Sunday, April 5, 2009

Canada Physics


While I was skimming some absolutely amazing pictures of past vacations to our house on Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, I noticed a very very small piece of physics. In this picture, on the right side of the glass door, there is a flower pot hanging from the roof. In this small but legit example you can see the pot balancing perfectly similar to the rulers in our past lab, "Seesaw Physics." If one of the strings, balancing the pot, were longer the pot would be leaning one way or another. Also, speaking of the door, we learned that in a door there are two points of rotation. One is in the center of the door knob while the other is at the hinge. The door knob is located toward the side of the door, on the left because if it was in the center of the door then it would difficult for the door to open as where you would pull the door is in the center of the majority of the mass. See everybody...Canada has physics too!

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