Here we go: So once again, I am reverting back to my old habits. It is now 11 o'clock and I am just starting my physics journal. Stupid YouTube. Anyway, I'm going to try to keep the extraneous comments and details to a minimum this time. It was kind of embarrassing to see how much rambling I did in the last journal. Although, I'm still pissed that Keith Jardine lost to stupid Rampage Jackson. This weekend was a good weekend, but there isn't really that much to share this time. Friday was my sister's birthday so we went to the Cheesecake Factory. My favorite, Yay! I had the Steak Diane and Chicken Madeira combo and for dessert, the Dulce de Leche cheese cake. I was kind of pissed because they discontinued the Tres Leches. That one was pretty yummy. I think I've tried over half of the cheesecakes on the menu so far. My favorite is either the Dutch Apple Caramel Streusel or the Chocolate Tuxedo Cream. Oh so good. The secret to eating cheesecake is to use half bites. You take a piece of cheesecake on your fork, but you only put half of it in your mouth. This helps you savor the cheesecake. If anyone wants the cheesecake eating lesson, I'll be happy to help. Believe me that bugga will explode in your mouth. Yikes I'm getting off topic. I'll talk about the physics now.
So as you can see, the theme of my journal is pro wrestling. I wanted to do it about lacrosse, but the pictures I ordered come in the mail. I tried to copy and paste but it didn't work. Actually I had a very lacrossey weekend. Friday after dinner we had a lacrosse sleepover at Matt's house that carried into Saturday, and Sunday we had a game. We beat Mililani 5-1 by the way. I'm pretty happy. I got to smash some people. The thing that annoyed me though was that this ass clown on the other team thought he was the flipping show because he knocked up the smallest guy on our team. He thought it was the coolest thing that he got to sit in the penalty box for being a douche bag. The worst thing was that we couldn't get our retribution because he didn't play the rest of the game. People like that piss me off. Gosh! I went on another tangent. Dang!
So back to the videos. We filmed these videos over the course of two days across the street at club 100. We had wrestling practice there because Keiko was training for nationals. This was supposed to be an audition video for the variety show. I compiled the clips into an actual wrestling match. I'll try to upload it on to this journal at the end. Hopefully it'll work. So the video is of me and Nik Streng wrestling. In this scene Nik starts off with a back suplex. He transitions to a European uppercut and finishes with a super kick. The second video is Truong doing the Angle slam on Nik Streng aka Nik Snitsky. Yeah, that one is cool! The third video is Truong doing a German Suplex on Nik the Snitsky. Its pretty funny when Truong beats the crap out of Nik. The last video is Nik doing the Batista Bomb on me and failing. He kinda just dropped me. That hurt like hell. After that bedlam ensues.
Now as you can see, Pro wrestling is all about bodies in motion. When ever you have this much lifting, slamming, and falling physics must be involved. The video that I'm going to analyze is video three, the German suplex. That one is the coolest. So there is a lot going on here. Shucks, kinematics were from the first semester. I'm going to have to think nice and hard about what is going on. The first thing that you notice in the video is that Nik is big and Truong is not. That sucks for Truong. The first thing that anyone thinks of when they talk about physics is Newton's laws. This applies in our previously stated situation. You see Newton's first law states that an object at rest stays at rest until a net force acts upon it. This sucks for Truong because he is the one who has to supply that force. This especially sucks because Nik is so big. He has a lot of inertia or mass. Mass determines how much an object will resist a change in velocity. Because Nik is so big, he resists Truongs attempts to fly him into the mat. Actually because Truong is trying to induce an angular acceleration on Nik, the force is a torque. Because its a torque we can say that Nik has a very large moment of inertia, but we'll get into that later. The second thing I wanted to say is about Newton's third law: To any action there is always an equal and opposite reaction. Look at the end of the video. Notice how Nik just seems to bounce off of the mat. This is because when he comes crashing down on and hits the mat, the mat hits him back. Fascinating.
Okay so now to talk about torque. This will definitely not be a stroll in the park. Um so this is hard to explain because Truong is throwing Nik. It isn't as simple as pulling with a rope or something. Torque is a force that causes rotation. In the video we can clearly see that Nik's body goes flying in a uniform circular motion. So in this situation it is hard because the lever arm is not clearly defined. Lets arbitrarily say that he is throwing Nik's torso and that the head and neck act as the lever arm. This makes sense because Nik's body is pivoting around his head, which Truong holds onto the whole time. Again, this is very hard for Truong because of Nik's very high moment of inertia. Moment of inertia is a function of the lever arm squared times the object's mass. Nik is very heavy and the lever arm is short. This shows you just how strong the Vu is. Wow.
Lastly, I'd just like to point out one more thing. I noticed that Nik is leaning way forward before Truong throws him. His big fat head is way over his legs. In physics language we can say that Nik's center of mass is over his support base. Nik has no defense against Truong's suplex. If Truong wasn't there, Nik would probably fall on his face. Okay too much physics. I'm tired. I just gotta say one more thing though. After actually doing these moves and trying to make a video, you gain a lot more respect for these WWE wrestlers. This stuff is sore and it is super hard to do right. On top of that, these guys have to make everything interesting and believable. Doing these moves with a straight face proved to be impossible for us. So below is the final product. I really hope you like it. Okay, enjoy. Peace.