Joseph Foy
As you all know, we did a project on finding moments where math was used in film not too far into the past. While elements of math can be found in certain scenes of movies, math is also used in the making of movies, as well as the making of the materials used to create these films. For instance, when the original Star Wars was being made in 1977, many of the technologies needed were not available. As a result, the staff of the movie crew made their own. One of these tools was called the “Dykstraflex”, which involved a crane that effortlessly moved the camera around. Mathematics were used to determine how long the shaft would be, as well as the maximum range of movement it would have. Math is also used in various other films to determine the sizes of sets and props that will be most convenient for the actors to interact with and use. So, a shorter time ago, in a galaxy not-so-far-away, math was and is still used in the making of film.
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Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Dumbo, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatian. What do these movies have in common? In each of these Disney animated films, constructed depends entirely on computers and math. Trigonometry helps rotate and move characters and algebra creates the special effects that make images shine and sparkle. Calculus helps light the scenes. Linear perspective is also used in animation. Animators think of an object’s apparent size as the width times the height divided by the distance from the viewpoint. The farther away this is the smaller it looks. This is known as a linear transformation. An animator is an artist who creates multiple images called frames. They use math to find unknown numbers from a simple set of equations. They also have to work out aspects of geometric figures when they are dealing with objects that move and change. An animator uses linear algebra to show the way that an object is rotated and shifted and made larger and smaller. Therefore, math is an integral part of animation. Mickey Mouse couldn’t have said it better "Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." Navya Dixit Ever wondered how math is involved with golf? Me either until I had to write this post but I guess I should inform you on the many different ways that math and how all those random numbers actually play a role in golf. To begin, each golf club is set a certain loft. The loft, which in a sense is the angle the golf clubs is set at, may be sixty degrees maybe or may be fifteen degrees this varies based on each club. Each loft has an affect on how far you will hit the golf ball. The lower the loft the more direct of a hit, in return the ball will go for longer distances. Also, you score is, very obviously, affected in golf and to calculate it you use math. With golf, all the birdies will put you at one under each time you get one or all the bogies will put you one over. If you play a completely an entire round of golf shooting par on every hole you shoot even. If you shoot a birdie on eight holes that would cause you to be eight under. You may also get a double or triple bogie which is two or three over and an eagle is two under, each score will cause you to be over or under the par for a course. That's how math affects your score in golf! (Bryce Garner) http://www.connectamillionminds.com/campaigns/stem-in-sports/golf Math is related in volleyball in many ways. Some ways most people really don't think about. The force around the volleyball its.ef determines how hard and high the ball will be hit. The total number of players on the court determines how much area needs to be covered by each player. On a volleyball court there are six players on the court at a time. The positions differ depending on the player. Before the game starts a serve has to happen. There are two different types of serves. One is a floating serve that glides through the air and over the net and the other serve is a arched serve. The arched serve curves over like a upside down parabola. One position on the volleyball court is the setter. The setter is the person that sets the ball to the hitter which then hits the ball. But before the setter gets the ball the defensive specialist has to pass the ball. This is repeated every time a ball is served. Math is related in volleyball in many ways but at different times. One way is when the ball is passed and how the defensive specialist passing platform is, that in itself makes a triangle. Another way is how the ball is served and what shape it makes. The final way is how the ball is hit. The reason this last one is related is because when she hits the ball it determines not only the speed behind it but how much area she took up when she jumps. Courtney Sutton As many of you know and have seen on here, sports are directly correlated with math in many ways. One of the main sports being baseball. In baseball there are many different methods of math you could use to calculate many different things such as batting average, reaction time, and even win percentages! Reaction time is one of the most important things in baseball, due to it being the only reason you’re able to hit the ball. Distance, Velocity, and Timing are all very important when you are trying to calculate the reaction time in which a hitter has to hit the ball. For instance, if the Braves’ Julio Teheran pitches a 95 mph fastball to the Nationals’ Bryce Harper, he only has .434 of a second to decide whether or he wants to swing. Turns out Julio’s fastball buckles the knees of Bryce Harper, and he watches strike three go right by him. With the ball traveling at 95 mph, and home plate being 60 feet and 6 inches away from the pitcher’s mound, the ball is traveling at an astounding 139.33 feet per second. Baseball goes really in depth when it comes to math. Coaches calculate so many things while sitting on the bucket at the front of the dugout, not just giving out pitching signs. There are all kinds of dividing such as the reaction time explained earlier, and even the ERA of many pitchers. As you can tell baseball involves a lot more math than just going out and tossing the ball around in your backyard. So if you’re going to become a Major League Baseball Player, I suggest you get your reaction times down pat, and have a really good hand-eye coordination. Sources: http://academics.smcvt.edu/twhiteford/Math/Alexa%20Long.