Static Equilibrium

For my physics blog this week, I took a picture of cars moving on the freeway when I was going out to the Waipio soccer field. Although it’s not a perfect example of this vocabulary world, I feel that in this picture it could resemble “static equilibrium.” Static equilibrium means that it’s a stationary object that’s not accelerating. In this picture basically all the cars are going about 55-60 mph (which is the speed limit.) This means that for the whole stretch of the freeway, the cars are basically in static equilibrium, especially because of the fact that there’s no traffic at this time.