Just yesterday, while I was studying, I came across a question about why a car tire would be flat on a cold winter morning. I took me a while to figure out why, but finally the idea sparked. I knew it had to be related to science since the question was on the science study guide. In school we were learning about the different states of matter and all the different laws. For example, Charles Law and Boyle's Law. My conclusion was that the tire would be flat because the tire had been exposed to the cold all night. According to Charle's Law, when the temperature decreases the volume decreases. Therefore, the tire is flat. Also, the molecules inside the tire slow down because of the cold temperature and the pressure inside the tire also decreases. Then Coincidently, while I was shooting some hoops this morning, I realized that my basketball was flat. I wondered why. It braught me back to the tire problem. The basketball had been out in the cold garage all night. I'm guessing that is why my basketball was flat in the moring. It wasn't as flat as the picture above, but it didn't bounce as high as it did before. It had lost some volume. I just thought it was really weird that I experienced this the very next day after the tire problem. It made me wonder: how many more things have I experianced which have been directly connected to science? I bet we come across many problems directly related to science, but we never sit and realize it. Science is everywhere. The Laws are in action all the time!
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