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Diving - 3 meter springboard

The divers are jumping on a 3 meter diving board. The mass and force the diver puts on the springboard helps to increase the height the diver gets into the air. The more force they put on the springboard, the more speed they will generate going into the air. Gravity effects how fast they go down into the water.

Categories: Force - Force is a big part in diving. More force they put in the spring board, the higher they will go up. F= mass( gravity) - Mass is also important. If you are heavy, you can easily bend the springboard but you won't be able to get as much height. If you're light, its harder to bend the springboard but if you can bend it as much as the heavy person, then you will go sky high into the air.

Newton's third law - Almost all of a diver’s work is done on the diving board. By putting energy into the board, a diver harness the “equal and opposite” Newton's Third Law of Motion, with that energy eventually being transferred back into projecting the diver up and forward away from the diving board.

speed/rotation - Once you launch into the air, you generate speed and the more speed you generate, the higher you go into the air. Also with the spinning and flipping, the faster and tighter you tuck, the faster you will flip; for twisting, the tighter you squeeze your body together in a layout position and twist your chest with your arms close to your body, the faster you will twist.

Source: Serway, Raymond A, and Jerry S Faughn. //Holt Physics //Ed. Mark Grayson. Austin, Texas: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 2002. Print.

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