Today when I was doing homework, it was really windy outside and the windows were rattling. I was worried that something might fall over, and sure enough, I heard a loud “thud” because our bamboo plant in the living room had fallen off the table. It was a pretty strange accident, so I thought about the physics that could have caused the accident. First of all, it was evident that the wind provided a really strong force to push the plant off the table. In addition, when I examined the plant, it was already tilting away from the wind, causing its center of gravity to be too much to the side. With its center of gravity, or center of mass, shifted, it was easier for the plant to fall over. There wasn’t any other force on the other side of the plant, such as a support, keeping its center of gravity/mass in the right place. Therefore, because the plants weight was shifted away from the wind and the wind provided another force in the same direction, the plant had no choice but to fall over, due to physics.
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