Friday, September 13, 2013
Hovercraft Post
Riding a hovercraft is a really cool experience, but it did take some getting used to. If I get spun around a bit during the initial push, that spin would continue through the entire short journey. I had to adjust my weight a little bit so I wouldn't be pressing part of the hovercraft down and causing it to drag along the floor, but other than that I didn't have to do much except sit (and hold the power cord in place). I learned about inertia in a very (for lack of a better word) personal way, due to me feeling it in action. The acceleration is entirely dependent on the initial force that propels the hovercraft along, unless some other force acts upon it and changes it's momentum. I would expect to have a constant velocity when the hovercraft is just coasting along with no force acting on it. The heavier members of the group were harder to stop in general because they had more mass and more force required to overcome their "resting" inertia.
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I really enjoyed reading this post. I thought you wrote it in a very compelling way that grabbed me as a reader. Your post is more interesting than mine because you had good word choice. We both say similar points about the mass and how this lab helped us further our knowledge of Inertia. I think one thing that you could do to make it better is to talk more about what you learned, but other wise it was a great post.
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