City Lights =)

In December, i went to City hall with two of my best friends, Marissa Yamamoto, who is currently attending the University of California in Davis and Steph Chun. of course during christmas time, there are christmas lights EVERYWHERE. In this picture there are mini ones on the trunk of the trees and giant ones hanging on the trees. If you look closely, you can see electric fields surrounded the lights. Not only do christmas lights have this electric field, all lights have it as well. There are also electric currents on other objects where we cant see them.

Iolani Classified Swim Meet

Every July, the Iolani Swim Club hosts a classified meet. The purpose of this meet is to provide swimmers of all levels a chance to make their times. 

This is a picture of me, sandy chun, kelsie kodama and alyssa sasaki stopping to take a picture near the parking structure. 

Although we haven't studied this yet, I am assuming that there is physics in this picture, and the physics in this is mirrors or reflection. 

I look forward to learning more about this in the future.

Very Late Journal...

Maybe about a month ago I was on my way home and remembered what Mr. Kohara said about the slanted turns we should keep our eyes open for and I found one. Im on the freeway going towards Pearl city but im not sure exactly where we are.
So because the road is not entirely flat, it increases the torque which allows us not to flip over.

Iolani Boys Waterpolo =]

               On Friday September 19, 2008, the Iolani Boys Division 1 varsity team had a game at iolani. To the left is a really bad picture of the game. Within the game, there were a number of physics related things. For example, when the ball is thrown, it goes through the motion of a projectile at a certain velocity. When the ball is shot by the opposing team and blocked by our awesome goalie Austin Strong, the ball and Austin go produce a bouncy collision. A bouncy collision also occurs when a player is field blocking and blocks someone's pass or shot. Waterpolo also involves swimming, which means Newtons third law is demonstrated when they pull, kick and egg-beater. For egg-beating, the more you push, the higher you go up. For example, when someone wants to shoot, you wanna get as high out of the water as possible by egg-beating your legs faster and harder. This game ended with another victory =] Awesome Job guys!!!

Homecoming 08'

This past friday was HOMECOMING WEEK!!! And we finally WON!!! YAY! After the game ended I went with my friend Steph and Cherise to senior benches to hang out and kill time. It was way too crowded to go to the Ho'olaulea so we decided to just stay at senior benches. Of course Steph wanted to take oodles of pictures, and that's exactly what we did. While i was looking at the pictures, i realized there's physics everywhere! Because we are standing on the bench, in regards to the ground, we all have potential energy. If we were to jump off of the bench (which we did after taking the picture) the potential energy would gradually change into kinetic energy. Also, in regards to the bench, there are two forces acting upon us, mg and a normal force.

Homecoming was awesome and i cant wait till next years' one!

GO JUNIORS!!!! 2010!!!!! =P!

Reflection

So far, physics has been an exhilirating rollar-coaster ride. There were its ups and downs, but of course more ups than downs. =) I honestly always look forward to coming to class (except on test days =P). Labs are always fun, even though most of the time it involves alot of math. The atmosphere of our classroom is fun and very welcoming, i always feel comfortable in class. The physics context itself is fun and interesting, therefore it makes class even better. I chose a happy face as my picture that represents my feelings about this past quarter in physics because my feelings about physics are good, i like physics. My goal for the upcoming quarter is just to give my best efforts, no matter what the grade may be. Overall i am satisfied with this past quarter, and look forward to the rest of the year. oh! and physics is by far wayyy better the chemistry (shhh) =P!

15th Birthday Party

This past summer, we had a swim meet on the first weekend of July called Keo Nakama Invitational. It was a two day meet and on Saturday night we went someones house for a potluck/team bonding dinner. Being typical girls, my friends and i love taking pictures and we went outside to take some. We decided to try to make a pyramid. Due to gravity or the acceleration of -9.8 meters per second squared, it was more difficult than we thought. We fell a couple times. When we were falling we were experiencing free fall at the rate of -9.8 meters per second squared, the same as the gravitational force. However, after many trials, we finally mastered the pose. Maybe if we were on a different planet with a gravitational force less than what we have on earth, we would have had an easier time.....