The Physics of Sports
My group mates and I had made a video focusing on the physics of how to kick a penalty shot in soccer. We began by introducing ourselves and got straight into the video.
In the second scene, Nick is giving us information on what the best direction to kick the ball in is. You should kick it in the top left hand corner, since most goalies are right handed, they would have a tougher time reaching to block the ball. Adam then begins to tell us what the best way to kick the ball is to take short strides towards the ball and kick the ball with the part of your shoe where the laces are located to get a powerful kick. Nihal then gets us into the physics of kicking the penalty shot. We realized that Nicks kick could generate enough to power a 10 watt CFL light bulb for 24 minutes. I continue by giving the optimal kicking angle was for getting the ball into the top left corner of the goal. We ended up with a 12-degree kick. Adam finishes off the video by telling us how to position our foot when we are about to kick and that you should try and kick the ball at a velocity of around 35mph. Or with about 1005N of force. These stats are relevant when you have a ball with the mass of about 0.4kg.
In the second scene, Nick is giving us information on what the best direction to kick the ball in is. You should kick it in the top left hand corner, since most goalies are right handed, they would have a tougher time reaching to block the ball. Adam then begins to tell us what the best way to kick the ball is to take short strides towards the ball and kick the ball with the part of your shoe where the laces are located to get a powerful kick. Nihal then gets us into the physics of kicking the penalty shot. We realized that Nicks kick could generate enough to power a 10 watt CFL light bulb for 24 minutes. I continue by giving the optimal kicking angle was for getting the ball into the top left corner of the goal. We ended up with a 12-degree kick. Adam finishes off the video by telling us how to position our foot when we are about to kick and that you should try and kick the ball at a velocity of around 35mph. Or with about 1005N of force. These stats are relevant when you have a ball with the mass of about 0.4kg.
If I were to change anything about the video, and our project in general, I would make sure that next time, we have a complete and organized script and would put more effort into the voiceovers. We had some issues transferring the audio from a website we were using online to our video file. Our script on the other hand, was all right, but it was a little vague on what we were to say. We should also set up a schedule next time because the times, we were productive and getting things done was a little infrequent. Another issue I noticed was that the audio in some parts was a bit louder than the audio in other parts, so we should work harder next time on equalizing that audio. One thing I learned about myself was that I'm can take quite a hefty challenge with little bit of ease. I took on the challenge of editing the whole video, which took a lot more time and effort than it seems. Some things I learned about my teammates too was that they were great to work with and were quite cooperative when it came to new ideas, they also were a great help during points in the project where it got stressful, for example, the editing of the video was stressful.