These pictures are from the rehersals of out LCC performance. The backdrop is a white drape of fabric but it appears to be different colors depending on the lighting. The last picture is shot with only white light directed at the stage. The first picture has a magenta background. This is made by covering a white light with a red and blue filter and shinning it at the stage. The primary colors fliter our the green light and the magenta is projected. The second picture is more purple which means that it was a stronger blue filter than the magenta filter. These colors are creawted by color by subtraction. The backgrounds reallly ad the finishing touch to our performances. Now i now how we get so many different shades of lighting!

Colorful Team!

This is a picture of the senior dance team and one of the crazy costumes. There are many shades of colors all made from the primary colors red, green, blue. The white light shines on the clothes and reflect the colors. My shirt is green because the green color is reflected to your eye. The yellow tights are made by a reflection of red and green. These combines colors are sensed by the cones in your eye as yellow even though the red and green cones are stimulated. My shorts are black because none of the colors are reflected to the eye. The white of Amber's tights (next to me) are made up of all of the colors from the white light. These colors show up in the gym like this, but on stage lighting it changes the colors. We couldn't wear these at the LCC show because the red lights for the stage lighting on this dance would change the colors. The red light on the green shirt would send only red light and the green subtracts red so it would appear black. Now i understand why stage lighting is so important!!

This is my friend and me at Doris Dukes after jumping off of the rock wall. The vibrations were sent through the water from the impact of our landing. The vibrations created waves as the energy travels through the water. The molecules do not actually move forward but merely move up and down. The amplitude can be measured by finding the displacement from the equilibrium position. The frequency is the number of vibrations per sec. We could have increased the amplitude and frequency by making a larger splash to cover more surface area. The same method of measurement is used to find the wave height on our shores.

Physics at my house!

Disney Physics!

This picture is of my cousin Rhonda, my mom and I in the log of Splash Mountain. I don't know if this is directly related to magnetizm but i know that many rides run on magnetic tracks. They are not quite levetation tracks though. I thought that the tracks could be magnetic because there are no chains on the tracks, only a middle rail. If they used magnets to keep it on track, then the cars (or logs) would stay on track and keep moving by generating its own electricity. Splash Mountain could generate its own electricity with the waterfall because the kinetic energy can be converted to electric energy by a generator.

This is a picture of my friend Courtney and I taking pictures of ourselves as seen on tv!!! ok yea so its a camera hooked up to the Tv but its still pretty cool. The tv is connected to the power outlet in the wall with has a voltage of either 120 V or 0V at any moment. The current flows through the complete circuit starting from the 120 V outlet to the tv where the charge is used and the V is returned to zero until the new electrons from the outlet are supplied. Because the outlet is 120 the charge of the electrons will be 120. The tv also has some resistance so that the real charge used will not be the full 120. THe more resistant the circuit the smaller the current. YAY we are on tv :0

This is Angelica and me sitting on a floaty raft in the pool. We were being stupid and trying to push ourselves across the pool with just our legs while balancing on it. As we push against the water with our legs, the water pushes back, propelling us forward. We must keep the mass and distance from the center of each person equal so that we won't tip over. I am assuming that we will learn why the reflection of the water is blue and other aspects of this picture soon!!

This is a picture of Laurel, Courtney, and I messing around at our friend's seventeenth bday party. We are all in different positions and balancing on one foot. This requires our center of gravity to be directly underneath us because if it is outside of the area below us, we would fall over. The more unequally distributed your mass is, the easier it is balance. Therefore the move that courtney is doing moves her CM further away from her leg on the ground. Also, we push against the ground as the ground pushes us back. This is the law of equal and opposite force. If you are actually doing these positions you would realize that you must continually push and grip your toes onto the ground.