After talking about impulse in class and seeing the experiment we did as a class I began to wonder how is it that a person is able to karate chop a piece of wood. Looking at it from a physics point of view I know that the person would have to be very fast when karate chopping the piece of wood because we know that impulse is a change in momentum and impulse = force times time. In order for the force to be as greatest as possible, the person karate chopping the piece of wood would have to be very quick. This is just looking at the situation form a physics point of view, of course there are other rules and understandings when it comes to karate chopping a piece of wood that only those who practice karate would know. But this just goes to show that physics can be found almost anywhere.
Katty Molina
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