The human body is a major aspect to what is classified as physics. In everyday life humans go about their day leaping and jumping and as a dancer, it is considered our second nature to do these things. Although, most times we don’t realize that physics plays a major role to how high or far we can do a jeté or jump. Now being able to study the relationships through physics, I’ve been paying closer attention to what the factors are in executing a perfect jump. Through the pendulum lab, I’ve learned that a jump has characteristics of a parabola or a quadratic relationship graph. As showed in the video of a friend, the muscles in the legs pushes off of the ground and the swinging momentum of the arms propels the dancer in the air till she reaches her maximum high before she starts to descend from her jump.
Haha i wish the video was longer. Good connection to physics (:
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