De Call Me Bag Lady

So for some reason I always travel with a lot of things, items, bags, etc. Therefore, people tend to call me bag lady. I'll honestly admit that they aren't half wrong. You see even though I travel with a lot of bags and things I am always the one person who has the extra pencil or book or paper or hand sanitizer. Whenever someone needs something I usually have it. However, my collection of bags does pose a problem. You see this picture is of my bag rack. I had a decent amount of bags to begin with and then they doubled and then tripled. Ya, I know I like to shop and it might be a problem, but how can you say no to these fabulous bags.
When I hung a bag up one weekend the rack just buckled and the left side just came out

as youi can see in the picture. So I am thinking that the reason that the rack can stay like this is because the right side must exert the same force or more of the lagging or part that is sagging (left part). However, I am curious where the center of gravity is...and I wonder if I am right when I say that the reason for the whole rack ot falling down is because the right side is applying a force that is equal or greater to the one trying to pull the left side down. I am vry curious to find out how this is staying like so and not ripping the other part down with it and also how it still hangs the way it does...Would it still hang if I took the bags on the righ off? or is that part of the weight that's counteractig it or is the only part holding in place is the nail or screw.

Yep even fashion has a little physics within. Who you knew?...Not me :)

Inertia is a COMPLETE RIP OFF!

Today, I had a volleyball tournament and it went quite well with the exception that two of my nails broke. Ya I know this seems like a complete Barbie/girly-girl expression, but I am going to say it anyways. I BROKE TWO NAILS!! The first nail got broken when I went up to block the ball and I just barely clipped it but of course wouldn't you know it I broke the entire nail off. I remember it exactly I came down felt that my nail was kind of sore and thought to myself "wow that kind of hurt, but nah it didn't brake it just sort of bent it". However, to my dismay I looked down and there it WASN'T my nail broke off. I later found it on the floor and threw it on the side. The next nail broke when I blocked another ball. It didn't feel like I broke it but when I looked it chipped half of my left thumb's nail was gone. I was pretty sad. :( Although, it did make me more motivated to get back and play even better. I was also much happier when I realized, hey this can be my physics journal topic.

Inertia today was literally a rip off. You see my nails wanted to stay in the state they were ion which was rest. However, the ball had other plans, it wanted to keep on moving unless it was stopped or some how affected by another source. The nails got consumed by the ball's momentum and need to keep on moving and couldn't resist or withstand the ball's force. Therefore, my nail went with it or got pulled along as well, resulting in it ripping off.

So thank you physics for helping me realize hey "sometimes physics happens" not worry I will recover and definitely fix these babies up before PROM. :)

This is What Happens When You Have TOO Much Time on Your Hands!

One word that describes this interesting physics task from Mr. K is...ridiculous! O boy I thought how is this even possible. But, it took me some time like 5 min. to put it all together and sha-BAm! I got it to work! It was pretty ridiculously cool, wouldn't have experienced if it wasn't for the joys of physics and good old Mr. K!

So here is all the awesome answers: CGizzle is in de midizzle-meaning that where the toothpick and the glass meet or touch each other I believe if you look at the second picture you'll get a much better view. Now, in the first picture you see that I have already lit the toothpick and it has burnt. However, only some of it burnt off. This is so because the rest of the toothpick was excess meaning didn't really need it thus up to the burnt point would show that, that certain point is indeed the CGizzle. But, it also proves that the rest of the toothpick had nothing to do with weighing or counter acting the spoon/fork. The spoon and fork were in fact blancing each other out. This is a good balance because the CG average and the distribution of wieght and the CG is supported. And the CG is staying within the area of support!

Chee! Nice stuff! k peace o ya and thanks to my Mama for taking the photos! :)

Are You Smarter than a Puppy?

