Tennis and Biology

Walking to my tennis class today, I was thinking what on earth am I going to write on this weeks blog. I was trying to think of recent connections I had made and, although there were some, they were usually just a word. As I walked onto the tennis court I bounced the ball up and down. I began hitting back and forth with my partner and then I began thinking about the homework that is due tomorrow for my biology class and how, yesterday, we had just talked about Kinetic Energy. As I continued to play with my partner(I won of course), I started to think how hitting this tennis ball related to kinetic energy. Ah hah! A connection!

The definition of Kinetic Energy is the energy of motion. Simple enough. Tennis is motion. Every time I hit that tennis ball, I used kinetic energy to get it over the net. Everything that is involved in tennis requires some sort of energy. Throwing the ball up for the toss, hitting it, running up to retrieve a ball, and jumping up and down to celebrate the win. It's ironic how a class that I hate so much and a class that I love so much can, in fact, be interrelated.