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_field The Golden Arches are the symbol of McDonald's, the global fast-food restaurant chain. Originally, real arches were part of the restaurant design. They were incorporated into the chain's logo in 1962, which resembled a stylized restaurant, and in the current Golden Arches logo, introduced 1968, resembling an "M" for "McDonald's". The McDonald's logo is a perfect example of parabolas appearing in life. If they were to be expressed in equations, we know that they would be negative parabolas, and that "a" would be greater than 1 because of how stretched it is. However, the arch has many sizes, depending on the popularity of the location. Many people have resulted with different equations and solutions for the Golden Arches. For example, the standard form is y = - x2 + 8x - 11 and the vertex form is y = -(x - 4)2 + 5, but this is only the equations one person came up with. In other words, the Golden Arches representing McDonald’s has various answers, so we don’t definitely know which answer is correct yet. TaMia Artis Math is used everywhere. Many people don't think about it, but math is used for many, many, things. Math is even used in building the tall poles and signs for restaurants like McDonalds and Hardee's. Engineers have to calculate how tall they can make the sign and how wide it would have to be at the bottom to make the sign a certain height. Engineers have to use proportions to make sure that once the sign is up, that it won't fall down again. They have to think about how far into the ground the pole need to be so it will stand straight up and not lean. They even have to think about how big the top of the pole should be so that the sign will fit and won't make the pole top heavy. This is not only used for restaurant signs, but also telephone poles and cell phone towers. For all of these things, you wouldn't really think that people use math to build them, but they really do. Engineers have to think about the math behind these poles, so that they do not fall. Hannah Williamson When making shoes, there is math involved. I decided to uses high heels because of the arch it has. Depending on the angle of the shoe is what makes the person able to wear them or not. Some people also like the heels to be higher than others and that also has to do with math because when the shoe people are calculating the height. There all the different heights ranging from one point five inch up to five inches. The one point five inch would be called kitten heel and the five inch heel would be called a stiletto. Im sure that there is a computer nowadays that would have all the information to make a high heel but back then, there was not that type of technology. That is when the people actually had to make the shoes by hand. The slant of the heel would usually be fifty three degrees and then the actually whole shoe would be forty degrees. The shoes must be put on a conveyer belt so that the workers can slide the soles into the shoe, which also has to do with math because the conveyer belt is a certain length and that had to be measured mathematically. Blake Summers By now it is definitely known that math is everywhere. For example, the location of math ranges from the simple things such as counting money to the more difficult formulas such as determining the fastest speed that a roller coaster has to go in order to complete a loop and the slowest speed that it has to go in order to not go racing off the track. However, these are not the only places that math is present. Math, specifically the Fibonacci Sequence, is also seen in nature. The Fibonacci Sequence is a series of number in which the sum of the two previous numbers equals the next number in the series. An example of a Fibonacci Sequence is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and so on. It is found in nature in the arrangement of leaves, the head of a flower, and many others as well as in animals. Although plants don't necessarily know that they are growing according to this series, it's still very interesting to detect the use of math in objects that aren't even alive. This demonstrates how intricate math is and how often it is seen. For more information go to: http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emat6680/parveen/fib_nature.htm Hayley Jones Math being used in sports is becoming more common over the years. For instance take swimming, swimming has two different seasons, short course(25 yards) and long course (50 meters), to have beginning season long course times the coach will often take the short course time and convert it. Most commonly a good estimation of a long course time is adding 10 seconds per one hundred to the short course time. This would mean if I swam a 1:00 100 freestyle, my long course time should be around 1:10. These conversions help kids to be placed where they will be challenged the most. The right competition can help them go faster. These conversion times also help kids qualify for meets that they made in short course without having to go through the stress of qualifying again. For example, in short course I qualified for an age championships, my conversion time from qualifying has allowed me to go again for long course. Anna Breck |
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