Photographs of Physics
For our photographs of physics projects we were just taking pictures of different physics phenomenons. We took pictures of reflection, waves, refraction, color and light emission.
My greatest strength throughout this project was simply doing the project and taking the pictures. It was fun and easy. We had to make a bubble mixture then capture pictures that showed what we learned about. My picture is a little blurry but it demonstrates refraction very well because the colors are so visible.
My greatest obstacle was understanding the information. Throughout learning about refraction I would get confused and not understand the content. When I would get confused with what we were learning and how it worked I would start to wonder why we were even learning about it just because it didn’t seem relevant to my life. I dealt with this just by staying calm and asking all my questions when I had them. In the future I will just stay more positive and ask even more questions to avoid being confused and getting frustrated.
My biggest take away from this assignment is that physics is in everything around us. This was demonstrated not only in the bubble project but all the other ones we did. This is my biggest take away just because I think it's important to relate our learning to real world situations. If we are learning about something that has no relevance to our lives we won’t want to learn about it because it isn’t important to us. This is seen in my written description of my photograph. I think I explained everything very clearly and simply. This shows that I actually learned, because I cared.
I grew as a scientist because now I know that a lot of science is around us in our everyday lives so I won’t just give up if I'm confused. Most of the time if I don’t understand something I tend to stop caring and I don’t want to actually learn it anymore, I'll just write down what I have to write down. The way Tina taught us through this project showed a new significance to science and now I realize it is very relevant to our everyday lives and I will persevere more.
I feel like I did pretty well on this project. I learned and understood the information I needed and I can demonstrate that in my photograph.
My greatest obstacle was understanding the information. Throughout learning about refraction I would get confused and not understand the content. When I would get confused with what we were learning and how it worked I would start to wonder why we were even learning about it just because it didn’t seem relevant to my life. I dealt with this just by staying calm and asking all my questions when I had them. In the future I will just stay more positive and ask even more questions to avoid being confused and getting frustrated.
My biggest take away from this assignment is that physics is in everything around us. This was demonstrated not only in the bubble project but all the other ones we did. This is my biggest take away just because I think it's important to relate our learning to real world situations. If we are learning about something that has no relevance to our lives we won’t want to learn about it because it isn’t important to us. This is seen in my written description of my photograph. I think I explained everything very clearly and simply. This shows that I actually learned, because I cared.
I grew as a scientist because now I know that a lot of science is around us in our everyday lives so I won’t just give up if I'm confused. Most of the time if I don’t understand something I tend to stop caring and I don’t want to actually learn it anymore, I'll just write down what I have to write down. The way Tina taught us through this project showed a new significance to science and now I realize it is very relevant to our everyday lives and I will persevere more.
I feel like I did pretty well on this project. I learned and understood the information I needed and I can demonstrate that in my photograph.
Rube Goldberg Machine with Satirical Pieces
For this project we were required to make a working Rube Goldberg Machine using all 6 simple machines. We were told to add satirical devices throughout our machine to tie in humanities and give the machine some meaning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVqKC48PRg&feature=youtu.be
The conservation of energy is a law in physics that states energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be altered and change forms. A spot in my rube Goldberg machine where this is demonstrated very clearly is when the ping pong ball comes out of the shoe box and hits the cap that is connected to a string. The cap is not moving at first, it does not have any energy, but when it rolls and falls off the platform it IS using energy. It did not create that energy, it just transferred from the ping pong ball rolling through the box into the cap.
Energy transfer is exactly what it sounds like, the energy just transfers, moves through, one object to the next through the change in heat, mass, or work. This is demonstrated very clearly in my Rube Goldberg in the very first step when I drop the hacky sack on the inclined plane. The energy is being transferred through the work of my arm into the rolling of the hacky sack.
The six simple machines are just functions that reduce the effort and work a person has to put into something. They are important because they create the ability to preform tasks beyond normal capability.
If you look closely each step of my Rube Goldberg machine is one of each of the six simple machines. Throughout the whole machine you'll find an inclined plane, a wedge, a lever, a wheel, a screw and a pulley system.
We were also required to have a "challenge step" somewhere in our machine. I chose the mystery box option, for this choice I just had to somehow make my ball go trough this box for a certain amount of seconds without the viewer seeing whats going on inside the box. My box just had a bunch of zig-zag ramps. it goes in the top and down to the right, then to the left, back to the right and so on until it comes out the side after a couple seconds.
My number one take away from this project is that the six simple machines are used in a lot more daily functions than I assumed. Just learning about the machines made me realize this because they were always on my mind for a couple days and while I was trying to built my machines I would notice one of the machines already working in an object I wanted to use.
I faced my greatest challenge throughout this project when I was trying to actually build my machine. I had to go through a lot of trial and error because something that I planned out in my mind wouldn't actually work how it needed to so I kept brainstorming different functions throughout the entire process. I overcame this simply by persevering and asking my parents for help when something I tried wouldn't work out. For example if you look at the last couple steps on my sketch compared to the last couple steps of my actual machine they are completely different.
My greatest strength during this project was just my understanding of the content. I understood everything we were taught about the six simple machines and you can see this throughout the whole machine and how I present each simple machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVqKC48PRg&feature=youtu.be
The conservation of energy is a law in physics that states energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be altered and change forms. A spot in my rube Goldberg machine where this is demonstrated very clearly is when the ping pong ball comes out of the shoe box and hits the cap that is connected to a string. The cap is not moving at first, it does not have any energy, but when it rolls and falls off the platform it IS using energy. It did not create that energy, it just transferred from the ping pong ball rolling through the box into the cap.
Energy transfer is exactly what it sounds like, the energy just transfers, moves through, one object to the next through the change in heat, mass, or work. This is demonstrated very clearly in my Rube Goldberg in the very first step when I drop the hacky sack on the inclined plane. The energy is being transferred through the work of my arm into the rolling of the hacky sack.
The six simple machines are just functions that reduce the effort and work a person has to put into something. They are important because they create the ability to preform tasks beyond normal capability.
If you look closely each step of my Rube Goldberg machine is one of each of the six simple machines. Throughout the whole machine you'll find an inclined plane, a wedge, a lever, a wheel, a screw and a pulley system.
We were also required to have a "challenge step" somewhere in our machine. I chose the mystery box option, for this choice I just had to somehow make my ball go trough this box for a certain amount of seconds without the viewer seeing whats going on inside the box. My box just had a bunch of zig-zag ramps. it goes in the top and down to the right, then to the left, back to the right and so on until it comes out the side after a couple seconds.
My number one take away from this project is that the six simple machines are used in a lot more daily functions than I assumed. Just learning about the machines made me realize this because they were always on my mind for a couple days and while I was trying to built my machines I would notice one of the machines already working in an object I wanted to use.
I faced my greatest challenge throughout this project when I was trying to actually build my machine. I had to go through a lot of trial and error because something that I planned out in my mind wouldn't actually work how it needed to so I kept brainstorming different functions throughout the entire process. I overcame this simply by persevering and asking my parents for help when something I tried wouldn't work out. For example if you look at the last couple steps on my sketch compared to the last couple steps of my actual machine they are completely different.
My greatest strength during this project was just my understanding of the content. I understood everything we were taught about the six simple machines and you can see this throughout the whole machine and how I present each simple machine.