These are pictures from New Years Eve. A lot of projectiles were involved...the ground bloomers we were all throwing in the air, the sparks from the fireworks, and the bottle rockets my cousins were shooting out of a pipe. In the second picture, although it looks like we're all about to fall, everyone was able to balance because our CM's were all supported. By leaning on each other, we were all able to widen our support areas, which helped us to stay balanced.

This is during Christmas break on my family's annual gingerbread-house-building day. So what does gingerbread have to do with physics? In class we learned that "all things are attracted to one another". Due to gravitational force, everyone's roofs kept sliding apart (despite the super sticky frosting we used). Because of physics, I now know that the same gravitational force that pulled the gingerbread down is also the same force that pulls the moon towards earth...Wow...Anways, all the candy we loaded on the roofs also exerted downward forces on the gingerbread houses and the gingerbread houses exerted upward forces on the candy. Everybody finally got their roofs to stick, and I have to say, they ended up looking pretty impressive =)