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Physics of Crowd Surfing

amandarocks27

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So, I like going to concerts and something that I usually see is crowd surfing. Crowd surfing is definitely a thrill, buts it's interesting how you can find physics in anything; like crowd surfing at your favorite band's concert.

Crowd surfing can be a tricky thing to maneuver. You have to consider mass and some forces like gravity. When you're crowd surfing, you're being held up by the other concertgoers. You have to make sure that they can support you; after all their hands can only hold up so much at a time. This makes me think of free body diagrams. In this case, the object would actually be your body. A force is being applied to you by the people holding you up. The other force at work here is gravity. If the crowd can no longer hold you, and gravity is already pushing you down, then you are falling and hopefully you don't land on your head.

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