Friday, September 28, 2012

Video 1: Angry Birds in Space

As Newton has discovered, gravity is a pretty interesting thing... It is what keeps us here on earth. It is also responsible for creating what we call a trajectory (the curve a ball follows when it is thrown horizontally). You have also seen this when you play your Angry Birds game. What happens when we don't have gravity? In this video, astronaut Don Pettit describes what happens to the trajectory of an object (an Angry Bird) in space. 


Llewellyn, A. (2012, March 8). Angry birds in space [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://open.nasa.gov/ 
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  1. UnknownOctober 29, 2012 at 2:24 PM

    This video made me a bit curious about physics - which is good. It also made me curious about the Angry Birds in Space game. I appreciate that the astronauts thought about doing a video like this for young people. I think students may actually pay more attention to this science lesson when it is connected to the game because they may actually apply some of the ideas - or at least they would try. (I would try.) If you could show a demonstration in class of how applying the physics' principles actually raise scores, that would be really cool and memorable.

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