Electromagnetic Energy GenerationThe device I have chosen to construct is an electromagnetic energy generator, or one could look at it as an electromagnet mill. I have a bolt spooled with about 12 feet of copper wire. The copper wire has two ends that extend out to the positive and negative output of a battery. This power generation running through the bolt gives it magnetism. I then constructed a turbine placed on a baring to rotate when met with the magnetic pull of the battery. To do said action, I fixed metal balls the size of marbles on the ends of each fin on the turbine. I decided to use plane iron balls instead of magnets because of force complications. When you magnetize a bolt or any metal, the coil produces the north and south poles and the ends of the metals produce very unbalanced poles. If I were to use magnets on the fins of the turbine, then the opposite pole to the magnet could slow down or stop the rotation from being to strong. And having the same poles facing each other could also be to strong and stop the turbine from spinning. With plane metal, there is an even balance between push and pull for both poles and it would not matter which pull is facing where.
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Potatoe Battery
The way that this battery works is actually very similar to the functionality of most batteries. You have the anode, being the positively charged metal, in this case it would be the zinc disk. And then you have the cathode which is the negatively charged metal ,which is our copper. When you have a positive metal next to a negative metal, the negatively charged copper will want to strip all of the electrons from the positively charged zinc. This is only possible through a travel medium of electrolytes which a potato is rich with. This salt bridge allows the electrons to flow and create current which will generate voltage. Yet only one potatoes battery can produce no more than .8 volts. Meaning you would need over 150 linked potato batteries, to run a standard electric light bulb.
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Satirical Rube Goldberg Machines
Project Description:
For this assignment, we have constructed Rube Goldberg machines with a satirical message integrated into them. A RGM is an overly complex sequence of machines that ultimately complete a simple task such as pouring a glass of water or opening a door. The task that my RGM performed was an arm delivering a punch to a dummy. Project ReflectionEnergy:
The conservation of energy is when energy can not be stopped or cut off. Yet altered by another force. You can’t make it impossible for a ball to not roll down a hill, but you can store potential energy in that ball by placing it right at the threshold of rolling down. Around three weeks ago when we began this project, I already knew how I was going to structure my machines for my RGM. When an object is higher up from sea level, it has higher potential energy. Meaning that once it falls and hits the medium, there is then going to be a high amount of kinetic energy. So I placed and set up my RGM to start as high as possible and use gravity to my advantage. Energy transfer is the process of energy being relocated to another system or object, like cooking a pizza in the oven. One of the biggest issues I came across was trying to find a way of transferring enough energy to the final machine to deliver the upper cut. The machine used for the finale was a pulley system which needed a weight to be dropped as a counterweight to the arm. So I used a dominoes system to build up kinetic energy and tug on the weight at the end of the row of books to pull down the weight and lift the arm. Mechanics: A simple machine is a one part mechanism that is used to cut workload in half or more, and transfer energy from us to somewhere else. These are extremely important to society because we have been using them since the dawn of man, to increase our chances of survival and our productivity. Whether it’s a knife that is used to cut an apple, or the stairs you walk up to get to a second story. We use simple machines on a daily basis if not hourly. The six simple machines: Wedge, screw, inclined plane, wheel and axle, lever, and pulley systems. In the beginning of my rube, the first two machines are used almost simultaneously. The fidget toy has a ball bearing within it acting as a wheel and axle, and the two pieces of cardboard attached to the top are used as a lever to exert force into the second marble. From that point on there are a total of 5 inclined planes used throughout the rube. My fourth simple machine activates when the marble leaves the time warp box, knocks over the books, and tugs on the weight which falls and lifts the arm; a pulley system. The fifth machine is right within the finale, which would be a wedge. A wedge is defined as a material object that splits/separates matter when force is exerted through it. The arm behaves as a wedge by separating the dummy away from the “Technology” structure when the punch is delivered. The sixth machine was one that had taken place prior to the finale but was out of view until shown at the end; a screw. A raised inclined thread wrapping