Thursday, August 11, 2016

Welcome Class of 2017

Welcome NWS Class of 2017!
There was some great physics in the news this summer:

Juno spacecraft arrived at planet Jupiter to collect data on solar system's largest gaseous planet.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/images/index.html


Usain Bolt won 3 gold medals in the Rio Olympics. How does he achieve such tremendous velocity and acceleration, and still smile at the end of a race?

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160817212018-01-rio-olympics-bolt-de-grasse-smile-0817-super-169.jpg


The first off-shore wind farm in the US is currently under construction off the coast of Rhode Island.

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20160904/at-nations-first-offshore-wind-farm-in-ri-its-almost-harvest-time--video


I'm looking forward to learning about the physics behind some of these topics with the class of 2017! See you soon.