A SERIES OF EVENTS... So my original plan was to upload a video of myself riding the "GREEN-MACHINE", but......it didn't work! So I decided to take screen shots from the recording and create this "series of events...": a step by step display of the ride I took on the Green-Machine (:
Riding this contraction (I'm not too sure if its classified as a bike or something), involves many kinematic elements. Kinematics deals with distance, scalars, vectors, displacement, average speed, velocity, and acceleration. When I began my ride, I started about 40 meters away from the green garage door you see in the background. This would be classified as the "total distance" traveled. My "displacement" was also 40 meters being that I did not ride back to my starting point. My complete ride consisted of me accelerating down the street then accelerating back up the street in order to come to a complete stop. I relate my journey to how you would throw a ball up in the air. When a ball is thrown in the air, its acceleration going up goes: fast, slow, stop (peak). Coming back down, its acceleration goes: stop(peak), slow, fast. I relate my journey to acceleration of the ball when traveling upward. I accelerated up the street quickly, then slowed down, and swerved roughly to a stop. Trust me, stoping suddenly on this thing isn't as easy as it looks. It takes balance because the tires are pretty slippery. I actually don't have very good balance, so I'm not too sure how I'm able to pull this off :p But anyway, that was my day + physics (:
I like this blogpost the best so far, and the pictures look really cool!
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