Is A Person Jumping On A Trampoline An Oscillator. Nasa has actually found jumping on a trampoline for 10 minutes has a more positive effect on your health and fitness than running for half an hour. If you wanted to increase the period of a pendulum how would you change its length.
Looses contact with it the jump phase which is actually a free fall should be described with a quadratic function and the bounce phase is a cosine like linear oscillator s half period. Believe it or not bouncing on a trampoline is a classic energy conservation example and it shows how energy goes from potential into kinetic. The difference between jumping on the ground and jumping on a trampoline is that you dont lose your energy when you fall back on a trampoline.
Trampoline jumping isn t appropriate for people of every age.
Chapter 18 review reviewing concepts section 18 1 1. Reinforcing learning material with movement may help that knowledge stick especially when paired with games like simon says or chalk drawings on the mat. Imvho when a person jumps on the trampoline i e. And not only that but trampolines actually work through reverse transformation.
