{"id":110,"date":"2008-06-11T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprendemos.yuriar.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-06-11T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T20:53:07","slug":"ill-have-the-steak-and-a-side-of-physics-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2008\/06\/11\/ill-have-the-steak-and-a-side-of-physics-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll have the steak, and a side of Physics.  Thank you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, a conversation about roller coasters at the dinner table, turned into a 20 minute Physics lesson.<\/p>\n<p>GeekBoy started it by talking about the rollercoaster he wants to build when he grows up.  I told him he&#8217;d better learn his math and &#8220;Physics.&#8221;  When the Geek asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; it was the perfect springboard into a lesson on the forces of push, pull, gravity, and friction, along with the the first law of physics, <em>An object at rest tend to stay at rest, an object in motion tends to stay in motion.<\/em> (Yes, I know that&#8217;s not the complete law, but hello!!!  he&#8217;s 7!  lets work on the basics and then get to the technicalities.)<\/p>\n<p>We even experimented with a notebook (inclined plane) and a car, to illustrate the amount of force needed to get the car up the hill.  The best one was &#8220;too much force&#8221; that sent the car flying across the Kitchen.  Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: The first time the car rolled down the notebook instead of up, Before I mentioned anything else, I asked, &#8220;Why? Why did it go down instead of up?&#8221;  GeekBoy said, &#8220;Gravity.  Gravity pulled it down.&#8221; Awesome.\u00a0 He knew all about Gravity and what it does thanks to watching the docu-drama From the Earth to the Moon.\u00a0 Thank you Tom Hanks.\u00a0 Please make more compelling docu-dramas.\u00a0 The conversations they spur are amazing, and the things the kids pick up are just incredible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, a conversation about roller coasters at the dinner table, turned into a 20 minute Physics lesson. GeekBoy started it by talking about the rollercoaster he wants to build &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capt740","category-classes","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}