Physics of Sports/Action You will work in groups of 3. You must pick some aspect of a sport to cover. You will collect all the data you can on that aspect, including video of the action being performed. All your data will be analyzed. To Do: 1. Identify the sport or action you will investigate. 2. Capture the action on video. 3. Create a shared drive for your group. 4. Save the video in your shared drive. 5. Conduct analysis of motion of all important objects (i.e. bat and ball for a baseball swing). The specifics will vary greatly by group. However, you should try to incorporate answers to the following ideas: Was there constant velocity? If so, when and how do you know? What is the highest velocity you measured? How did velocity change? Why does velocity change? What about acceleration? o Is there acceleration? o Is it constant? o Does area under your acceleration graph equal the change in velocity you read from your data table? What are the masses of your objects? Did you measure them or estimate them? If estimated how did you arrive at your value? What is the highest force you can find? How does your video demonstrate Newtons Three Laws? How can you prove this? What forces exist in your system? Draw a free body diagram for each of your objects. Please do not simply give me a list of answers to questions. Make it paragraph text. You should include graphs and or pictures to help support your conclusions. Physics of Sports/Action Rubric: Totally Inadequate Poor (1) (0) Video analysis Just plain wrong or Motion of only one no logger pro file object tracked or present. missing multiple components logger pro file is attached Velocities No mention of determined graphs data only and described read from tables Accelerations No mention of determined graphs data only and described read from tables None included, or only included so they are there. i.e. they do not enhance understanding Outstanding (3) Motion of all important objects tracked but missing one of: axis alignment, good point placement. Axis is aligned with the important motion, point placement is sound. Motion of all important objects tracked. logger pro file attached Tracker file is attached Velocity correlated with Velocity correlated slope of position with slope of graphs. Not all position graphs. velocities determined Velocity of all objects determined Acceleration correlated with slope of velocity graphs. Not all accelerations determined Text is clear Would be clearer if There is little to no flow and coherent a 1st grader typed it. in the text or the text is unclear. Graphs Pictures Acceptable (2) Graph use is confusing at best or is inadequate for understanding (i.e. missing important ones or there are extras that are distracting). Velocities graphs correlated with displacement and slope of position graph. All relevant velocities determined and compared Acceleration Acceleration graphs correlated with correlated with change slope of velocity in velocity and slope of graphs. velocity graphs. All Accelerations of all relevant accelerations objects determined determined and compared Flow of your text is Your text is so good I good. Your main had to Google it to prove points are clear and you didn't plagiarize it. concise. All graphs used enhance understanding and your explanation could not be enhanced by including any more. There are none that are not needed. Discussion of Forces Text is clear Would be clearer if There is little to no flow and coherent a monkey typed it in the text or the text is unclear or there are more than two grammatical errors. Graphs Pictures None included, or Graph use is confusing only included so at best or is inadequate they are there. i.e. for understanding (i.e. they do not enhance missing important ones understanding or there are extras that are distracting). Flow of your text is Your text is so good I good and there is had to Google it to prove no more than one you didn't plagiarize it. or two grammatical errors. Your main points are clear and concise. All graphs used enhance understanding and your explanation could not be enhanced by including any more. There are none that are not needed. Physics of Sports/Action There are opportunities for bonus points all along the way in this project. What counts as a bonus? Going above and beyond what I've asked for. What does this mean? I'm not sure, but I'll know it when I see it. Collecting extra data along the way to add to your initial video. This may include, but is not limited to: o Shooting new video to highlight a specific aspect o Using some of our Vernier Sensors to collect data Adding an experimental question that you can test (will probably also necessitate collecting more data)