around a cylinder or exterior objects angled to travel up/down. As a screw is driven into something, that “something” is climbing up the screw at the same time, or vice versa. So at the very end, I show a 720 degree spiral which represents the same traits and behaviors as a screw. As the marble rolls down the spiral, the spiral is moving up and away from the marble at the same time. For my challenge step I chose the “Time Warp Box”. In which you must have a marble enter said box and stay within it for at least ten seconds before it exits again. I chose this challenge step because of the interest that it would retain. Others do not know what is happening inside the box and only hear the sounds it produces while not knowing when the marble will shoot out. Most importantly, this would only highlight and define the finale adding mystery and a requirement of imagination. Learning and growth: After completing this project, I now have a new fascination and appreciation for how mechanisms work. Beforehand if something were to occur or I could do something such as balance a pencil on the tip of a pen. As opposed to a “wow that’s weird” mentality, the physics and energy distribution would make sense and heighten my thirst for discovery and learning to see what else can be done or made when this knowledge is applied. The biggest challenge was trying to imagine or brainstorm the energy needed for the finale to work. I have this rolling marble, and now I need to find a way to exert enough force through that into a counter weight of nearly three pounds. My original idea I believe would have never worked. I thought that I could have the marble drop out of the time warp box and into the bucket counter weight of a pulley system which will tip a tennis ball to fall into another counter weight of a pulley system which will lift the arm. I knew when I finally was constructing my rube, that this was near to impossible to replicate from my schematic. But then I thought, I could have the marble drop out of the mystery box and hit the edge of a counter weight which will be enough kinetic energy to tip and cause it to fall over and commence the finale. This was an improvement, but there were still a couple of things wrong with it. At this point I had run out of space beneath the rube for me to use gravity to my advantage for storing potential energy. And if I did have enough space to do so, it wouldn’t make too much of a difference for the energy exertion issue from the marble to the weight that I had. In order for the impact of the marble to tip the weight, I would need to practically balance it at the very edge of the stand it rested on nearly at the typing point, to where if you breathed on it it would fall. Then I went back and observed what I had created, and realized that I had already solved this issue; the dominoes. When the marble rolled down the inclined plane and off the ramp to hit the dominoes. The falling dominoes exerted force into the card deck, which exerted force into the pocket book, then the journal, then the book, and so on. I simply just needed to replicate this for the gap from the time warp box to the finale; so I did. And now with this new way, I can exert as much energy as I want through the increasing size of books to pull on the counter weight. With the finale book set at the end of the row, I tied a string to the book and to the counter weight to pull on when the book fell. My greatest strength was problem solving. The second we were told we were going to make Rube Goldberg machines I had already visualized the finale. A dummy getting hit with a satirical message behind it. So I went to work and put it all together. As each step or machine had their hiccup, I readjusted the setting and continued. I solved one issue after the other until we came to the finale; more so, the finale working. |
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Biology Project and Climate Change |
First of all, climate is the long term conditions in weather and moisture of and area or ecosystem. Climate change is a natural fluctuation between temperature and moisture based of the earths weather patterns. How ever global warming is different from that. Climate change is natural, global warming is a man made issue in the heating of the globe by our carbon emission weakening the spheres of the earth and creating a stronger green house effect to out environment.
Because we are causing climate change to move forward at a much faster rate than for the environment and living species to adapt to. The green house effect is getting stronger and the environment is loosing it's natural climate conditions too quickly around the globe. Depleting it's natural resources and depriving it's inhabitants of life.
Our bio plastic is Eco friendly and made of natural biodegradable resources such as starches, water, and recycled paper fibers. It degrades in under 6 months going against exposure moisture and bacterial decay; rather than THOUSANDS of years. Production for these plastics are a microscopic dent and fraction of the Carbon foot print that Polyethylene terephthalate leaves. Meaning that we could reduce our carbon emission for plastic by 90% by now and 2050.
