Kinematics of Grasshopper Hops - Smarter Every Day 102
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[Smarter Every Day theme music] Hey it's me Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. Today I'm at the Tambopada Research Center, it's run by Rainforest Expeditions, and we're gonna calculate the force that a grasshopper uses to jump with. First thing we're gonna do is we're going to weigh the grasshopper. So this envelope, we're gonna zero our scale, so.. and then put the grasshopper in the envelope, so you know force = mass x acceleration so we are going to figure out the mass of the grasshopper and we're gonna use this high speed camera to calculate the acceleration of the grasshopper. So how much does our... wait we weren't, yeah we were... 0.1 gram? That sound right, Mr entomologist? - Sounds about right. - Alright. Now we gotta meas...
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[Smarter Every Day theme music] Hey it's me Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. Today I'm at the Tambopada Research Center, it's run by Rainforest Expeditions, and we're gonna calculate the force that a grasshopper uses to jump with. First thing we're gonna do is we're going to weigh the grasshopper. So this envelope, we're gonna zero our scale, so.. and then put the grasshopper in the envelope, so you know force = mass x acceleration so we are going to figure out the mass of the grasshopper and we're gonna use this high speed camera to calculate the acceleration of the grasshopper. So how much does our... wait we weren't, yeah we were... 0.1 gram? That sound right, Mr entomologist? - Sounds about right. - Alright. Now we gotta meas...
