Luke Morgan
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Electromagnetic Lab
Turns out, all you need to make a magnet is a battery, a copper wire, and a nail. I got nailed (no pun intended) with the lovely Christian Harris, and prepared to get my hands electric with a homemade electromagnetic magnet. The point of this experiment was to explain the connections and differences between electricity and magnetism. If we attach one end of the copper wire to the north side of the battery, and wrap it around the nail around a hundred times, without overlaps, nothing will happen. But, if we attach the other end of the copper wire to the south side of the battery, two things will happen. You will very likely receive a minor shock, and, the nail will become magnetized. I tried at first to touch the paperclips to the wire, wondering why the paperclips weren't sticking. It took us forty minutes to figure it out. When we make all the electrons flowing through the wire go the same way, the nail becomes magnetized. YAAAA!~@!@PU*!P@P*U
Filling in the Gaps- Spacecam
I guess when I started blogging about the Spacecam, I assumed that the readers knew what I was talking about. If you look earlier in my blog, you can see near daily posts on what we accomplished, and what we lost. Mr. H. saw some sort of video on online that showed a father and his children sending a camera into the upper atmosphere via weather balloon. He organized the whole thing, and we divided into teams. Somehow, Jesseca, Madeline, and I (the most annoying and ambitious people in the grade) banded together to form an unstoppable force of epic magnitude. We decided to work on a container design. Madeline and Jesseca were the masterminds of the group. (Madeline wrote that.) We liked the idea of a cylinder apparatus, yet no way was it different from other designs. It was also not that durable. But somehow, Jesseca started thinking. We cut tennis balls in half, then used rolls of duck/duct tape to the container. No matter how hard we threw the container to the ground, nothing was damaged. Breakthrough! Investing our time and will, we devised an ingenious plan that would lead to the eventual destruction of the world. jk. With daily tests, (you can see them in my earlier posts,) we competed against other container ideas. Unfortunately, since we had only one camera on the bottom, we were not chosen to go up into space. Forgive and forget.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Good Riddance- 1st Change
After the first two guitar reps, I harmonized the previous chords with excerpts from previous points from the song. (The chord was G5)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)