Physics of Sports: Archery
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT:
For this project, we worked together to film, draw, and produce a short video about how to improve in archery. In our video, we explained how to apply the archery concepts to surviving in a zombie apocalypse. Our video is unique in that our live-action filming is punctuated by short bits of semi-animation, to add comedic relief or to help explain a concept visually. This way, people will stay engaged, rather than drifting off to sleep after hearing a steady stream of calculations.
CONTENT:
Force of Impact:
You can calculate the force of impact of something by using the formula Ft=mv, or Force x time (of impact) = mass (of object) x (final) velocity. We didn't put our force of impact calculation in our video, but we did find out how much force the arrow should be hitting the target with.
Velocity Vectors:
To calculate a correct velocity vector, you take the vertical and horizontal velocities (which can be represented as vertical and horizontal arrows), make a triangle out of them, and find the hypotenuse using the Pythagorean formula. The hypotenuse is your final velocity and direction. Our vertical velocity vector was insignificant, because our arrow traveled so fast horizontally for such a short distance, so we ignored it in our calculations. However, it was still there.
Peaks-N-Pits
Well... I had a few very long paragraphs here, but I forgot to publish, so... here I go again...
Peaks
There were many peaks in this project, but all of them pale in comparison to the moment we finally got the video out. After several technical errors, iMovie bugs, and just all around bad timing, we finally managed to push out our corrected version of the video. Sure, it was way past the deadline, but we stuck with it, and gave it our all, and that's all that matters.
Pits
Seeing as it took us so long to get our video out, there were definitely pits. We lost our first filming day to a substitute that wouldn't let us film. We were plagued by iMovie's audio bugs throughout the process, and several audio recordings had to be completely redone because of it. But it still taught us resilience as we pushed on through the editing,