Frisbee

In this project we had about 1 week or so to film, create, and voice over our video into becoming our school project. We decided on using Frisbee as our method of physics because it was a basic enough sport to where everyone in our group has played and has a full understanding of the way a game works. This way it was easier for our team members to be of use and making sure everyone understands the assignment.

Story Board:

Scene 1

Start off the film by showing a Frisbee in the air moving across the screen. (Use this as an intro with title and names.) (Frisbee in the distance away from the camera) Music plays in the background.

Scene 2

Show clips of professional Frisbee players in action ( voice over this part to explain what to expect in this video) Everyone speaks

Scene 3

Explain how now we will be explaining some scientific terms used in this video.

Scene 4

Velocity: The Rate of a distance covered in a direction. (Show these words on screen with plain background and background uplifting music)

Scene 5

Acceleration: The Rate of something speeding up or slowing down. (Show these words on screen with plain background and background uplifting music)

Scene 6

Pythagorean Theorem: This is a calculator used to find the diagonal distance. (Show these words on screen with plain background and background uplifting music)

Scene 7

Force: A push or pull on an object that causes change in motion (Show these words on screen with plain background and background uplifting music)

Scene 8

Show all of our calculations used in this project. (show white bored and use voice over to explain each equation and what they mean)

Scene 9

Tell the viewers how to correctly throw a Frisbee (Teddy demonstrates each step used to successfully throw a Frisbee, front angle view of camera.)

Scene 10

Throwing Demonstrations (Side angle of camera)

Scene 11

Explain trick shots and how you can add spice to your game (film Frisbee being thrown up the bleachers)

Scene 12

Show bad versus good throwing and catching examples (use Teddy and Mason for this)

Scene 13

Thanks for Watching!! (Ending music and happy cheering) ☺

Content

• Force of Impact: We used the calculation Fimput (m change v = Ftimpact) to find out the force of impact on our Frisbee. After all of our data was collected we came to terms with the impact being 12N. A force is a push or pull on an object that causes a change in motion to occur. (Our last image of calculations shows this equation.)

• Horizontal Velocity: Horizontal Velocity is the average speed on a flat surface assuming no outside forces. The equation for this is Vh=dh/t (with no air resistance or outside forces). We used this in our project when helping to find out how fast our Frisbee moves horizontally. This is being shown in the first image on calculations and we ended up with .975m/s.

• Vertical Velocity: Vertical Velocity is the velocity of a falling object moving up or down. The equation made to find this is Vv=agtfall. After solving this equation we got 2.23 mph which was also equivalent to 1m/s.

• Total Velocity: The totally velocity is the vector addition of horizontal + vertical velocity. In order to find totally velocity you must use the Pythagorean Theorem which is a2+b2=c2. As shown in our fifth image on calculations we solved for this and found the total speed of our Frisbee when thrown was 22mph which is equivalent to 9.85m/s.

• Conservation of Momentum: This is the momentum before collision= momentum after collision. This equation is typically the initial object 1 and 2 compared to the final object 1 and 2. This is used to show the transfer from momentum from before and after collision and to notice the difference in change.