Application of Physics

With Newtons first law it helps me when it comes to work. I work at

Best Buy and some days I have to lug a 70" TV across my store. To make
things easier on myself I use my body weight to pull the TV forward. My body
weight is more efficient then my pure muscle strength. Some tvs are harder
to pull due to more friction. Whether it's an uneven box or a TV with a sleeve
on it with a lip. It also helps with stopping items and how to stop it without
hurting me or making the object fall or break. For example throwing keys.
When I catch keys being tossed at me I have my hand move back as it hits
my hand to make the impact hurt less.
We learned more about the concept of Newtons third and second law
and how they correlate. It helps me so much in understanding my major. My
major will include building things and making them make and do. With these
laws it helps me understand how and why things work the way they do. In
my everyday life it helps me feel more confident driving in the snow, and
understand how to avoid getting into accidents. Physics is literally
everywhere, and is the reason behind the why in everything. When I walk my
foot pushes on the ground and the ground pushes on me, or if I were to lean
on a wall, I push the wall and the wall pushes on me as well. With every
action theres an equal and opposite reaction.
We talked about Work during the 3rd week. When you push an object
you exert work on the object. Items that move the same distance has the
same work exerted. However the power is different. It helps with excuses on
doing work, getting out of work, OR making people's excuses invalid. It also
helps with making workloads easier and finding better ways to get one object
to another location with using less power. Having more pulleys will help with
the work exerted on the object.
We also learned about momentum and energy. Knowing momentum
and centrifugal force is nice when trying to move liquids without making a
mess. Knowing how and where the object will go also helps with playing
fetch with my dog, or throwing keys to my coworkers. Helps anticipate where
the object will go and how far.
We then learned about Buoyancy. It's about the weight of items in
water. It's interesting to know this because it helps with experimenting. It
correlates with submarines and knowing how they are able to dive deeper
into the water. It's going to be interesting experimenting with buoyancy on
water. Being able to figure out how to sink deeper into water. Also Water
pressure. This is very nice to know about when it comes to camping. Getting
good water pressure and getting the liquids out of a can that decided not to
open properly. This also explains a lot when I went to visit my family in Texas
and the water pressure isn't as optimal as it is here.
We learned mostly about solids, liquids, and gases. Most stuff I already
knew from taking physics in High School. Some of the stuff that was
completely new to me was Pascal's Principle. That was really interesting to
learn and helps with boating. Being able to figure out how to get onto that
blasted water floaty without having it tip over. And knowing the surface
tension will help a lot when it comes to floating. I really love water and
swimming and knowing how liquids works will help with boating, swimming
and playing tricks on my nieces and nephew.
The denser an object is the more time it takes to heat up. This is good
to note, especially for my profession I'll be going into. Being able to tell how
heat is transferred will help with building items. Going into Mechanical
Engineering I'll be doing a lot of just that. This also makes a lot more sense
when it comes to lakes and oceans. Whenever I went to the beach when I
was little the sad was always burning hot, but the water would be freezing
cold, and it never made sense to me. How that I know the why behind these
questions I had when I was little, I would be able to control more of how I am
affected and how to make life much easier.
During classes this week we talked about wave lengths and
frequencies. We also talked about heat pumps and the laws of
Thermodynamics. Learning this actually helped me understand a lot of why
after I am impatient boiling water here in the city. I used to live up next to
Park City and don't remember taking so long just to boil water. Now I feel,
smarter knowing why it takes much longer. Also knowing how heat transfers
work helps with controlling how to maintain heat. With wavelengths and
frequencies from what we learned thus far, the Doppler affect is an
interesting concept when it comes to sound. Being a musician, and knowing
how the sound wavelengths behave will help a ton with being able to play
loud and well and get the best points possible.
Every day we have sound in some way or another. For me its music,
either listening to music or playing music. Being able to know the why
behind the music works actually helps me with my playing. Being able to
understand how things work the way they do, helps me be able to use them
more to how they are supposed to be used. Knowing the differences between
the different conductors and insulators will help me with building things. I'm
wanting to become and engineer and being able to understand what helps
with the current will help me not only build better, but to not kill myself with
the electrical current.
 Being an engineer and being able to understand a circuit is a very
important thing. Being able to connect the source will help build the
machines I will be putting together in the future. Magnetism is a very
interesting phenomenon, because with the right ideas and engineering we
can make such amazing things. The faster trains are a prime example. For
me if we have the right ideas we could make faster and more energy
efficient travel. Elevators, escalators, etc. are some examples of what
could be used with magnetism.
Being an engineer, knowing how colors and light work and mix will help
with the different type of things I will be building. For example; creating a
color light spectrum for a club or a party of some sort, being able to know
which colors make what and be able to execute it will help with the
invention. Knowing the properties of refraction will also help with organizing
the layout of certain inventions. For example, if I'm needing to refract a light
to create a certain effect, I will need to know the behavior so I would be able
to execute it effectively, instead of doing a ton of trial and error to get one
simple job done. Also, putting the behavior of refraction to reality's sake,
going to the most efficient path will reduce time, than if you were to take the
shortest route.
Dispersion is the process of separation of light into colors arranged by
frequency. Or how I would like to call it; the Pink Floyd Effect. As a potential
photographer, knowing how light gets separated and reflected will come into
great use, when trying to get the right outcome of a setting. Ive always
wanted to create illusions, and I think it would be awesome to know how to
use reflection when I make devices in my field of study. Using Converging
and Diverging lenses will help with creating that illusion effect. We also
learned about Huygens Principle, which will also help knowing the behavior
of light to not only help create great effects of pictures but also creating
great illusion effects. We also learned a little bit about Quantum and how
quanta of light are just photons. Quanta is the smallest measurement known.