Bailey
3rd Grade Silva
Artistic Gymnastics
There are several Olympic sports played every four years. Artistic gymnastics is one of them. To begin, artistic gymnastics became a sport in 1896 and became a part of the Olympics in 1896 as well. Next, the equipment needed is appropriate clothing and a rope, hoop, ball, club and ribbon. The appropriate clothing needs to be really tight so that the gymnast stays safe and will not have drag. Drag is something that slows you down or in this case, gymnasts can get caught in clothing that is loose and get hurt. Athletes win artistic gymnastics by making it into art and winning points. Artistic gymnastics is very intense and also shows Newton's laws of motion.
Artistic gymnastics has many forces at work. Balanced and unbalanced forces are two types. A balanced force is when the ball is at rest and not moving. Newton's first law is when an object is in motion it will stay in motion until a force stops it. In the game of artistic gymnastics a person is in motion and stops moving when a force comes upon it. Overall, Newton's first law can be seen throughout artistic gymnastics.Newton's second law is the greater the mass the greater the force to move it.
Also there are forces that push and pull. An object's mass is how much matter that object has. And acceleration is a change in velocity. The forces in artistic gymnastics are flipping, running and jumping ,and spinning of the athlete and muscle force. Lastly, the acceleration is running really fast and the amount of spins depends on the force. The more force or muscles the athletes use the more flipping and turning and twisting they can do. Athletes can predict the acceleration needed to do specific tricks by what the trick entails. Truly,Newton's Second Law can be seen inartistic gymnastics.There is one final law that is shown in the sport of artistic gymnastics.
To begin, Newton's 3rd law is for every action there will be an opposite reaction. An action is a movement. A reaction is a response to an action. Next examples of Newton's law actions and reactions in artistic gymnastics would be jump and fall, spin and slip flip and mess curl up and break a leg from doing the splits too far .Truly physics can be seen throughout the world in artistic gymnastics.To sum it up, artistic gymnastics is fun and risky. Newton's laws can be seen throughout every moment of this sport.