As of to date we have covered approximately half Hewitt’s book and I hope you have learned a lot of yum stuff about how nature behaves. For your next assignment which is due at the end of the semester, document and describe 5 “aha” moments from your everyday life where you have observed something that you have learned throughout the semester or will learn in coming weeks. Feel free to go back and recall something that happened early in the year. The one condition is that you do not regurgitate or duplicate an example that I have given in class. For example, you can’t describe a time where you were on a see-saw with your cousin Vinny
and realized that by leaning back and forth you could make the see-saw go up and down because I gave that example in class. However, feel free to reproduce the event if your recollection is fuzzy so you may describe it more clearly. Be brief, and focus on the physics. Here is what I would like you to document:
1.What law of physics does this observation or event refer to (1 sentence)
2.Describe the observation or event (2 to 3 sentences)
- Describe the “aha” aspect where you relate the event to the law of physics that you have learned and how it made you feel so much smarter! (2 – 3 sentences)
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