UFC+Punching+Power

Names: Bobby and Josh

Title: UFC Punching Force

Lab goal/question: To find the force of UFC Champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson punch and compare it to our own. Materials Used: Youtube.com Logger Pro Force Scale Rampage's Mass

Procedure:
 * 1) Find data on Rampage. (Weight, Reach, Fighting Video, etc.)
 * 2) Post the video on Logger Pro
 * 3) Analyze the video/ Find his horizontal acceleration and vertical acceleration. Determine overall acceleration.
 * 4) Multiply his acceleration by his mass to find his force.
 * 5) Find our own punching force by punching the scale.
 * 6) Compare data and write conclusion

Data/calculations: Fast forward to 4 minutes and watch until 4:25 media type="youtube" key="jzYMX_3K_xE?fs=1" height="385" width="480"



Acceleration X=43.2 m/s^2 Acceleration Y=74.3 m/s^2 Formula for Total Acceleration: AX^2 + AY^2= A^2 Total acelleration=85.94 m/s^2 Mass=93kg Formula for Force: M*A=F Force=7992 N or 1797 lbs Our Force Average (Casual Punch)= 900.65 N or 202.4 lbs

Reflection/conclusion: Through this we improved our skills with LoggerPro by analyzing video footage and experimenting with different tools. We found a Youtube video and converted it into the format LoggerPro uses for videos: a .mov file. After analyzing the video and finding the average acceleration, we multiplied mass by the acceleration to find his force which was 7992 Newtons. We then casually punched the force scale to determine the average force of our casual punch. Our average punch was 900.65 N. We then converted these forces into pounds. Rampage punched with 1797 pounds of force while we punched with 202.4 pounds. This is about an eighth of Rampage's force. This truly shows how powerful a UFC fighter is. This project was actually more difficult than initially presumed. Finding and analyzing the video was an especially difficult task because not only did we have to find a video where Rampage was hitting something but the punch had to be at the correct angle of the camera for us to analyze it accurately. Obviously we were not able to find a perfect video, which may have led to a slight error of our calculations. If we had more time to complete the project, we would have attempted to find Rampage's power and compare it to our own. Other than that, we found our work in this project to be successful and interesting. Being able to find and compare our punching forces was greatly rewarding to us.