Hello. This is my second project with STEM and it was very fun. We had to do a video about the physics of a sport. The sport that my group did was paintball. My group consisted of Parker Spencer, Ruby Jacobs, and Mariana Warcholski.
When we first started this project, we decided to do the physics of motorcross. This a sport on bikes where people did big jumps. But because of time constraints, we wouldn't be able to finish the video by the due date if we continued with this idea. So we change it. Our next idea was archery but a bunch of groups were doing that already, so we decided to be unique and do paintball. We filmed around the school and at Parker's house. We finally were able to finish the video because of Wondershare Video Editor, which made the editing very easy.
We had to main calculations with our project. There were two targets, one closer and one farther. We had to find the force and velocity from these to targets. Here is how we found them.
Force:
The equation to measure force is F=ma.
Force on short target: 11.37- about 2.5 lbs of force.
Force on farther target: 9.48- about 2 lbs of force.
Velocity:
The equation to measure velocity is V=d/t
Velocity at short target: 56.89
Velocity at farther target: 56.89
During this project, I learned many new things. One thing I learned is how to edit better. This gave me practice in my editing skills. Another thing I learned is how to correctly shoot a paintball. Shooting the paintball at an angle of 45 degrees will give it the maximum distance. Shooting it 90 degrees will shoot it the highest distance. I also learned that getting hit by the paintball would hurt a lot more then I expected it to. What I felt we could have done better is look at the rubric a bit closer. We didn't have all the requirements necessary to get 100%. So we had to rush and fit those in to the video. I thought our group did very well together. We all were able to make agreements. We agreed really quickly that we should drop motorcross and do paintball in about 10 minutes. With some groups, that might take a whole class! We also decided on the song reasonably well. Radioactive by Imagine Dragons was the perfect choice because of the bass drop in the beginning. Overall, I think everyone in my group contributed greatly to project in a great.
When we first started this project, we decided to do the physics of motorcross. This a sport on bikes where people did big jumps. But because of time constraints, we wouldn't be able to finish the video by the due date if we continued with this idea. So we change it. Our next idea was archery but a bunch of groups were doing that already, so we decided to be unique and do paintball. We filmed around the school and at Parker's house. We finally were able to finish the video because of Wondershare Video Editor, which made the editing very easy.
We had to main calculations with our project. There were two targets, one closer and one farther. We had to find the force and velocity from these to targets. Here is how we found them.
Force:
The equation to measure force is F=ma.
Force on short target: 11.37- about 2.5 lbs of force.
Force on farther target: 9.48- about 2 lbs of force.
Velocity:
The equation to measure velocity is V=d/t
Velocity at short target: 56.89
Velocity at farther target: 56.89
During this project, I learned many new things. One thing I learned is how to edit better. This gave me practice in my editing skills. Another thing I learned is how to correctly shoot a paintball. Shooting the paintball at an angle of 45 degrees will give it the maximum distance. Shooting it 90 degrees will shoot it the highest distance. I also learned that getting hit by the paintball would hurt a lot more then I expected it to. What I felt we could have done better is look at the rubric a bit closer. We didn't have all the requirements necessary to get 100%. So we had to rush and fit those in to the video. I thought our group did very well together. We all were able to make agreements. We agreed really quickly that we should drop motorcross and do paintball in about 10 minutes. With some groups, that might take a whole class! We also decided on the song reasonably well. Radioactive by Imagine Dragons was the perfect choice because of the bass drop in the beginning. Overall, I think everyone in my group contributed greatly to project in a great.