So this is a pretty personal journal and that's just a warning for the readers out there, I honestly could care less. Let's set the scene shall we. This morning about 9 o clock I was getting ready for church. I was in my bathroom sitting on my toilet doing my thang, when I hear my puppy, Ka La coming down the hall with his squeaky toy. I thought to myself o great here he comes and here I am stuck on the toilet. My puppy usually comes in the house and sometimes on the rare occasion comes and visits us in the bathroom. So he came in prancing in with his pink squeaky bone. He started to investigate the area,sniffing and licking (I'll leave this part up to the imagination of the person). He then ran out to retrieve more of his toys. I dreaded being tortured and disturbed again but I didn't know how to close my door, I mean it was only opened a jar, really, but there was just no way to close it without getting up and that was clearly not an option. So I thought to myself maybe I can close it with this roll of toilet paper...THEN it came to me. Ka La from a previous visit had forgotten his tennis ball in my bathroom. I reached underneath my green plastic stool, and grabbed the ball. I then held both objects that are relatively the same in mass and I would probably throw them at an equal velocity. I IMMEDIATELY remembered what we had discussed in class and in out test, momentum and impulse. O baby I felt like the SMARTEST person on a toilet in the history of human kind. It was sweet! I could hear Ka La inching in on my door, then bang and boom I threw the tennis ball and the door closed! Victory was mine and all thanks to physics. So I can honestly say that physics is sort of use full in everyday use. ;) The tennis ball has more force because it has enough force to push the door closed and then bounce back towards my sink. Pretty amazing stuff... So next time your in the bathroom and you gotta close the door, use a BALL. So my puppy never got in again because the door was close plus he was scared.

*I am officially smarter than a puppy! YES R u?

Viva Physics in Las Vegas!

So over the long no homework weekend, I went to the fabulous city of Las Vegas. It was off the hook crazy. It had my top four favorite things; shopping, volleyball, eating, and physics o wait did I say physics, I meant hotties and friends. Nah, I am just joking physics is definitely on my list. Maybe like a hundred or two-hundred it's there don't worry Mr. Kohara, it's there.

Okay so in Vegas there literally is SO much physic. However, this journal is only about one cool and very interesting invention. It is about the dun-dun-dun-dun (drum roll) the moving sidewalk. It saves a lot of time and helps travelers of all ages. However, there are rules...Well may be only two rules on one side you must only walk and on the other you must only stand. It's a pretty neat-o thang.

Now, here comes the part Mr.Kohara will get all hyphy about, it involves some mean physics action! It's involves Newton's First Law of Motion. I know my other journal was about this law too but honestly who doesn't love Newton and his bad a** laws. Okay so this is what goes down. When you jump on this bad boy your body is able to stand still and it doesn't want to move right because it wants to stay at rest because one we're so flip'n lazy and two that's what Newton's law states. At the end of the ride you must step off or else you'll become chopped up by the razor things at the end or eat it on the floor. But, you see that again is physics once we keep going we want to continue moving in that direction at the same speed. The best part is when you do get off, you feel this push like your whole body is going forward yet when your foot touches the ground only some of you keeps going. I figured out that our body wants to keep up with that same speed but we can't so when we take that first initial step our body is slowed down to what our body's state was at and not the force of the moving side walk. Totally sweet and gnarly right?

Another amazing thing that I realized is that if you decide to walk on the moving side walk it speeds up your step. It's not pulling against you but rather pulling with you or even faster so that for every step you regularly take you almost triple that amount on the moving sidewalk.

SO HERE'S TO YOU MOVING SIDEWALK, THANKS FOR GETTING US MOVING! LOL :)

Shout out to D-rock in da pic and Nina Sky+fam

Side Notes

*Vegas was a top time love my v-ball ohana!

* o YA WHAT GOES ON IN VEGAS DOESN'T REALLY STAY IN VEGAS-BEAWARE

*GREAT JOB TO ALL DA B-BALLERS DIS WEEK :) NUMBER ONE IN OUR HEARTS ALWAYS

Just Jokes

I FOUND MY VIDEOs!

Boys Soccer Number 1 in Our HEARTS!

On Friday I was lucky enough to make part of the soccer game. Boy, was it a game. I never imagened I could be so entertained. There was so many interesting things going on. Guys were pushing other guys, yellow cards were being handed out like they were going out of style. The crowd was getting intense too, especially if you were sitting where I was, we had some very lovely salty Punahou soccer boys egging us on. But, we just let them look like the donkeys that they are. Yeah Iolani we got class! But that's besides the point. I found some pretty decent physics action going on. My buddy Newton stated in his first law of motion, inertia or what we disscussed in class to be laziness.
In soccer the ball displays this rule. The ball doesn't want to move, it wants to stay at rest. However, when the boys kick the ball they are forcing the ball to move this could be thought of as net force. When the ball is in motion it will continue want to continue to move in motion however the grass creates friction which slows it down possibly coming to a stop. The ball would also stop if the boys stopped it with their foot. It's all about the movement. Isn't that amazing. I think it's pretty outstanding. The video that I took and I hope it uploads ok, is off the Iolani goal kicking the ball taking it out of its state of rest and making it move. Hope you all enjoy it as much as we did.

*Thanks boys for making it an awesome season* We are very proud of all of you and you all are cahmps in our hearts!* :)