{"id":9368,"date":"2014-05-09T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T13:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9368"},"modified":"2014-05-09T09:51:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T13:51:32","slug":"what-a-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/09\/what-a-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, the circus came to town, and Grandma and Grandpa came up to help us take the kids. We took SteelyKid a couple of years ago, and figured The Pip was old enough to go this time, too. Having bought tickets a couple of years ago, I got sent a pre-sale offer link, and followed that to get tickets in the front center section. <\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t realize was that these put us in the &#8220;Circus Celebrity&#8221; section&#8211; when the show started, they came and gave us these ribbon things to wear, and a bit before the intermission some of the performers came over to our section, and led us out to the floor, where we rode around in a train of cars as part of one of the musical numbers, and chatted with some of the clowns, as you can see from the &#8220;featured image&#8221; above.<\/p>\n<p>This also meant we were on the floor for this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBZhXKbdr2U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s unquestionably some physics to this, and I had vaguely meant to crank the video into Tracker and try to determine the launch speed, and compare to the stats in the program. I&#8217;ve been crazy busy this week, though, and today&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmetz.union.edu\/\">Steinmetz Symposium<\/a> with student research presentations all day, so I don&#8217;t have time.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll make this a homework problem: see if you can use this crappy cell-phone video to determine how fast she was moving when she was launched. Send your answers to Rhett for grading, and I&#8217;ll see you on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, the circus came to town, and Grandma and Grandpa came up to help us take the kids. We took SteelyKid a couple of years ago, and figured The Pip was old enough to go this time, too. Having bought tickets a couple of years ago, I got sent a pre-sale offer link, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/09\/what-a-circus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a Circus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[663,2,7,50,37,3,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday","category-personal","category-physics","category-pictures","category-pop_culture","category-steelykid","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368","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=9368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}