Driving home on a rainy day, keeping you on Earth, and your favorite everyday activities, physics is always acting on you. To see it in action, the physics classes went on a field trip. The students used buses, tubes, the snow, and themselves to see how physics affects the world around them.

“The whole purpose of the field trip was to have a real life example of acceleration and friction and how they correlate,” Kevin Steibel, junior, said. “We were given a packet before-hand that we have to fill out, and it requires us to find masses, as well as frictional forces and other variables.”

All three levels of the Physics classes traveled to Wilmot Mountain where they went tubing, as well as found friction, gravitational, normal, and net forces in relationship to themselves and the snow. Although learning was a major part of the field trip, students still had time to just enjoy the mountain with their friends.

“We had around three hours to gather our data,” Miriam Chung, junior, said. “So some of us got into groups and separated all the work so that we could have free time before we left.”

Despite missing school and other important classes, Steibel believes that even though Physics students learned all the skills necessary in class, the best way to understand is to see it all in action.

“I definitely think that the trip was worth it and useful,” Steibel said. “No matter how much you are given in class, when you actually go and see how [it] works for yourself in a fun way, it really helps put it all together.”