Mine is in the making a picture of mine will be in soon.
In this project we covered the basics on electromagnetism and how there are fields that hold things together. These fields are made of electricity flowing through an object with a soft center and a solid exterior. the current flows through the exterior and makes the center magnetic because the field has something to flow through. In my project we have a D-Cell battery, two large paperclips, and copper wire wrapped about eight times around a AA battery. When the current flows through the paper clips to the copper wire it makes a magnetic field which reacts to the magnet under the coil. The coil will spin because the ends are facing the same way.
Homeade Batteries
In this project we went over the basics and how batteries are in everything. We started with the components. They are Anode, Cathode, and the electrolyte solution. the cathode is positive and the anode is negative. A battery works by giving off electrons the electrons are given by the anode and collected by the cathode. The electrolyte solution allows the electrons to flow through an pass through and create the circuit. when the circuit is closed it allows the electrons to go and charge things or add power to turn you phone screen on.
In this project we were assigned both a humanities and physics part in which I have my final Rube Goldberg down below. A lot of people look at a RGBM and think "Wow that's so cool!" but we went further into how everything works in this project. For example when the white car goes down the 720 Degree spiral it gets its most potential energy at both the top and at the bottom but it has its most Kinetic energy at the edge of the spiral.
When we were introduced to the project we started with learning the basics like Energy, the mechanics of everything, and as a how we grew as a student during this project. to start off I will be going over the Energy and how it plays its part in this. There is a term called the conservation of energy which is where energy cant be created nor destroyed, it runs in a cycle or as a river because the water flows down through the valleys and turns into a tributary which goes to a larger river and so on until it reaches the ocean in which it gets pulled up and brought back to a different water source and make a new river or ends back up in the ocean then repeats. Another term that is used is Energy transfer which is where the subcategories come into play, the two are Potential energy and Kinetic energy. Potential energy is where an object is at rest or is going downwards it is just holding what it has. Kinetic energy is where an object is in motion and how if it is at at a high point it is holding the most energy. The mechanics of this project are in the six simple steps. The steps are Inclined plane, wedge, lever, wheel & axle, screw, and pulley. The steps play the biggest part in this because if you don't have them then your rube will not count and it wont do anything. The steps are shown in my project throughout the video because it starts off with a pulley holding a string holding a car. The scissors (wedge) then get to the 720 degree spiral that a hotwheel (Wheel & Axle) goes down. After the car goes through the gauntlet between Healthy food and the Fast food corporations. The car hits a lever which releases another car that hits the apple and makes it go into a box. My challenge step was a 720 degree spiral which is basically two conjoined three hundred and sixty degree spirals. In this project I learned a big reoccurring lesson that when you get a project you should start the moment you get it. I also learned that I can make really cool things if I put my all into it but when I do time management is a crucial part in anything I do. My biggest challenge was finding how I was going to get everything done and get it to connect together and make it pop out the other side to accomplish my simple task. How I got past this was I purely used trial and error until I could get it to work almost every time. My greatest strength was getting the pulley to stay which I had to nail it down at a certain angle.
Photography of Physics
During this project I studied waves and optics. As my main project I decided to study waves and the image below is what I chose as an example.
Reflection
My greatest strength was helping build the camera obscura and making the room completely dark. The outcome of this was that we had the highway and all of the cars driving past. The coolest part of this was that we managed to get the trees to show every branch or twig and we started to have the ability to differentiate all of the cars and trucks for what brand they were. I struggled with understanding refraction because I didn’t get how it would bend light when traveling through a medium. The biggest obstacle in understanding this was getting the concept because it just confused me. I finally went to Tina and asked what exactly makes the light bend and if the road looks like water if that is. My biggest takeaway from this project is that waves and optics are everywhere and that if we didn’t have them the world probably just wouldn’t be the same. This learning is showed mainly in my final project because it shows my understanding of waves and how they can differentiate. I have grown as a scientist because I now know a lot about waves and optics and I can use them in everyday life. I can use optics every day because I need to see but I also need to use waves to hear, and my eyes will take in the waves and create an image. I feel like I did pretty good on this project because I paid attention and advocated to make sure I understand everything in this unit. The one thing I could have changed was that I made sure I didn’t focus on loris work so I didn’t fall behind. I also made sure that if I understood the concept and got everything in either on time or the next day.