You better shut your mouth... or I'll BUREKU your face! HAHAHA!!! Today I learned so much about solving physics equations that give you less information so you have to use more logic! Even though it was quite a challenge, it made me feel smart using such big numbers and complicated ideas. The "Bureku" technique is all about breaking vectors into equal parts so you can create variated right triangles based off of something like a single angle or velocity. When you form the right triangles you can use "SOHCAHTOA" (sine, cosine, and tangent trigonometry functions) to solve for legs of the right triangle you formed and give you velocities of the x and y axes. From there, the rest is history. I'm really enjoying discovering all the new ways to solve problems that I'd normally think were impossible.
An excellent application of this is the "Donkey Lab" that we did today in which we used our knowledge of physics to determine where a launched ball would land from scratch. This especially impacted me because using our knowledge of science and hard work, we created something real, tangible, and meaningful that went beyond just equations on paper. It was something that actually existed, actually mattered, I mean using that same science we could figure out where to drop a bomb or something (not the best example but... hey)! I was impressed and surprised not only that physics held such valid world application, but that we could really see how that application was real and we could make it happen on our own!
very clever picture, josh. and i like how you added bureku!
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