What our project included
We started to tackle this project by deciding what we wanted video to be about. Once we figured out horse jumping we came up with the calculations we were going use. From this we made the script and the storyboard and began filming! Once we got the videos of our group speaking I began to film all the horse clips. Now that we were done with the camera I moved on to editing the video clips. In class we observed the videos and found the math and numbers. Then we posted it on YouTube!
The Concepts
Velocity: v=d/t velocity is speed with direction, in our video Babe, the horse, have a velocity of 3.648m/s (8mph)
Projectile motion: to find total velocity you find the velocity of the vertical and horizontal components, in our case they were 2.58m/s. With these numbers you use the equation: a squared + b squared = c squared.
Force: f=ma, during landing there is a force of 35,000N on Babe's front feet
impulse: impulse=ft, we used this concept when figuring out how to reduce the force on the horse's leg during impact
Reflection
I enjoyed this project a lot because I really liked working with horses which is a big passion of mine and I also got to do to some of my hobbies, videotaping and editing. I also liked finding the physics behind horseback riding in general because for my job I want to do that along with finding ways to make the sport safer and easier for the horse.
Some new skills I learned was how to manually adjust the video on my camera which I've been wanting to figure out forever! I also learned more about impulse and how it effects the force on the horse's leg, which was interesting. Things that we challenging for my group and me was trying to find time to get together which resulting in me videotaping everything by myself which was hard. Another of our pitfalls was that our horizontal and vertical velocity was wrong (we did not square the numbers) and we couldn't fix it after the video was rendered, but we now know to always check our work! Some things we did really well were getting all the math done without anyone actually watching the horse and just having to go from the video clips. We also worked very well with each other and everyone participated, helped out and was willing throughout the whole project.
We started to tackle this project by deciding what we wanted video to be about. Once we figured out horse jumping we came up with the calculations we were going use. From this we made the script and the storyboard and began filming! Once we got the videos of our group speaking I began to film all the horse clips. Now that we were done with the camera I moved on to editing the video clips. In class we observed the videos and found the math and numbers. Then we posted it on YouTube!
The Concepts
Velocity: v=d/t velocity is speed with direction, in our video Babe, the horse, have a velocity of 3.648m/s (8mph)
Projectile motion: to find total velocity you find the velocity of the vertical and horizontal components, in our case they were 2.58m/s. With these numbers you use the equation: a squared + b squared = c squared.
Force: f=ma, during landing there is a force of 35,000N on Babe's front feet
impulse: impulse=ft, we used this concept when figuring out how to reduce the force on the horse's leg during impact
Reflection
I enjoyed this project a lot because I really liked working with horses which is a big passion of mine and I also got to do to some of my hobbies, videotaping and editing. I also liked finding the physics behind horseback riding in general because for my job I want to do that along with finding ways to make the sport safer and easier for the horse.
Some new skills I learned was how to manually adjust the video on my camera which I've been wanting to figure out forever! I also learned more about impulse and how it effects the force on the horse's leg, which was interesting. Things that we challenging for my group and me was trying to find time to get together which resulting in me videotaping everything by myself which was hard. Another of our pitfalls was that our horizontal and vertical velocity was wrong (we did not square the numbers) and we couldn't fix it after the video was rendered, but we now know to always check our work! Some things we did really well were getting all the math done without anyone actually watching the horse and just having to go from the video clips. We also worked very well with each other and everyone participated, helped out and was willing throughout the whole project.