I can't believe my phone snapped in half

Hello everyone. How was the weekend? Saturday was pretty nuts with the tsunami and all. Even though it was pretty anticlimactic, it was good that nothing came so no one got hurt. I gotta admit though that it was pretty much a waste of time staring at the tv at home waiting for something to happen. What made me laugh was watching the guy that went out surfing when the tsunami was supposed to hit. He's my hero. Other than that, I went to watch the musical on saturday night, and it was pretty good. And also, my phone broke in half because my brother sat on it. This is an example of a force of mg and some torque exerted on the phone to make it break.



Anyway, on saturday, I actually made some time to practice my violin and playing it reminded me of many physics concepts. First of all, it reminded me of friction because without the use of rosin to make the bow stick to the strings, the quality of sound would be horrible. The rosin allows the bowhairs to create friction and extract a rich sound from thing strings. In addition, this reminded me of the idea that if you half the length of the string, it creates a note an octave higher since it doubles the frequency. Last but not least, when I was tuning, I try to hear for any beats, which show that the two strings that I am playing aren't perfect fifths.


oh and I saw this picture somewhere on the internet. Thats some pretty mean photoshopping.