Star Wars and Band References!

There are going to be a lot of puns in this one, so hold onto your hats! Or I guess the most socially acceptable head wear are beanies and snapbacks, so hold onto those! This time we will be discussing force. If you read my last blog post, you'll know that I'm about to make lots of puns. Shh... Just Go With It. Yes that is an Every Avenue album. Look it up, they're a good band.   =)
I have to give you a little background review so...

No we are not talking about the Skywalkers' use of the force (although Luke is pretty adorable), we are talking about the scientific, REAL force. The one in REAL life. Did I mention this one is REAL? Ok good. Back to force.

Force is the push or pulling of an object. To be more fancy, force is any influence that causes an object to undergo a certain change, either concerning its movement, direction, or shape. Basically, anything that causes change to happen. Get it? Got it? Good.

Moving on. Ok so I thought I wasn't going to be able to reference Teen Wolf, but I guess I can. Knowing some people will skip this paragraph, I'm not going to include pictures of the Carver twins that I'm going to be using. Let's say Aiden and Ethan combine to make that giant Alpha werewolf thing. Now Derek is an omega, so he's tiny and weak. The twins can grab him and fling his across the room, and Derek can't do anything about it. That, my friends, is an example of something influencing Derek's movement and position, therefore it is force.

Now for those of you who skipped the paragraph up there ^^^, I have a picture for you.

See this number 1 dude? Ok well he was holding a rubber, yellow ball. He was bored and saw a squirrel. Since he was bored and wasn't thinking clearly, he threw the ball at said squirrel, injuring it greatly and making it very, very angry. He changed the position of the ball, therefore he applied force. Next and final example. Hopefully, you had/have a wonderful childhood, and you played with Play-Doh at one point in your life. Now let's say you make a ball and flatten it. You applied force by trying to make an inedible pancake. Good Job!

What exactly do you measure this with Gabby? I'm glad you asked random internet person! Now you remember when I showed these two dashing fellows in a previous blog post?

Ok I will openly admit that I chose the comparison because let's face it, Lahey is adorable.

Anywho, Newton is going to come up a lot in the next few blog post so beware. Force is measured in Newtons. But what are Newtons? Newtons are the units used to measure force. The formula involves multiplication (shocker considering all of the other formulas we've done involves a / b = c), so put your thinking caps on. The formula is F=ma.

 

Knowing the people who are going to be viewing this are most likely in my class and are laughing at this, I chose a picture that was both educational and slightly funny!

Okay so I haven't told you everything yet. Actually, I'm no where close to being finished so get comfortable m'kay? About net force next, we must talk. (Yoda reference, don't laugh I'm a geek at heart okay?)

Net force net force..... How to explain net force. Maybe this picture will help, yeah?

Doesn't help? Ok well... umm... let me see how I can help. See, net force is the overall force acting on an object. Gravity, believe it or not, is not the only force acting on us. If it was, then we would go right through the Earth and that would terribly and horribly painful. But the resistance force and gravity have to be balanced or else one would win and we would either float or sink. That's a song by Fall Out Boy by the way. Look it up on YouTube, too. 

Balanced forces are forces that have the same acceleration and the cancel out. The result? You don't move. Unbalanced forces are one having more (here's that word again>>>) Newtons than the other and that result is you moving. 

Okay stay with me because we're almost done here. Last thing we have to talk about is thrust.  Yes, you read it correctly, thrust. Thrust is a reaction force that results when accelerating mass goes in ONE DIRECTION (bwhahahaha =P). Want examples? Look at the picture of net force and the one below ^ ~ ^

 

Okay that was a very long blog post wasn't it? Dear lord. One final note, nothing big or anything.  Just a little fun fact; Centripetal force! What is it? It's a force that makes something follow a curved path. Like in the superhero movies like Batman where he uses that grappling hook and shoots it at a giant steel pillar thingy and it turns his car in a complete circle to make a U-turn. There is totally science in superhero movies. Cool huh?

So I hope you liked my blog! There was a lot of information on this one, so sorry if you thought it was really lengthy. That and I'm a rambler so it may have been random stuff. Any who, links to info are here and here! Links for the pictures are the same as usual, CTRL + Click. Have an awesome week and I'll see you next time!

xx-G