Saturday, March 12, 2016

How Kinematics is used in daily life? (Physics)

 One dimensional kinematics:
Example is train on a straight railroad. Piston in a cylinder. Climbing up the rope.

2-d vectors and projectiles:
Example is cannonball, or any other ball flying through the air. Every motion on a flat surface.

Centripetal motion:
The Moon and the Earth, satellites

Torque:
Wrench, screwdriver, gears, bicycle chain and sprocket, all kinds of rotating levers.

Sound and light:
There's so many examples that it's hard to pick one :)
Moving membrane of a loudspeaker can be example of sound-generating device, and mirrors and lenses are related to light phenomena.

And where would hitting a golf ball be in physics?
It depends. It can be in kinematics or in dynamics (which are both parts of mechanics). If only motion of a golf ball is discussed, with terms like velocity, acceleration, displacement etc. then it's in kinematics. Kinematics doesn't deal with mass, force and impulse. If mass, force, and impulse are also mentioned, than its dynamics.

For cool experiment, go check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs 

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