Recently, our Year 10 AMS physics and mathematical methods students took part in an excursion to iFly indoor skydiving at Surfers Paradise.
Through extraordinary demonstrations using different shaped balls and water droplets, students learned about Newton’s three laws of motion and how gravity and air resistance (drag) produce a net force, which leads to a constant velocity (terminal velocity).
Each student was then able to try out indoor skydiving and learn that maintaining stable flight is more difficult than it looks. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves, while gaining extensive knowledge about the principles of free-fall motion.
