Monday, October 6, 2008

Swinging Pendulum & Endo




For our senior pages or collages, our varsity soccer team had to get together and take photos. In the meantime while waiting for everyone to arrive, Nicole Endo and I were taking random pictures. She was bored and started to climb up the baseball fence poles and hang off of it. Shes crazy! This is where i realized she was acting like a pendulum. Physics! A pendulum swings back and forth. If we had, we could have measured the period of the pendulum or in this case, Endo's to-and fro motion in seconds. And we could have also calculated the frequency of her swing which is the number of times she swings back and forth in a given time. Frequency and period are related but the fact that they are recipricals of each other. For example, if the frequency of Endo's swing was 3 Htz/s, then the the Period would be 1/3 seconds. But sorry we didn't! Once again phyics is in action whether you notice it or not. Its all around us!=)

1 comment:

kohara said...

i know it might seem a bit of a stretch, but this is still great physics... good recognition about the swinging and frequency. good luck this year with the team!