blog #7

With the stomach flu for the first week of school, i knew it wasn't going to be fun. I skipped monday, and tried to come to school all week until friday i couldn't take it and was home again ill. It not really that fun having nothing to do, as i stared at the clock for the majority of the time. but as the second hand kept going around the clock, it reminded me of rotational dynamics. theres probably alot of gears in the clock rotating the hands, but i ignored that. I just imagined that if i was a little man and i had to move the second-hand, i would choose to push it way at the end, the farthest from the middle (fulcrum) becuase that is where i have to apply the least amount of force and still have a high enough torque to rotate it. torque equals force times lever arm length, so i would be correct. Jeez, now i see physics everywhere. its kinda creepy.