Thursday, June 16, 2011

Unit Two: Displacement


Displacement is the distance of the starting position from the final position of a point. In physics, displacement is used to determine points in position vs. time graphs and is one of the variables in the average velocity formula (V = d/t). When I take my dogs for a walk, the distance I walk is about 200 meters long. At the end of the walk I am in front of the gate to my house.  Since I am back where my starting point was at the beginning of the walk, the displacement is zero meters. Here is a drawing/diagram of my block and the route I take with my four dogs; the Shih Tzu (Baxter), the Maltese-Poodle (Zeus), the two bulldogs (the big one is Buddy and the smaller one with the big ears is Pebbles).

6 comments:

  1. When I saw this I was like, "OMG, NO WAY! SO CUTE!!" I love this Alexis. The scale doesn't make any sense, which is the reason why this drawing is so cute. You could also talk about that; "that" being drawing things to scale. Mr.Blake talked about it in class.

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  2. I know but it is just a cartoon/diagram of my walk from the starting point and back for displacement

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  3. I love this. Your picture, your description, your reasoning. I love everything. Your picture was adorable. Your description and reasoning made a lot of sense and the explanation of displacement was simple, yet covered everything.

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  4. I really like your unique picture! You're such a creative artist; applying physics to art.

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  5. @Juliet: thanks, I couldn't really think of anything else cause I told Blake to do basketball suicides as his reference so I used my dogs for this :D

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  6. @Jess: thanks, gotta use what you got.

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