Category Archives: Inquiry

Module One Post Twelve (Energy in hockey)

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Cite used: https://science360.gov/obj/video/c5be5456-2e39-49a7-8118-218868df89eb/work-energy-power

Once again breaking down another video from one of the previous mentioned cites, this video is about a theory of physics. A slapshot, one of the best representations of the game of hockey is a great example of the physic theory of work, energy, power. Energy is the power that will accelerate the puck. Both kinetic and potential energy could be used during a slapshot. Kinetic is the movement of energy, for example weight transfer or even a swing from your arm. Potential energy is the energy stored in a object, for example a hockey stick. Work is when force hits an object therefore displaces it, in this case the puck. Lastly power is the amount of work done overtime. In all, this cite will be extremely useful, because i believe this will be a good guide for me in the long term during my project.

module one post 13 (race lab)

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Race lab karting is a store that sells karting equipment and supplies. their website, theracelab.com, has information about the products that they are selling. Some products they sell are ones that I use in my karting.

One street I can follow for this project is karting safety. This website will help because it has info on products that I use. Having this info in one place is very helpful to me for the project. It will also help me get info on these safety products.

Module One Post 11 (Kinematics)

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Cite used:https://science360.gov/obj/video/0a558e3f-ac36-4e34-80c6-4ec6552657b3/kinematics

This resource comes from a site already mentioned, however i am just further explaining each video. This video here defines what kinematics is and how it is applied in hockey. First kinematics is the way to define a moving object by position, velocity and acceleration. Position is where located on the ice, velocity is the speed/aggression in the strides. Lastly acceleration is the calculation of standstill speed to top speed which most NHL players can hit around 30 miles per hour. In all this is a very handy website, with very informative and true information. An extremely reliable site that will help me throughout the project.

Module 1 Post 15 (The Geometry of Ballet)

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This last prezi https://prezi.com/28tsc8jiwg71/the-geometry-of-ballet/ didn’t have much information on rotation, translation, and reflection. Although it did talk about the angles. While performing an arabesque a dancer has to have her leg at a 90-135 degree angle. While performing a grand jete a dancer has to have her legs at 180 degrees so basically a straight line.

This was useful because normally when I view sites with the title geometry of ballet, I normally think it’ll be about geometry but this site was very different and had different examples. This will be useful because I know that angles are even involved in the studio.

Module 1 Post 14 (The Geometry of Ballet)

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https://prezi.com/4ek7nbe6sz0t/the-geometry-of-ballet/

I found another prezi on geometry in ballet. This prezi has more typos then the other one but it does have useful information. This prezi explained that geometry has helped ballet dancers and it gave new information on how ballet uses rotation, translation, and reflection.

This was useful because it gave new examples of how ballet uses geometry. The explanations were very good. And it Incorporated pictures so it helped me understand how ballet had that specific type of math involved in  it.

Module 1 Post 13 (The Geometry of Ballet)

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Since it is getting a little harder to find sites on how ballet is related to math I decided to try a Prezi. I found this one https://prezi.com/72rlha79knaz/the-geometry-of-ballet/ and it was pretty useful so I decided to put it as one of my posts. This Prezi explains basic geometry like reflection translation rotation and symmetry. They gave lots of examples like while doing a pirouette your using rotation.

This was useful because it had examples along with pictures and videos. They explained things really well and it was really helpful. This can also help me understand why posture is so important in ballet because if you are slouching or sitting on one hip it won’t be a proper reflection or you won’t be symmetric.

Module 1 Post 12 (Mathematics Of Ballet)

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https://mathofballet.weebly.com/blog

This site was like many others I found. It was someone else’s blog but they did find really good information. There is a variety of different examples of why math is involved in ballet. For example spacial formations, angles, symmetry and counting the music. All of this is important to a ballerina. When a professional company performs they need apply all of these (especially spacial formation).

This was helpful because there was a lot of examples and I have multiple different forms of math to chose from. The one I found the most useful was the spacial formations because that is very important to a ballerina.

Module 1 Post 11 (The Physicist Who Figured Out Ballet)

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http://discovermagazine.com/2008/the-body/11-the-physicist-who-figured-out-ballet

I found a site with information on how ballet is related to physics. Ballet involves physics and this site had a lot of information. It explained which moves had physics and how to apply it. It was written by Kevin Laws who is a actual ballet teacher now and who wrote three books. He explained that ballet is much more then practice and really strong toes.

This site helped me because there were multiple examples on how ballet involved physics. Most sites just list one example but this site had multiple. I can also apply this while I’m doing ballet, and I can understand it better if I had my own experience. But overall this was a very helpful site.

 

 

Module One Post Eleven (Background Information of Tap)

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For mt eleventh website, I found a website that is very encouraging for others to consider doing tap dance. The website mainly talks about how tap has helped people throughout the centuries and how it was there before break dancing. This website is very informative about how tap dancers got their gigs and how the dance style originated and how it has evolved. during the 1930’s tap dancers would go out onto the streets and meet with other dancers and teach each other the new steps that they made up and compete with each other with their own combinations. In the 1920’s there was a big tree in New York that the dancer’s would sit under in the shade of the tree. it was a well known spot so the producers always knew where to find the dancers for some shows that they want them in. Tap dancing is a very active sport and is great for entertainment and that is what people always needed in their free time if all they do is to just roam around the city during the day not knowing what to do. This website has mentioned many people who were very well known in this area of dance. A few of those people are Jimmy Slyde and Buster Brown. They also mention some very popular tap combinations that everyone knew, for example the Shim Sham and the BS Chorus. I think this website is great for people who want some background knowledge about tap dancing and how it grew.

Module One Post Thirteen (geometry in drawing)

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This website talks about geometry in perspective. In old, famous paintings you can clearly see how the artist used geometry in his/her work.

PAULO UCCELLO (1396-1475) 'Perspective Drawing of a Chalice'

This art piece by Paulo Uccello called ‘Perspective Drawing of a Chalice’, shows how even back then, geometry was used in paintings. Artists always value how geometry can help their art become realistic, and visually pleasing.

http://www.artyfactory.com/perspective_drawing/perspective_11.html