{"id":402455,"date":"2017-04-28T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=27dd5834b3107e698dd834fba5a80d79"},"modified":"2017-04-28T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T23:00:00","slug":"finding-golden-mean-in-a-physics-exercise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=402455","title":{"rendered":"Finding golden mean in a physics exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The golden mean is an algebraic irrational number that has captured the popular imagination and is<br \/>\ndiscussed in many books. Indeed, some scientists believe that it appears in some patterns in nature,<br \/>\nincluding the spiral arrangement of leaves and other plant parts. Generally, the golden mean is<br \/>\nintroduced in geometry and the textbooks give the definition showing a graphical method to determine<br \/>\nit. In this short note, we want to find this number by studying projectile motion. This could be a<br \/>\nway to introduce the golden mean (also said to be the golden ratio, golden section, Fidia constant,<br \/>\ndivine proportion or extreme and mean ratio) in a physics course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The golden mean is an algebraic irrational number that has captured the popular imagination and is<br \/>\ndiscussed in many books. Indeed, some scientists believe that it appears in some patterns in nature,<br \/>\nincluding the spiral arrangement of leaves and oth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}