DA SNOW!

On Friday, I left for the East Coast to do college visits. While we were flying to New York, our plane unexpectedly had to land in Chicago due to an unusual October snow storm in New York. When we got to New York, the ground was covered in snow, as you can see in the background. In class, Mr. Blake taught is about the joys of ice blocking. Ice has very little friction which is why it is so fun to go so fast down the hill at Kaneohe Elementary (according to Mr. Blake). This very reason is why our flight got grounded in Chicago. The ground was covered in icy snow so there would be very little friction if a plane tried to land at the JFK airport which would be dangerous because it would be tough to come to a stop. Though the snow may have been a damper, my mother sure had fun jumping in it. Oh mother...

HAUNTED weekend!

This weekend was quite the scare for my friends and I. It was one of my friends birthdays (pictured in the bottom right picture, the girl on the left) and she had a scare fest birthday. First we went to see Paranormal Activity 3, then we headed over to the Haunted Plantation in Waipahu. At the plantation, there was one house where this spooky little girl would walk on the railing as you entered the house and stare right at you, then jump down next to you and freak you out even more. A free body diagram could be drawn for this action. Because the girl is falling with some air resistance, an arrow would be drawn upward and labeled Fair (force of the air). At the same time, here weight is going down (her mass and her gravity) so the arrow would be going downward labeled mg (mass x gravity). We may look happy in the pictures, but by the end of the night, we were exactly like the people shown in the video. 

om nom nom COTTON CANDY!

This picture is of my friends Megan, Skye and myself at our ring social this past Friday. After we received our rings, there were treats and sweets to consume. Me and my friends decided on the cotton candy. This week in Physics we learned about force. A force is a push or pull. Contact force is putting force upon another object and contact must be involved. As you can see, Skye has a piece of cotton candy that is just about to enter his mouth. He used contact force to rip the piece of cotton candy from the whole. It took a contact pull in order for the piece to rip, which was necessary for his enjoyment of the treat. All around us, there is constant force whether we know it or not.

Where Are We?

This picture was taken by my friend Ryan during my other friend, Cali's birthday party. Our task was to go on a scavenger hunt around her neighborhood, St. Louis Heights. In this picture, the instructions were to look lost. We're good actors huh? Cali's house was on the main street, but to find certain things, we had to go down streets perpendicular to hers. In order to reach the place where we are in the picture (Wa'ahila Ridge), we had to walk in the north direction from Cali's house, then to the left. The distance was about 150 meters. Then to reach the ridge, we walked about the same distance of 150 meters, but to the east. The total distance traveled was 300 meters. Hypothetically speaking, we can find the distance that it would take to go the diagonal route. Because both distances were equal and a right angle was formed with the path, an isosceles triangle was formed. This means that  the legs of the triangle are x which is 150, so the hypotenuse would be x times the square root of two which is approximately 212 in the south west direction. If a diagonal way were possible, our group would have traveled 88 less meters.