Project Assignment/ Physics of Our Daily Life

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NSCI100 Summer Session 2013 Project Assignment Physics of our daily life Physics is in everything we do from getting in the car to go to work, velocity is an aspect of physics the speed and the direction of an object, how long it will take to go from point A to point B (distance traveled by time). Also at work depending on what you do at work for instance the force of friction is the resistive force that opposes the motion of an object in my job I am constantly moving items from one side of a warehouse to the next, the force of frictions applies to me constantly understanding the net force (the combination of all forces that act on an object) and the force of frictions makes work assignments much easier to complete. Friction is a force that is created whenever two surfaces move or try to move across each other. It also depends on the on the texture of both surfaces and the on the amount of contact force pushing the two surfaces together. Collision is another physic aspect when moving objects collide in the real world they sometimes crush and collapse to some degree. There are two types of collision elastic collision: In an elastic collision, the total kinetic energy in the system is the same before and after the collision. If losses to heat and deformation are much smaller than the other energies involved, such as when two pool balls collide and go their separate ways, you can generally ignore the losses and say that kinetic energy was conserved. And inelastic collision: In an inelastic collision, the collision changes the total kinetic energy in a closed system. In this case, friction, deformation, or some other process transforms the kinetic energy. If you can observe appreciable energy losses due to non conservative forces (such as friction), kinetic energy isn’t conserved. * As I continue to learn more about physics is how everything relates to

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