Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Week 12 physics

On the first day we finished up all of the rest of the projects. This took up most of the class time with the different people presenting. After everyone was done presenting, we as a class look at this pulley lab he asked if the, if he lets it go one of the sides with a weigh on it will it make the pulley move. I said no, some people agreed but others disagreed. So we tested it and it moved. The reason for showing use this was to see who would be right about the lab. The next day we tested the same pulley with different weights and he let it go it didn't move. It turn out that yesterday that the weight was to small to be Accurate so he switch the weights with bigger ones. But then we did another test what if he gave one side a little pull would it slow down stop or move at a constant rate. I choose a constant rate and so did the most of the class. We tested this and we where right. The reason for this was to show objects can move and still be at a constant. We also answer some question on a piece of paper. On the next day each group was assigned a different problem and we white boarded and presented the problems. The reason for this was to make sure everyone is on the same page. On the next day we did this race car lab. We where trying to find was the velocity constant if the car is pulled by a weight at the end of a low friction track. We first found out if it takes alot of weight to pull the car. The reason for this was to see how it would act on the car. On the next day we had a assessment. The assessment wasn't very hard, it was all stuff that we have seen before. I fell pretty confident in this assessment. Once everyone was done with the assessment we finished up the lab from yesterday.







Monday, November 26, 2012

Week 11 physics

This week we presented are bridge designs. We also had a Presentation that went along with the bridge. During the testing of the bridge design we put weights on the bridge to see how much it could handle. When we where putting on the weights i was a little nervous, but we ended up holding all the weights possible. So in my experience this project was a complete success


Monday, November 12, 2012

Week 10 physics

On the first day we talked about the project that is due monday next week.we talked alot about the what you can use and what type of designs you can use to. We also talked about what is pulling or pushing more on the bridge the weigh on it or the earths forces pulling more. On the second day we talked about force pares and what are force pares. We did many examples to support and show what force paring is. On the third day i wasn't present in class. On the forth day we talked and went over what going to be on the test tomorrow. Are group went to the back of the class to study for the assessment. On the forth day we took the assessment it was pretty easy given the fact we had the same type of questions the day before. I believe that i did very well on this assessment

Friday, November 2, 2012

Week 8 physics

On the first day we where asked questions about how the three weights hanging off the table and how they can balance. we tested and tried many different ways to balance. We found that the different angles affect the balance of the forces. The reason for this was because we find do different angle effect balance of the forces. On the second day we got a sheet with different forces on them. There where eight questions and are group got question eight on the sheet we had to answer the problem and white board the data. The reason for this was to make sure that we got the concept of the different forces acting in the different problems. On the third day we presented the white board and saw in the different groups how the forces act in their problems. The reason for this is so we can see different problems. Thursday is the day we had did many force test the first was when we had 4 different people lay there heads on each other laps. All at different angles. We also dod other standing by the wall test. No body past those. The reason for this was to show how your center of gravity changes.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Week 7 physics

On the first day the majority of the class did there project. The project assigned was a thing called mobile. There where some very good mobiles. That where presented. This project was present to show how to balance thing. An i guess you can also say to learn more about people. On the second day we found out how to measured newtons and covert pounds to newtons. We used weights to learn a pattern in them or slope. On the third day we finished up the lab and white boarded our data. Once everybody was done with the white board we present the boards and compared them together as a class. The reason for this was to come to a Consensus or make sure everyone was on the right track. One the forth day we had create a lab and white board are data. The lab was testing the newtons effect on the spring. We made graph and found the slope all from the table we created. The reason for this was to see how Forces act on the springs. On the fifth day we took a Assessment on the things we did this week the assessment was a challenge Considering we didn't have a review this time.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Week 6 physics

First day talked about project that will be due monday and we covered some of the basic forces that act on things all around us. But on this day we mainly focused on the the different ideas for the project. The reason for talking about the basic forces was perpetration for our class lab tomorrow. The second day we talked a little bit more about the different forces and got to see how they work on dry ice. First we made a lot of different guess on the different forces acting on the dry ice while it was stationary. We
Talked about the different forces acting on the dry ice we soon found out that the two forces was the earth and the table. The earth was pulling it down, and the table was pushing it up. Than we Found the different forces that acts on the the ice while it was moving. The force was air. The reasoning behind the this was for us to see how the forces act against each other. On the third day we white boarded a forces graph so we can see the different forces on the dry ice and showed off are boards. The reason behind this is because we would have to make are own graphs tomorrow. On the forth day each group Got a different force on the sheet, each group was assigned a problem talked about two groups we got number 4 so we found the the different forces and graph them on are white boards. The reason behind tgis was so we can thalk about them tomorrow, sadly Mr. Abud couldn't be there.on the fifth day I ran the class. Mr abud left a Schedule for us to follow so all the groups circled up and we had a class Discussion about the different forces. The reason behind this was so the whole class gets to a Consensus. During the weekend is when me and one of my classmates worked on are projects together i took some pictures of mines.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Week 5 physics

On the Couples days of week five we talked a lot about the graph sheet and found out how the question corresponded with each other. The class got into what i call a class discuss circle so we can discuss each question together as a class. Each group was assigned a different question the first day we answer the first three question and discuss them together the second day we talked about the last five. I believe the reason behind discussing this as a class was to make sure every knows the right answer and is on the same page Hypothetically speaking. On the third day we all walked in to a surprise. The surprise was that we a lab called the t-bone lab. In this lab we had to get two toy cars to t-bone each other meaning to hit perpendicular to each other. In this lab are group was combined with another group because if the shortage off cars. We came up with a plan are plan was to measure both of the starting points to where the car is suppose to hit. We did that and tested the cars after a few adjustment to the distance angle and time started we had perfect t-bones in the practice part. But when we actually tried for the first and second time we did not succeed. So we went back out side to the hallway to make more measurements and on the third time got a t-bone on the spot exactly. After we had to white board how we did this. I think the reason for the lab and data was to get to things to meet at the same time and figure how to do so. On the forth day we talked about all the different ways people came up to get the t-bone lab right. After we pretty much review for the quiz tomorrow. On the fifth day we had to take the quiz and on the quiz it pretty much asked question that we have talked about in class. On this quiz i felt very confident and feel the i should have a hand full of fours on the quiz.