Haven
3rd Grade Van Law
Olympic Diving
Olympic diving is very interesting. Diving first became popular in Sweden and Germany back in the 19th century where it was inspired by gymnastics underwater. Diving 1st went to the Olympics in 1904! The rules are very important in the Olympics, especially Olympic diving! The athletes jump off of the springboard which helps divers to jump high into the air. Finally, every Olympic sport needs equipment. For Olympic diving, the average pool size is a 50 meter pool and is filled with 50,000 gallons of water! Athletes are judged on all of their techniques! Olympic diving also shows Newton’s laws of motion.
Newton's 1st law is always shown in Olympic diving! A diver at rest stays at rest and a diver in motion stays in motion unless acted on by an unbalanced force that is Newton's 1st law in diving. An object at rest in olympic diving is the water before the diver dives into it and the springboard before the diver dives. An object in motion that's in olympic diving is the springboard when the diver jumps off it and the water when the diver dives.
Newton’s 2nd law is very important in olympic diving here's some why. Newton's 2nd law says the acceleration of an object depends on the force applied and the mass of an object. This is how force and mass help olympic divers accelerate. Also, divers predict how high to jump. When the diver dives they have to have a lot of force to jump and the springboard has mass they have to think of so the diver needs a lot of force to jump. An olympic diver predicts how high they will jump because they know when they put a lot of force they will jump high but when they put a little force they will not jump high. Sometimes it can go wrong if a diver uses to much force or not enough force. If a diver does not use enough force they will not jump high so they will be closer to the water so less time to do a trick. That is how Newton's 2nd law is very important olympic diving.
Newton’s 3rd law has to be shown in Olympic Diving and this is how.First, Newton’s 3rd Law says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Athletes need to remember that forces come in pairs. Also, action is motion and another way to say that is an act caused by force and reaction is what happens in response in the first action. Then, knowing Newton’s 3rd Law helps divers predict what will happen. An example of action is when a diver jumps in the water the reaction is the water will splash. A diver predicts that when they jump the gravity will pull the diver down so they know to jump high. Finally, a diver predicts that if they use a lot of force to jump they will jump high and if they don’t they will not jump as high but sometimes they want to jump low so they don't have a big splash for a better score but the down side of this is they won’t have a lot of time for their move. Those are the reasons why all Newton's Laws are shown in Olympic Diving.