FUJI-SAAAANNNN!!!!!!!!

Okay, sorry this isn't about class day but just today in class I had a revelation about something that happened in Japan in the spring. So over spring break, my cousin's family, my grandma and my aunty took me to Japan with them and it was a very interesting experience. My first physics example (yes, I have two this time!) is about these cable cars to in Hakone. We wanted to get to this lake and in order to do that we had to take all these trains and buses and these cable cars. The Japanese tourists there went CRAZY when they spotted Mount Fuji through the window. While I was flipping through these pics, I saw the one of the cable car. Remembering the lab, I thought of how the cable line, although it looks straight in this picture, actually sags because there is always that weight vector down. The second thing about Japan that I had a realization today about in class was... while we were getting to Hakone, we had to take these tiny trains all the way up this mountain. During the train ride, we would go forward one way then backwards over and over again. I was wondering why we kept on backtracking but then after class today I know that we weren't backtracking, we were zig zagging up the mountain because it probably would have been too much work to go straight up the mountain.