Physics of Sports

When we were first assigned with the task of creating a video demonstrating the physics of a sport action and how to execute it, we brainstormed what our sports action should be. Many ideas passed through us but we ended up doing our project on a football tackle, specifically a "sack". We chose this because it was #1 unique and #2 interesting for all of us. To start we created a rough story board of what our video would end up looking like. This included camera angles, actions, and editing ideas. After our storyboard was created we made a script to go along with it (see below). Each person in our group was responsible for a certain aspect of the video. I was in-charge of making and showing the calculations involved in our project. I represented the calculations in our video with a time-lapse of me solving the problems on a whiteboard with a voice over. After we all finished our own parts of the video, our master editor; Luke took over and compiled everything together to create the amazing work of art you see above you.

Horizontal Velocity - The rate of covered distance in a certain direction, the direction being horizontal, parallel to the ground. Velocity is a vector quantity because it involves a magnitude and direction. It is measured in meters per second (m/s) and calculated by taking the horizontal distance divided by the time (d/t).

Total Velocity - the speed in the direction in which Ben hits the dummy. It can be found using the Pythagorean theorem. Since we know the horizontal and vertical velocity, we have a right triangle where the hypotenuse is the total velocity and the two legs are the horizontal velocity and vertical velocity.

During this project I feel as if I took a strong leadership role. I demonstrated empathy and communication to organize our project and use our strengths and weaknesses in the right areas. I also feel like I was time-efficient and got my section of the project done on time and collaborated with my group to see what I can improve and what they can improve. I do however feel as if I didn't take into consideration everyone ideas and had a mindset of, " my way is the right way" when that wasn't necessarily true. I also didn't demonstrate. I also wasn't as conscientious as I could have been at the beginning and was asking my teammates for to much or to little. I luckily sorted that out but having it sorted out right away next time would increase productivity.