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Ice Skating is something I love doing even though I'm terrible at it. I can barely go straight and can NOT stop to save my life. My friends and I all went over break and it was so much fun. We did different things so in the end we picked how we wanted to apply it to physics.


When we got there, we realized that no one could skate in a perfect circle. 

Here is a video of Courtney attempting to do it: 


We then decided to ask this boy who looked like he knew what he was doing. I'm assuming he played hockey. 




Here  is what I did to find the centripetal acceleration: 

He circled around the bottom left circle which has a radius of 4.572m which I got from converting 15ft into m.

1 rev took 7 seconds which I found from watching the video and calculating how long it took to make a complete circle. 

V= 2π r / 7 

V =(  2π (4.572) ) / 7 

V = 4.104


ac = v^2 / r 

ac = (4.104^2) / (4.572) 

ac = 3.68


Here are some videos from that day: 





Thanks to Julia Pimentel, Alyssa Pappas, Nathan Thimas, Yvonne Zeng, Courtney Marcos, Ryan Clary, and that random kid for being part of this!! 







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