Weekly Blog (2/3/19) Forces

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/forces-and-motion-basics

Summary:

Force is any interaction with any object that will, in some way change the motion of an object. That means that if an object is in place and not moving it will stay that way until it is acted upon by an external force, causing it to move. Same goes for if an object is already in motion. It will stay that way until acted upon causing it to change course or slow down, speed up, or change it's motion in any way. If multiple, opposing forces, are present then you subtract the lesser force from the greater to get the net force.


S&EP:
To demonstrate this concept as a model, we used a few of the simulations from the link under the image above, including the one portrayed in the image.

XCC:

If everything is stable, there is 0 net force nothing will ever change until one force becomes greater than the rest or another force is applied (stability and change).

Weekly Blog(1/20/19) Acceleration Graphs

Summary:

Acceleration graphs are very use full for documenting how fast something is accelerating. The x axis is acceleration and the y axis is time. That can be useful if you are doing something like buying a race car and you don't want it to take forever to get up to speed. It is also useful for measuring how much force is needed to bring something up to speed.

S&EP:

We used models

Project Blog (12/20/18) Charity Fair

Summary

  Charity fair is an event where we research a charity and what it does. Then we make a product and a ignite presentation to try to advertise our charity. Then the top few groups get a share of the money earned on charity fair donated to the charity that they campaigned for. We always raise a lot of money on the night of charity fair selling the products with the board that we worked on for the past few days.

Backward-Looking

Before this started I knew that shootings were a big problem in the US but I didn't know how much we could do about it. I thought that the only way to prevent these shootings was to make guns or at least semi-automatic weapons. But there are so many other things you can do, since we aren't really getting anywhere with law against guns. There a ways to be alarmed if someone has the symptoms that they might do a shooting and give them mental help and support that they need.

Inward-Looking

I feel like the whole project, in the end, turned out pretty good. Our final presentation of the ignite presentation on charity fair night actually turned out good. Our board looked good too. But I felt like we could have had another product that people would have been more happy to buy.

Outward-Looking

Weekly Blog (12/16/18) Speed vs Velocity

https://www.fs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Speed-and-Velocity.png

Summary

          Speed is how fast something is moving. Nothing to do with direction or how it is moving just the pure, well, speed. Velocity is speed and direction with mass.

S&EP

          We put cars down a track and measured the time it took different cars to get to the end. We also watched a lot of videos explaining these different functions and what is the difference. This helped me toward mastery because it helped me understand how speed is a lot more general and velocity is speed and direction.

Weekly blog (12/8/18) Motion

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*sOGYN3djYzO3Kcu-wMGtCg.jpeg

Summary

          Motion is the process of moving something from one place to another. There are different types of motion. One of these is relative motion which is motion in relativity to something else. If you are walking, you are moving in relativity to the sidewalk. If you are lying down you are staying still in relativity to the bed and earth. But you ARE moving in relativity to the sun the the rest of the cosmos. Moving is all about relativity. Everything is moving from galaxies flying through space and unbelievable speeds to the atoms vibrating inside of us. But a lot of things just appear to be stationary around us because we are moving with them.

S&EP

          I constructed physical, mental or conceptual models to represent and understand phenomena when I graphed people's motions to figure out their displacement vs distance they traveled. This helped me understand the difference between displacement and distance traveled.

XCC

          Everything that has matter has some sort of energy. It is nearly impossible to have matter with no energy in it. This is why everything is moving. If something has energy, it's molecules and atoms will be vibrating. Everything is always moving.

Weekly Blog (11/30/18) Carbon Footprint

https://www.kisspng.com/png-carbon-footprint-ecological-footprint-low-carbon-e-958742/

Summary

          Transportation of almost any sorts (besides stuff like walking and riding your bike) puts extremely large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. After figuring out the carbon footprint of our product we found out how large of a number it really is. Yes, there are a lot of things being shipped at once so it ends up a much lower number but that is still such a large amount of pollutants overall. This is what is causing a lot of global warming.

S&EP

          We made a model by plotting all the places that all the components in our product have been. Then we thought of what mode of transport was most likely used for that shipping. After that we calculated how much CO2 must have been produced for that journey. Then we added all that together to get our final carbon footprint. This showed us how much co2 out product produced to be made and shipped.

XCC

          The more of a demand there is for an item and the farther away it is the more Co2 is produced. And the more CO2 is produce the more the world heats up. 

Project blog(11/24/18) evolution

https://s25878.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/88.jpeg

Summary

          There are many types of animals. They have not always been how they are today. But things will also change in the future. And sometimes you just think two animals can combine to make something cool and powerful. But sometimes those things can actually be functional cool animals.

Backward-Looking

          Before this project I knew that evolution was a process that happened naturally that changed a species over time. While working on this project some difficulties included deciding which traits made it to the final species. I ended up solving this by choosing some of the traits that are most prominent and "cool" to add to the final species.While working on this piece I also had to find all my information about these two individual species to combine them and come up with something that worked.

Inward-Looking

          I generally like this piece of work in the end. I think the final product ended up conveying our original vision. I don't like how our creature looks a little unbalanced and awkward. It was satisfying to finish with a piece of work that generally looks like our plans without too much changing.

Outward- Looking

          One thing my group did differently from everyone else is that we only combined two species to make our hybrid. But we did it similar in the sense that we still combined multiple species to make a hybrid. One thing I would like people to notice while looking at this piece of work is that we put a lot of work into making the creature look nice along with the habitat around it.

https://www.birdlife.org/sites/default/files/styles/1600/public/news/andean_condor_
in_flight_1.jpg?itok=8c1dfMpb

Forward-Looking

          If I could do this project again one thing I would do differently is I would incorporate more of the bird into our creature so that it looks less like a narwhal with wings and a beak. I would have liked to make it's features more birdlike. One thing I would like to try that my classmates did is see what would happen if I added more creatures to the mix. Even if that is what makes ours unique.