slightly embarassing

the lee side cousins with popo

okay so first of all i dont have a picture of the subject of my journal but this was the same night, i think. well i know that this picture was taken at Hy's and my experience happened at Hy's with the same people. so yeah. alright and if i did have a picture of it, it would be purely luck and i dont know if i would have want to put it on anyways. haha. okay so basically when i was going down the stairs, i ate it. my sandals were new and i forgot to scratch the bottom of my sandals. so basically there was no FRICTION! the usual gravity and normal force canceled each other out, but as i was walking down the stairs there was nothing canceling out that force (which would normally be friction), thus my acceleration from going step-step, to FALL! haha so all you who buy new footwear with a smooth bottom, SCRATCH them up! or you will pay! haha

Different Initial Velocities

This is a picture of me and my friends jumping from bed to bed at the Hilton. What does physics have to do with any of this? Well, as you can see we all are in different positions vertically and horizontally, yet we left our positions at the same time. [Oh, by the way, the two pink shirts are going one way and the white one is going the other, if you did not get that] Anyways, this is due to the vertical velocity that differs in all of us. My friend who has completely landed had the lowest vertical velocity, making her time in the air the least. Next was me [in the pink shirt and pants]. I guess you could say that I am in the position of the end of the parabolic path that a projectile takes. Then there is my other friend who is still completely in the air, having the highest vertical velocity, resulting in the longest time in the air. I like this picture because it shows the effects of different velocities and because it reminds me how tiring, but fun it was jumping all around. ^.^

People Hunt

WATER BALLOON FIGHTS ARE THE BEST! I was thinking of what to write for this week's journal. Being relevant to what we are learning, I thought of the projectiles in life and of pictures that I have. Then I remember having a water balloon fight and how the aiming technique is sort of like the MONKEY HUNT lab we did. Well even if it is not exactly like it, when the water balloon is thrown, it is a projectile. It's the same as the video we had to "cut" up and observe their graphs. The Y position graph takes the shape of an upside down parabola and its velocity graph is a negative linear graph. The X position graph is a positive linear graph and its velocity graph is almost a a straight horizontal line, having a slope of zero. However, it does not because of the effects of air resistance. So next time you are having a water balloon fight, throw it differently and think of how its 4 graphs would look like and have fun ^.^

So Far in Physics...

This is how I feel about physics.
*NB: you should let this load b/c when it goes all at once it looks cooler.

Physics is fun but at the same time challenging. The material is pretty easy to grasp especially after we do the labs that embrace the concepts we are learning. At first it was kind of blurry to me but then after a while I seemed to get the hang of it. I never had such a class involved with the computer and technology so it's kind of exciting because I love going on the computer and taking pictures. I seemed to be doing pretty good, that is, until the test. I am kind of bummed about my grade and what it brought my average down to, but I am hoping that I can bring up my average before the quarter ends. I am worried that I am going to become one of those that do well all the way up to the test and bomb the test. It's kind of like what we call a "practice swimmer" in swimming. Practice swimmers are those who dominate in practice but their performance in meets don't seem to match the swimmer they are in practice. This course so far is way better than I expected. It's actually kind of fun. I didn't really have a clear vision of what I thought it would be like but this is by far more hands on than I thought. I hope that it only gets better in the future.

The Thrills

The first picture is from this summer at the waterpark on cliffhanger. The second one was of my friend jumping off of the Waimea rock at Waimea Bay after the Cholo's ocean swim.

When we started to talk about free fall and acceleration I thought, "Wow I wonder what it would be like to be that ball that we always talk about." Later I realized that I have experienced free falling. Even though there is water and a slide on the cliffhanger, when you actually come down it, your butt is actually not touching the slide, well for me it wasn't, at least not until you get to the bottom where you get a bad wedgie =P. Also, in the cliffhanger there is water to help give you this free fall experience since the slide is not exactly vertical. Still, in the cliffhanger, you do experience some sort of free fall. As for the Waimea rock one, you do experience free fall. You are falling straight down and there is nothing to guide an angle to fall. These two things give us instant thrills and make fun experiences which is ironic because some people say that they wish they could fly but stupid gravity is stopping them. Yet, gravity does have its way in the fun department of life ^.^

Sickness Graphs

Sickness Remedies: Jell-O, Tylenol, Li Hing Watermelons, and Water

On Tuesday, August 28th, 2007, my friends and I were in the pool office waiting for my friend, Marissa, to come so we could start our workout as a group, embracing the "One Team" spirit, although she goes to Punahou =P. One of my friends, Jodie, had some Sprite. Now I hadn't had any liquids since lunch and being a swimmer, my norm is being surrounded by liquid. So I ask her for some and she replies, "Yah yah go, but I'm sick." Thinking that I never get sick and therefore I'm invincible, I say, "Ah whatever," and take a sip...and another...and another. So I go home that night, and all of a sudden my throat starts to hurt. Well as the night progresses, so does the pain and the fever I soon developed after the throat pain. I end up falling asleep on my Precalc homework. I wake up the next day and being an 'Iolani student, there is much to do everyday, and missing one day could kill you. So I went to school, but as the day progressed, I felt like i could hardly stand. Good thing we got period 6 free that day, because after lunch I felt like jell-o. So I went home right after school that day and slept, accomplishing no homework. The next day I just slide by and feel like I'm getting better. Thursday is looking up. Maybe Friday is going to be good. Unfortunately, Friday was one of life's little surprises. Oh, and the surprise just got better on Saturday. Let's just put it this way, I went to sleep at 6:30pm on Friday and woke up at 12pm on Saturday afternoon. Also, my fever grew to a 100.3 and I have a low normal temperature. Anyways, I went to sleep and on Sunday, today, I feel a lot better. I finally feel I'm just a corner away from being completely better, hopefully. Anyways, I can hardly think right now and my sickness journey just makes me think of what a sickness graph would look like, since we're studying graphs and all.

So I made a "Energy-placement" graph:

and a "Energ-ocity" graph:

Now I challenge you to make an "Energeration"graph! Have fun and enjoy whats left of the three day weekend! -Steph out.