Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Mission To Mars Lab #6

Today I worked with Sam and Unity on Recovery Systems, and our task was to create a working parachute that would safely land a sand bag to the ground.The relation to Newtons 3rd law = Balance between Gravity pulling down and Air pushing

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Monday, October 22, 2007

Mission to Mars Lab #5

Today me, Louisa, and Unity worked on launching to the moon.


Friday, October 19, 2007

Lab #4

For my forth lab I worked with Unity and Emma S. What we did was, we had a robot that we had to program to do certain tasks, Such as pick this up, turn around, bring this back, etc. We did this using RoboLab which as you probably guessed is a robotics and programing... program. My group successfully finished our tasks. And in the end everything work just fine. LOL

Lab # 3

For my third lab I worked with Sam and Lilly. What we did was have a conference call on Skype which is a computer program were you can talk to someone in another room, state, etc. Our task was to build a piece of a robot and then describe to a partner how to build a different robot. I think this relates to our mission to mars project because we might have to do something similar to this when we are on mars and we have to complete tasks like this one but bigger. So I think that this was good practice.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Me and Maddy's Africa Quiz



I Now Know Every Country In Africa

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Playing on the moon

If you were playing soccer on the moon and the acceleration due to gravity was 1.6m/s2 it would be very different from playing on earth where the a=9.8m/s2. First of all you wuld weigh less and you would be and if you to jump you would stay in the air for a while. and when you kick the ball because of Newton's first law you would be trown back a little bit and the ball would be thrown out a long way and it would take longer to land because there is not a lot of force pushing on it. Those are some of the differences you would see if you were playing soccer on the moon.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Mission to Mars, Lab #2

For my second mission to mars lab I worked with Kimmy and Honore to build a robot that could go forward, backward, etc. and also to pick up the object that was placed in front of it. When we put it together we started at the base and worked out. First we put together all the wheels which kind of related to Newton's first law, (for every action there is and equal and opposite reaction) because at first all the wheels were turning in different directions so the car was just going in a circle. then we made the arm but the hardest part was putting everything together because sometimes thing didn't always go together, but eventually we finished and our project was successful..!!!

Mission to Mars, Lab #1

For my first Lab Yesterday me and Alice built a thrust structure out of Popsicle sticks and a hot glue gun that could hold a empty soda bottle that was being launched into the air. Our model was successful and the bottle was lanced into the air all three times we tried it.