It has been soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long since I last blogged... I'm totally not sure if I even remember how to do this. Anyway, today in 1A physics, we talked about the force diagram for a boy pushing against a wall. We got onto the topic of why walls don't moves when they were being pushed. Some said friction, others said the ground, and a few said it was their invisible friend Steve. Then Btags dropped a book on the floor and kicked it and it went skidding across room. I was thinking about it and the book has less mass then a wall. So the reason I think a wall doesn't move is because a wall has too much mass for one person to exert enough force to move it. And the more mass an object has the more anti-sliding force (a.k.a. friction) there is between the ground and the object. So that is why it is hard to move big, heavy things, like furniture. I told the class about my theory and for the most part, people agreed.
Haha it's a yo mama joke, science style
A description of my 1A science class at the Utica Academy for International Studies (UAIS) or otherwise known as the IB program.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
How do I do this?
It has been a very very very VERY long time since I last blogged. Everything has been so crazy. Anyway, today in the physics world, we discussed a wkst we got for hw after our midterm. We had to draw a physical diagram for problem #1. My first time drawing it my car ending up looking like bugs. Anyway, I had the left side of the line be negative and the right positive. When the car applied the breaks, that was 0. Next was a motion map. The points are NOT supposed to at the same position for velocity and acceleration because the points/dots mean seconds and if acceleration and velocity have the same timing, then they are canceling each other out. #3 is a position vs. time graph, a velocity vs. time graph, and an acceleration vs. time graph. I don't know how to make graphs on computers (I am soooooooooo bad with computers in general) but I found this on google images
the bottom left corner is what my group had for the position graph, the upper right for the velocity graph, and a straight line for acceleration. My table talked about whether we should draw a straight line or a stair step line for the velocity vs. time graph. We concluded that we need a straight line because a stair step line shows it as he is going and stopping, going and stopping, going and stopping. Not literally stop and go but its not a nice and smooth decrease that a car would make. Mr. B asked us which would be faster, -3 or 2. Well we know that 2 is bigger then -3 from 6th grade math, but -3 would be faster because we need to look at it in an absolute value kind of way. 3 is bigger then 2, the negative is just saying that it is in the negative quadrant of the graph. I will talk about the rest of the problems next time when we have discussed them further. Until next time,
girlieblogger123
p.s. I didn't forget about the joke, I was just seeing if you guys were paying attention
the bottom left corner is what my group had for the position graph, the upper right for the velocity graph, and a straight line for acceleration. My table talked about whether we should draw a straight line or a stair step line for the velocity vs. time graph. We concluded that we need a straight line because a stair step line shows it as he is going and stopping, going and stopping, going and stopping. Not literally stop and go but its not a nice and smooth decrease that a car would make. Mr. B asked us which would be faster, -3 or 2. Well we know that 2 is bigger then -3 from 6th grade math, but -3 would be faster because we need to look at it in an absolute value kind of way. 3 is bigger then 2, the negative is just saying that it is in the negative quadrant of the graph. I will talk about the rest of the problems next time when we have discussed them further. Until next time,
girlieblogger123
p.s. I didn't forget about the joke, I was just seeing if you guys were paying attention
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