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)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Jesseca Kusher's Hypothesis
I have a hypotheses! No, actually, Jesseca does. Her point using that the camera at the bottom of the container would work a lot better than on the side. I believe that this is a great idea. However, the camera would only take pictures of the earths surface. I believe that we would do better off if we attached a camera on the side of the container.... AND the bottom! Since the container will not reach the same heights that the ISS does, it will be at a different angle and have a different effect. So the solution is..... make both. Compromise! However, we are now in a Space Race, and I think that container that can finish this design by the allotted time slot should be sent up in space. Might I remind everyone of the design used by Ashley's Group..... BEGIN my children!!!!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Balloon in Space- Thursday.
It seems with our lens broken and MR. Harrelson having to choose the container from like 200 amazing designs, people have become less stressed. Anyway, we are almost done with our container. There was a minor dispute over whether to attach the lid to the body with zip ties or duct tape. Hello! Both. Mr. Harrelson likes to drill....... especially Jessesca's head.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Balloon in Space- Wednesday
After testing on Tuesday, all seemed to be in order. But when we came into class today, our clear lens for the balloon had cracked in two. I seemed to be the only one not interested in who done it, but how to fix it. Apparently, rubber cement spreads and goos up the lens. Finally, we resorted to the greatest invention of all time. Duct Tape.
Balloon in Space- Tuesday
As the launch day approaches, tensions are rising. Since all other possible contenders have failed to succeed during tests except ours, one can only assume that the tennis ball model will be the one chosen for the universal container. However, Mr. Harrelson
has the final say, so we might as well prepare for all possible situations.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Camera in Space Post 1
To start things off, I would like to point out the the apparent "Team Bouey's" real name is "Team Tennis-Ball," for obvious reasons. Not only is the bouy project dead, but tennis balls are much more relevant to our container. To recap for missed time, specific people (Sam) probably know that we are sending a camera into space. Team tennis Ball is in charge of creating a container that is two things. And those two things are: to make one better than other container teams (Fluffy), and be able to withstand the harsh effects that the upper atmosphere has on the container. Wait, three things. The camera has to survive. Our main body is made of plastic from a lysol container. I will finish this blog when i get home because it is now time to leave school.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Balloon car measurements.
Mass: 12 grams.
Distance: 151 cm
Time: 5 seconds
F=MA
Acceleration: 6.04 centimeters per seconds squared.
Force: 755 N
V= Delta D/ Delta T
Velocity: 30.2 cm per seconds.
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