Mass & Weight
Question:
Determine the relative mass (amount of matter in an object) of each bird. Why does it matter?
Does the mass of the bird affect the weight of the bird? How?
What does the way the different birds interact with the different materials the "pig fortress" is made of tell you about the density/type of material?
Does the mass of the bird affect the weight of the bird? How?
What does the way the different birds interact with the different materials the "pig fortress" is made of tell you about the density/type of material?
Answer:
Below are the masses of all seven birds in the regular edition of Angry Birds, relative to a given mass of 3 kg for the red bird.
RED BIRD: 3 kg (given)
YELLOW BIRD: 2.43 kg
BLUE BIRD: 5.91 kg
WHITE BIRD: 2.92 kg
BLACK BIRD: 4.36 kg
BIG RED BIRD (TERENCE): 3.64 kg
TOUCAN: 2.04 kg
These numbers matter in the game because the bird's launch angle and initial trajectory are dependent on the bird's mass.
In Angry Bird World, acceleration due to gravity (rate of change of velocity due to the downward pull of gravity) is a constant 6.12 m/s/s, meaning that weight (mass times gravitational acceleration) will be directly proportional to mass.
The main materials in Angry Birds are wood, glass, and stone. In order of least dense to densest, they appear to be glass < wood < stone.
RED BIRD: 3 kg (given)
YELLOW BIRD: 2.43 kg
BLUE BIRD: 5.91 kg
WHITE BIRD: 2.92 kg
BLACK BIRD: 4.36 kg
BIG RED BIRD (TERENCE): 3.64 kg
TOUCAN: 2.04 kg
These numbers matter in the game because the bird's launch angle and initial trajectory are dependent on the bird's mass.
In Angry Bird World, acceleration due to gravity (rate of change of velocity due to the downward pull of gravity) is a constant 6.12 m/s/s, meaning that weight (mass times gravitational acceleration) will be directly proportional to mass.
The main materials in Angry Birds are wood, glass, and stone. In order of least dense to densest, they appear to be glass < wood < stone.