The physics behind a gymnastics leap
An infographic that uses physics to explain why a gymnastics leap looks impossible, and isn’t.
Fill in the spaces and watch it change
Create an infographic as a web page that explains the physics of a double backflip on the floor in artistic gymnastics. Use a schematic stick-figure drawing (never a real person) in four phases: run-up, takeoff, flight and landing. In each phase, one physics idea explained in one sentence: impulse, conservation of angular momentum (why spinning tucked is faster) and center of mass. At the end, a “Read more” box about Simone Biles as an athlete who has taken this kind of element to its limit, with a note to look up her career on the international federation’s site. Audience: someone studying physics in 11th grade.
4 fields are missing: they will be copied with the examples. The examples are fine to start with, but your own details are what make the piece yours.
Where it is made: An assistant that generates web pages, so the infographic’s text comes out clean and editable, the one your Learning Facilitator set up for the Unit.
- Check every physics idea against your textbook or with your science Learning Facilitator.
- Test angular momentum yourself on a swivel chair with your arms open and then closed, and add what you felt.
- Swap the element for one from another sport: a dive, a pole vault, a volleyball spike.
- C1: the physics is correct and in words a 10th grader understands.
- C2: the drawing is a schematic figure, not a real person.
And at the end: did the prompt get better, or did the question?
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