In physics lab today we did torque and rotation. Mind. Blown.
I've always known that when you tuck you rotate faster than a layout and layouts feel floaty because you actually rotating slower and that this was all because of physics, but oh man. I really get it now. When you bring your mass in to the center of rotation (increasing inertia) it increases your angular momentum, aka how fast you spin. I'm pretty sure that's it. It's been a long day.
For example when you're front tucking and you're about to land you open your tuck... which slows your rotation. And when you layout the rotation is slower because the mass is spread over a greater distance. One learning a layout might have the tendency to pike down... because that makes you rotate faster so as to land on our feet instead of our faces. And we have the air sense to know when we need to do that... wow!!
I got really excited when I realized that the whole lab was basically about tumbling. I even got to draw a stick figure of a person doing a front tuck to illustrate a real life example of linear kinetic energy changing into rotational kinetic energy. Yay!
I've always known that when you tuck you rotate faster than a layout and layouts feel floaty because you actually rotating slower and that this was all because of physics, but oh man. I really get it now. When you bring your mass in to the center of rotation (increasing inertia) it increases your angular momentum, aka how fast you spin. I'm pretty sure that's it. It's been a long day.
For example when you're front tucking and you're about to land you open your tuck... which slows your rotation. And when you layout the rotation is slower because the mass is spread over a greater distance. One learning a layout might have the tendency to pike down... because that makes you rotate faster so as to land on our feet instead of our faces. And we have the air sense to know when we need to do that... wow!!
I got really excited when I realized that the whole lab was basically about tumbling. I even got to draw a stick figure of a person doing a front tuck to illustrate a real life example of linear kinetic energy changing into rotational kinetic energy. Yay!