{"id":10181,"date":"2015-09-20T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10181"},"modified":"2015-09-20T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T01:34:10","slug":"020366-scratch-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/20\/020366-scratch-work\/","title":{"rendered":"020\/366: Scratch Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a little bit of time today to play with the new lens, which included a couple of nice shots of the kids. I&#8217;m trying not to have this be &#8220;photo of the kids of the day,&#8221; though, so here&#8217;s a different shot making use of the limited depth of field of the f\/2.8 lens:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10182\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/09\/sm_calculations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/09\/sm_calculations.jpg\" alt=\"Scratch paper with calculations for a football physics post at Forbes.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sm_calculations.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sm_calculations-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scratch paper with calculations for a football physics post at Forbes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s the half-sheet (it&#8217;s the back of a draft of a book proposal, if you must know) of projectile motion calculations that I scribbled down while writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2015\/09\/20\/football-physics-nobody-catches-the-ball-at-its-highest-point\/\">this Forbes post about the dumb football commentary &#8220;he caught the ball at its highest point&#8221;<\/a>. Which is how I distracted myself from my Giants losing another game that they really should&#8217;ve won.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I really do print out drafts of things when I need to proofread them. And I really do work out calculations with pen and paper first. In both cases, it&#8217;s how I learned, and still the process I&#8217;m most comfortable with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a little bit of time today to play with the new lens, which included a couple of nice shots of the kids. I&#8217;m trying not to have this be &#8220;photo of the kids of the day,&#8221; though, so here&#8217;s a different shot making use of the limited depth of field of the f\/2.8&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/20\/020366-scratch-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">020\/366: Scratch Work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,663,7,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-everyday","category-physics","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}