Violet
4th Grade Neville
Shot Put
Shot put in an olympic game. It's played like this. You don't throw it you toss it along with the wind the rules are you can't wear gloves or you get disqualified from the game the player can not step out of the circle while throwing the ball. Shot put was first played in 1866. It was first played where the ancient greeks lived a long time ago. Shot put was first put in the olympic sports in 1896. The ball you throw in shot put is really heavy it can way up to 6 to 16 pounds. Player don't throw the heavy ball they toss it along with the wind. The player can break a bone while holding ball if they drop it and it hits their foot it breaks it will not feel good. Shot put is a game for people with both legs. Paralympic sports are for people with one leg. The ancient greeks played shot put with stones and tossed them along with the wind there are a lot of olympic sports and paralympic sports. Olympians are the people who play these sports.
Do you know what Newton's first law is? If you don't know, I'm going to tell you about it. It is about objects that are moving. They won't stop until something stops them like a wall,your finger, or your hand. You can say this another way. Objects that are still wont move until you move them with your finger, your hand, you are the one moving or stopping the object or if you blow them. Balanced force is when one things pushes as much as the other. In my sport shot put, the ball is balanced when it is in the thrower’s hand. It is unbalanced when it is in the air. Gravitational force pulls the ball down to the ground. This happens when it's ready to fall. One example is when a ball is moving and something stops it that is a balanced force. When something isn't moving and something moves it that is an unbalanced force. Forces that show movement are muscle force and motion force.
Newton’s second law is about inertia, mass, and acceleration. They are three different things. Force in my sport is the ball being thrown. Some examples in my sport are the ball and the person mass in everything is weight. An example of mass in my sport is the ball as it lands on the ground in the dirt. Gravitational force is pulling the ball down and contact force between the ball and the ground makes it stop. Acceleration and different masses in my sport is when the ball lands on the ground in the dirt. Acceleration is gaining and losing speed. In my sport the person should use more force so the ball can get as far as they want it to go. They don't want to use less force or else the ball will not go as far as they want it to. And they will not win the competition and might get disqualified from shot put. Newton's second law means F=m x a that means force equals mass times acceleration. Takes less force to move it.
Newton's third law says for every action\force has a reaction! Here are some examples. When someone playing shot put pushes backwards with their foot to get in the pose they need to be in they will go forward. Isn’t that cool? When the person throws the ball they go backwards. when the ball hits the ground the ground tries to push up. When you jump you push down and backwards you go forward and up. The ground/dirt pushes against the ball, the dirt splashes up and away from the ball.