Physics of Sports Video
Description:
For our second project of freshman year, we were asked to help the student athletes of San Marin by explaining the physics of different motions in sports to help them perform much more efficiently. We were to explain our research through a video that could be understood by not just our fellow classmates and our teacher.
My specific group decided to not just base our video on a motion that is incorporated in one sport, but to use a motion that is used in multiple sports such as soccer, baseball, and football. This was the roll. Rolls are essential in most sports that involve running. If a player were to trip or fall, rolling can help by decreasing injury and building momentum in the brief moment a player is not in the game. The parts of the roll that our video primarily focused on were the run into the roll, tucking into the roll, and the run after the roll. The video hopefully will help athletes become more efficient while rolling and trying to get back into their game.
Content:
Reflection:
Although we finished our video closer to the deadline than we had wanted, I felt that our group worked overall very well together when it came getting our video finished.
One of the things that I found went well in this project was multitasking. This type of project made it easier for us to use all of our time to be working on different parts of the project. For example, while one of our group members would be working on a voiceover to include in the video, another would be perfecting the storyboard to make sure each clip was placed in the correct order. Another peak in making the videos was my group's ability to accept each other's ideas and adapt to new changes. After working with our Rube Goldberg groups for a while, I thought it would be more difficult to work successfully with a completely different group of people. It was actually much easier than I had expected, and our group would always take into account other member's ideas,helping to produce a great video that incorporated every group member.
There is no such thing as a group project with no problems throughout the entire process. This was proved through our experiment. One thing that I would go back and change when we started the project was using a non-portable computer to edit our video. This meant that we could only edit at one place, which was not school. It made it difficult to complete multiple parts of the video at once, since we couldn't immediately place our clips into the editing software. I will continue to work upon being more of a leader in group projects. I was not always as focused on completing the video as I should have been, which inevitably held us back. If every group member could lead without being overpowering, each component of the project could be closer to perfect.
For our second project of freshman year, we were asked to help the student athletes of San Marin by explaining the physics of different motions in sports to help them perform much more efficiently. We were to explain our research through a video that could be understood by not just our fellow classmates and our teacher.
My specific group decided to not just base our video on a motion that is incorporated in one sport, but to use a motion that is used in multiple sports such as soccer, baseball, and football. This was the roll. Rolls are essential in most sports that involve running. If a player were to trip or fall, rolling can help by decreasing injury and building momentum in the brief moment a player is not in the game. The parts of the roll that our video primarily focused on were the run into the roll, tucking into the roll, and the run after the roll. The video hopefully will help athletes become more efficient while rolling and trying to get back into their game.
Content:
- Velocity- the change in distance over the change in time. Velocity is measured in meters per second or miles per hour. In our video, the roller had a velocity of 3.375 m/s because he had gone 2.7 meters over 0.8 seconds during the roll.
- Acceleration- the change in velocity over the change in time. Acceleration is measured in meters per square second. When our roller rolled properly, he accelerated by 0.895 meters per square second. This was found by using our change in velocity in the run before the roll and the run after the roll divided by the time the run took before the roll and the the time the run after took.
- Force- can be described as a push or pull. When the roller pushed down on the ground to begin the roll, he exerted a force of 140 lbs. onto the ground, which was his weight.
Reflection:
Although we finished our video closer to the deadline than we had wanted, I felt that our group worked overall very well together when it came getting our video finished.
One of the things that I found went well in this project was multitasking. This type of project made it easier for us to use all of our time to be working on different parts of the project. For example, while one of our group members would be working on a voiceover to include in the video, another would be perfecting the storyboard to make sure each clip was placed in the correct order. Another peak in making the videos was my group's ability to accept each other's ideas and adapt to new changes. After working with our Rube Goldberg groups for a while, I thought it would be more difficult to work successfully with a completely different group of people. It was actually much easier than I had expected, and our group would always take into account other member's ideas,helping to produce a great video that incorporated every group member.
There is no such thing as a group project with no problems throughout the entire process. This was proved through our experiment. One thing that I would go back and change when we started the project was using a non-portable computer to edit our video. This meant that we could only edit at one place, which was not school. It made it difficult to complete multiple parts of the video at once, since we couldn't immediately place our clips into the editing software. I will continue to work upon being more of a leader in group projects. I was not always as focused on completing the video as I should have been, which inevitably held us back. If every group member could lead without being overpowering, each component of the project could be closer to perfect.