Adalyn
3rd Grade Van Law
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics is a beautiful Olympic sport. They need a ball, a ribbon, a hoop, and a club. They also need a beautiful costume! They dance on a big floor mat to music. This sport is full of dancing! This sport also has physics.
Rhythmic gymnastics shows movement. Newton’ 1st Law says an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion unless there is a force. Rhythmic gymnastics has balanced forces when the gymnast stands still. This is when the gymnast, the ribbons, the ball, the hoop, and the clubs are at rest. There are also unbalanced forces when the gymnast dances. When they start dancing, they spin the ribbon and move the hoop and ball. This is when there is motion in rhythmic gymnastics. This is why I like rhythmic gymnastics!
Newton’s second law of motion is about gaining speed. The mass in rhythmic gymnastics is the ribbon to dance, the hoop to fling, and the gymnast. To jump high the dancer needs to push off the ground.
Newton’s third law of motion is every action is motion and has a reaction. When something goes up that’s the action. The reaction is when it goes down. In rhythmic gymnastics, the ribbon is moving. It will still be moving. The gymnast also throws the ball up and also the hoop, it will fling in the air. Then they go down. Rhythmic gymnastics makes me so happy. There are so many pretty costumes to pick and there is so much dancing.