The Physics of the Hyperloop

 Have you ever been on a flight or on the train wondering why it was taking so long? Have you ever wanted to see your family all the way across the country but you can't because of the price? Well the Hyperloop can change your travel plans completely. The Hyperloop is one of the greatest ideas ever forming into a creation in front of our eyes. Combining speed and safety, the Hyperloop is a capsule that is suspended in the air inside of a tube, meaning it has no friction and uses purely air pressure making it go forward. Created by Elon Musk in great detail, the Hyperloop should have the potential to travel at speeds up to 755 mph, which is faster then most commercial airplanes. This invention will also be cost effective only projected to cost 6 billion dollars to make nationwide. The Hyperloop is projected to be fully completed by 2020. Being able to travel through the biggest cities around the nation, the Hyperloop will be the best mode of travel yet. 

My project was based off the physics of figure skating. Who ever knew figure skating included so many different laws! Newton's three laws play a huge role in the figure skating. They create the ability for the skater to be able to glide over the ice and preform lots of different cool tricks. Newton's first law is the reason we are able to glide over the ice for a period of time and eventually come to a stop. Newton's second law plays a role in why acceleration occurs when a force acts on the mass. So for example someone weighing less would have more of an ability to bring themselves into the air to preform a trick rather than someone who weighs more. Newton's third law describes why the skater can jump or glide on the ice depending on the force they have produced. In my presentation I included pictures of how the process of spinning on the ice works. As the skater gets ready to preform a spin, she reaches her arms out for balance and lifts up one leg. The reason for extending her arms is because it will cause her to spin slower due to the pass she is putting outwards. However when the skater pulls in her legs and arm closer to her body she will begin to spin faster creating a constant momentum. Not only did doing this project inform me on the how physics is involved in figure skating but it also helped me become a better skater. Knowing how and why the tricks worked a certain way and how force can be a huge impact has really helped me preform better and know how to fix problems that were occurring before! Hope you all enjoyed reading this.