Friday, September 28, 2012

week 3 physics

This week the first day, we went out side. we where trying to get the car to cross a line at exactly 20 seconds. My group we did some math and and we figured the best way to do this is by test the car and see how far the car would go in 20 seconds. So we go all of are measurements together so we could test it. The first time we weren't so successful, we had cross the line about three seconds before. But then the next time we did great, with a time of 20.08 seconds. We where very proud that we tied for second place in the class. The second, day, we only talked about the previous day and how groups got the times they did. Third day, we went to the room next door to design are what i call walking graphs. On this you had to use meters and seconds on the graph. The four day, consider of groups challenging other groups to walk the graph. So graphs were very easy, but some where very hard because you had to walk 7 or 8 meters in one second. After all of the fun we went back to class to reflect on this week before the Assessment tomorrow. Fifth day, we took the assessment i believe i did very well on this assessment considering i felt very confidant while taking it.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

FIRST COUPLE OF WEEKS IN PHYSICS

In week three we did alot of exprimenting the the length and wieght of the stickes. first we seat down and talked about the sticks and found out how they where related. We found out which sticks belong in which groups. After we found out which group they belong to we tried to find the length and wieght of the the sticks. Over all we want to find out how the corespond. Once we figure how they corespond we made a graph, found the slope, then we found the equation. Once we had all are work on paper we put it on a white board to show the class. We talked about all the graphs in the room, and got to walk around and see all of the differnt graphs and how they relate in the room. a lot of the graphs had very simular lines but never the same. then we talked about them some more and moved to are next assignment. Are next assignment was finding the speed of the battery fuld car. first we had to find out what we where doing with car by asking questions and find out which one was the real big question. which was how to findthe speed of the car. The way we found out how to find the speed was by measuring the distance it traveled in a certain amount of time such as three seconds.