{"id":4812,"date":"2025-10-21T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:15:59","slug":"physics-helps-huntington-middle-students-prepare-for-pumpkin-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2025\/10\/21\/physics-helps-huntington-middle-students-prepare-for-pumpkin-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics helps Huntington Middle students prepare for pumpkin drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s pumpkin drop season in Huntington!<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sean P. McBride, associate professor of physics at Marshall University, visited Huntington Middle School\u2019s 7th grade class to share a fun lesson on the physics behind the annual Pumpkin Drop. Students learned how concepts like force, impact, and momentum can make the difference between a smashed pumpkin and a surviving one.<\/p>\n<p>After exploring the science, students brainstormed creative designs for their pumpkin enclosures\u2014each hoping their design will protect their pumpkin when it\u2019s dropped from the school\u2019s fourth-floor roof on October 30.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to all the teams, and may the best physics prevail!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s pumpkin drop season in Huntington! Dr. Sean P. McBride, associate professor of physics at Marshall University, visited Huntington Middle School\u2019s 7th grade class to share a fun lesson on the physics behind the annual Pumpkin Drop. Students learned how concepts like force, impact, and momentum can make the difference between a smashed pumpkin and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":4814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,79,53,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-math-physics","category-outreach","category-physics","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/physics-pumpkin-drop-2025.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}