My Physics Concept
For my groups golf course project, we had to create a golf course based of a physics concept. We choose the concept, centripetal force. Centripetal force is a force that makes a body follow a curved path. In other words, it is the force that pushes and object or body toward the center. A example of centripetal force is spinning a bucket that has water in it in a vertical circle. The water is traveling as the same speed as the bucket thats holding it. That way, the water will always remain inside of the bucket and wont fall spill out as long as the bucket is spinning at a constant speed. The bucket is the centripetal force in this case. If you can look inside of the bucket, you would see that all of the water is leaning to the outward side of the bucket. It is trying to go straight but the centripetal force(the bucket) is pushing it to the center of the circle movement, hence the name centripetal.
Pictures of the Model
For my groups golf course project, we had to create a golf course based of a physics concept. We choose the concept, centripetal force. Centripetal force is a force that makes a body follow a curved path. In other words, it is the force that pushes and object or body toward the center. A example of centripetal force is spinning a bucket that has water in it in a vertical circle. The water is traveling as the same speed as the bucket thats holding it. That way, the water will always remain inside of the bucket and wont fall spill out as long as the bucket is spinning at a constant speed. The bucket is the centripetal force in this case. If you can look inside of the bucket, you would see that all of the water is leaning to the outward side of the bucket. It is trying to go straight but the centripetal force(the bucket) is pushing it to the center of the circle movement, hence the name centripetal.
Pictures of the Model