Braelyn
3rd Grade Van Law
Figure skating
Figure skating has a lot of history. It started in 1850 London and joined the Olympics in 1908. The equipment they need are figure skates, figure skating costumes, and the ice rink. Additionally, they are judged on their costume and technique. They dance with music and they do different twirls and any dance trick. Olympic figure skating is also showed through Newton’s laws of motion.
Figure skating has a lot of movement in it. Newton's first law says that an object in rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion unless there is an unbalanced force. There are forces such as balanced and unbalanced. Unbalanced forces are when the skaters spin, move, and jump. Balanced forces are when they do a pose and are still at the beginning of their performance. Objects that are at rest in figure skating are the skates and the skater when they are still. Objects that are in motion are the skater moving on the ice, the skates, and the ice flakes. Newton's first law of motion is seen in many ways in figure skating.
In ice skating, athletes use mass force and acceleration. Newton’s second law says the acceleration of an object depends on the force applied and the mass of the object. First, the mass is the ice skater and the ice skates, too. The athletes make themselves small and can also make themselves bigger and when they do they slow down, making balanced force on their skates. The skater could go faster if they make themselves small. Next the ice skater needs the mass of their body along with the acceleration by getting smaller and spreading out. They use muscular force on the ice skate in order to control how they accelerate.
This is action and reaction in Newton's 3rd law. Newton's 3rd law says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. An action is a motion caused by a force. A reaction is what happens after an action. Actions are when they put one of their feet in front and one in the back then they push back to go forward, which is the reaction. That is how Newton's three laws are seen in figure skating.