Sunday, November 16, 2014

How Tides Work


Here I have found a video/resource to explain tides in an animated way.
Tides happen everyday on Earth. We experience 4 tides a day, 2 high and 2 low. Each high and low tide are 6 hours apart from each other, so that means each high tide is 12 hours apart, same for low tides. What causes these tides is the force of pull from the moon. The moon pulls the water and Earth towards it, but the Earth fights back, kind of like tug of war. Since the Earth pulls back to stay in its orbital, it causes the tide bulge, which is the oval water shape in the video. If the moon pulls the water closest to it/ the side of Earth facing it with let's say 5N, then the other water side is being pulled with -5N because of this tug of war. Negative is a force in the other direction. This means that if theres a high or low tide on one side of the earth, then it's the same on the opposite side.
Tides are caused by the phases of the moon and sun. When the sun and moon line up with he earth in somewhat a straight line, those are called spring tides, when the tides are higher then usual. when the moon is on one side of the earth and the sun is on the other side, 90 degrees, this forms neap tides.

http://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Grand-Cayman-Cayman-Islands/tides/latest
Here are the tides of the Cayman Islands, the main island, Grand Cayman. Grand Cayman experienced high tide, going down to low tide when I wrote this. These tides/this beach is going to experience spring tides in the next few days, since it's going to be a new moon. So they are getting ready for those high and low tides.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Newton's 3rd Law

In this video, this guy explains Newton's third law. This 3rd law is every object that has an action also has a reaction. This means if the earth pulls me, I pull the earth too. Another example is an apple in my hand. I push the apple up and it pushes my hand down.
This video the guy explain more examples of how it's all connected. It's a really great video to go by and helps if you ever need help in this area of Physics. He explains the law, shows examples of most-all action and reaction pairs, with their vectors. Vectors are the arrows you see in the examples that show which way or how much of the force is happening in a certain direction. If you need more help with the 3rd law just watch this video!