A Day At The Beach

This past Saturday I went to the beach in Waimanalo with my friends Pablo, Breland, Nick, and Brandon. While at the beach we were throwing the football around. As each pass was flying throw the air I could not help but notice that the football was traveling with two different types of velocities. I was able to identify that each pass had a horizontal velocity and a vertical velocity. After I spotted the two types of velocities I was also able to notice that although the vertical velocity was changing as the football traveled up and then down, the horizontal velocity of the football remained the same throughout the flight of the football. Each throw amazed me because it reminded me of the demonstration in class on friday when I risked my life on the top of the ladder to show that two objects will always hit the ground at the same time it they are both released from the same point. Physics is fun.

While I was playing in a baseball game last season against Mid Pac I noticed something for the first time. While I was batting I saw the positive velocity and positve acceleration of the ball as it traveled toward me. After I swung the bat to hit the ball the velocity remained positive but the acceleration of the ball was negative because it was traveling in the opposite direction. I also noticed that the ball's velocity reached zero at the point when I hit it and it changed direction.