Emmett
3rd Silva
Canoeing Olympics
There are several Olympic sports played every four years,canoeing is one of them. Olympic canoeing was made in 1924 in Paris and joined the Olympics in 1936. The equipment that is needed for canoeing is a life jacket, oars, and a boat. The rules are that an athlete can’t touch a gate or enter a gate wrong, if they do these then they give penalties to the athlete. Another rule is they must have a certain size boat. The fastest athlete through the course wins or fastest time wins.
There are many forces at work in slalom canoeing. Newton's first law says an object stays at rest until a force touches it and an object in motion stays in motion until a force stops it. Two types of forces are balanced forces and unbalanced forces. An example of a balance force is when an object is at rest, like when the person or boat is not moving in the water. The canoe is at rest until the athlete starts to row and the canoe goes into motion. When the canoe or athlete is moving then they are an unbalanced force. The canoe stays in motion until the water slows it down to a rest. The athlete uses muscle force to row forward.
Newton's second law says the bigger the mass the stronger the force needs to be to accelerate the mass. The smaller the mass the lighter the force needed to accelerate the mass. The amount of force needed depends on the mass of the object. The mass is the boat ,and because it can hold 11 people, they are part of the mass too, so examples of things that have mass in Slalom canoeing are the boat and the people. Acceleration is the boat moving, and they can move fast sometimes. The athlete knows how much force they need to use on the oars to accelerate the boat fast. The boat will move fast in two ways, one if a person rows will go very fast and if the water goes fast the boat can go fast.
Newton’s third law says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. An action is when the athlete rows and the reaction is when the boat goes forward. If the athlete rows fast then the reaction is the canoe will go very fast. Another example of an action is if the oars are rowed backwards then the reaction is that the boat stops. To sum up, Newton's laws of physics can be seen in slalom canoeing.