In this project, I examine different types of physics by building ball tracks out of KEVA Planks. The reason why I chose this means of representing physics is that KEVA Planks was one of my favorite construction sets when I was a kid due to the ability to create an array of builds from pieces of the exact same shape and size. The physics I am studying in this project are acceleration, force, and momentum.
Each physics type includes a video of its corresponding ball track, calculations for the physics type, and my reflections. Note that the calculation results may not be completely accurate due to the skewed perspective of the camera on the sides of the track, the meter marks not being on the track, the usage of instantaneous velocities for some physics types since the balls never rolled at constant velocities. In addition, the videos do not have pause frames at every hundredth second, and some pause frames in the videos have two hundredths of a second overlapping. Also, while I explore two accelerations and momenta, I only explore one force.
One way I can improve this project in the future is by examining two forces in order to make comparisons between them.
