Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Soccer on the Moon

If I were going to play soccer on the moon, it would be very different then on the earth, because instead of a gravitational pull of 9.8 m/s 2, there is a 1.6 m/s 2 gravitational pull. It would great to be the goalie, because you could block almost every goal, because you could jump really far and high, so you could get the ball. But, you couldn't do a drop kick, because when you dropped the ball to kick it, it would sort of just float around the spot that you dropped it. Running would be faster, but it would take you longer to get back onto the ground after jumping up into the air. Because of Newtons' 3rd law, you might slightly bounce back after kicking the ball, but not that much, because your mass wouldn't change, and the ball still has less mass then you.

2 comments:

Cheese said...

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Sweet Chops!

~Peace

Mary Margaret said...

Nice job with this post. I agree, goalie would be a good position to have on Team Moon.