O my! Another lazy Sunday has come and gone in a flash. Several days after lamenting the loss of not achieving NASAL immortality (
thee Great Clay Ozaki-Train has constantly reminded me of this), it seems as if the world continues to punish me as a mortal. I woke up early today, to hopefully watch the Patriots explosive offensive obliterate the Dolphins, only to find Time-Warner Cable was down in my neighborhood until noon! NO THE MADNESS (like in Sparta!)! Instead, my mother brought out the bucket and told me to clean and wax the kitchen floor till it "sparkled". OH MY! Several painstaking minutes after I completed the task, I put my dogs in the kitchen for their meal. They exuberantly chased each other around, only to find that the greatly reduced friction of the floor (frictionless I'd say, since I did such a good job) caused them to be unable to stop themselves. After a couple of LOLs and ROFLs, I had that
weekly AP physics B epiphany from the
high holy DOC above!
My dogs were clearly showing examples of the conservation of momentum. In one instance, I was enticing Joey (the brown one) with a carrot.

Jealous of his attention Missy (the white one) took charge at Joey (who was at rest). Because Missy is significantly heavier (due to over feeding and lack of exercise), her mass and velocity caused Joey to slide across the floor after the collision while Missy continued to slide in the same direction. WOW! Angry, and clearly antagonized, Joey took charge back and in a head on collision, Joey and Missy jousted with each other. Again because of the frictionless floor due to my impeccable floor work), after the collision, Missy and Joey headed opposite directions.

The bright light shown upon me: Clearly the
HIGH HOLY DOC! above was trying to send me a message. When dogs collide with each other in contention for delicious carrots, momentum is conserved. Another proof that the momentum is theoretically conserved in both elastic and inelastic collisions. AHA! Lesson of the day: Clean the kitchen floors weekly for LOLs and ROFLs. Doc if you're reading this, I still formally challenge you to a game of Billiards (interactive physics style). DOC IT UP!

^AHH ATTACK OF THE JOEY (he's hungry!) RAWR!
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