{"id":8752,"date":"2017-12-22T12:57:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2018-08-06T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:45:35","slug":"stopping-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/2017\/12\/stopping-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Newton\u2019s First Law states an object in motion will stay in motion unless a force acts upon it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Let\u2019s explore how this affects our every day lives!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Find a line on the floor (or mark one with floor safe tape).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>To attempt this experiment, move back a few paces from the line. Then, move quickly towards the tape line and try to stop <i>on<\/i> the line. Can you do it? What happens to your body when you try to stop your forward momentum? Your feet will stop (with some help from friction from the floor) but your upper body has no external force acting upon it.\u00a0 Without a force to change your motion, you will continue to move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Can you figure out why seat belts are so important?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you are moving forward in a car and the car stops suddenly, you are still moving forward unless a force stops you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What could that force be?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hopefully it\u2019s your seat belt!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Can you design a seat belt for a toy car that will keep an object safe?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s explore Newton&#8217;s First Law!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nb-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8753,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions\/8753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}