The biggest growth my group and I have had was the making of the plastic. We went through at least 10 different recipes over the following weeks we had to experiment until we came to a sustainable plastic that was strong and could take shape and bend when boiled down. And we spent a total of a full day and a half of work hours cooking, failing, searching, and cooking again. This was the definition of trial and error.
The greatest strength of this project for me personally was knowing the work that we were putting in and having the ability to start over and over if something didn't work. The functionality's of this project allowed us to represent our work and research visually and we can and could have kept on going and going; refining our outcomes and what we made for the best possible product. And by the end of the work time, we had physical variations of this plastic and cups and plates. Imagine if we had a year. And we made that only having a month and a half to two months of work time. Our consistency was our greatest strength.
Because we are causing climate change to move forward at a much faster rate than for the environment and living species to adapt to. The green house effect is getting stronger and the environment is loosing it's natural climate conditions too quickly around the globe. Depleting it's natural resources and depriving it's inhabitants of life.
Our bio plastic is Eco friendly and made of natural biodegradable resources such as starches, water, and recycled paper fibers. It degrades in under 6 months going against exposure moisture and bacterial decay; rather than THOUSANDS of years. Production for these plastics are a microscopic dent and fraction of the Carbon foot print that Polyethylene terephthalate leaves. Meaning that we could reduce our carbon emission for plastic by 90% by now and 2050.
The biggest growth my group and I have had was the making of the plastic. We went through at least 10 different recipes over the following weeks we had to experiment until we came to a sustainable plastic that was strong and could take shape and bend when boiled down. And we spent a total of a full day and a half of work hours cooking, failing, searching, and cooking again. This was the definition of trial and error.
The greatest strength of this project for me personally was knowing the work that we were putting in and having the ability to start over and over if something didn't work. The functionality's of this project allowed us to represent our work and research visually and we can and could have kept on going and going; refining our outcomes and what we made for the best possible product. And by the end of the work time, we had physical variations of this plastic and cups and plates. Imagine if we had a year. And we made that only having a month and a half to two months of work time. Our consistency was our greatest strength.
Info Graphic of Adolescent Drinking
Reflection and Project Description
Project Description
This Project was to collect data over the topics of issues, sprouts, or occurrence in adolescents and their behavior. The topic I chose for this project was to find the percentage and cause of teen drinking under 21. And as it turns out, about 17% of teens from ages 12 to 17 consume alcohol on a steady basis. I chose this topic to uncover the pure terror of the reality in which the children of America are drinking, and have possible and easy access to alcohol. This topic to me is a matter that is not okay for us to indoor and let go, and must be monitored and restricted immediately.
Reflection
The biggest challenge for me during this was to find several reliable sources. After two weeks of research, I gathered data from many websites and found that there (percentage/number data) was slightly different from each other. And to get the most accurate answer and data, I estimated the percentages of teen drinkers in America and found the average.
After all of the needed data was collected and displayed, I found the formatting of the info graphic was my biggest success. I wanted to create a format that was very bold and eye catching, and with this I used many forms of charts and graphs to display causes and percentages. I had time to re look over everything I created, and I found my work to be a result composed of a big title and chart, bold numbers, and few to little words other than what was on the data formations.
The biggest component that was lacking in information was the why to this occurrence. I would go back and have a small information section of what the biggest causes were for teen drinking. And even though I was very proud of the visualization of the information, I would have made it more informative with composed information. Over all, with this project I have found many informative functions in making an eye catching visualization of data. And I have pulled away with a better set of mind to crafting the best possible, and informative info graphics.
This Project was to collect data over the topics of issues, sprouts, or occurrence in adolescents and their behavior. The topic I chose for this project was to find the percentage and cause of teen drinking under 21. And as it turns out, about 17% of teens from ages 12 to 17 consume alcohol on a steady basis. I chose this topic to uncover the pure terror of the reality in which the children of America are drinking, and have possible and easy access to alcohol. This topic to me is a matter that is not okay for us to indoor and let go, and must be monitored and restricted immediately.
Reflection
The biggest challenge for me during this was to find several reliable sources. After two weeks of research, I gathered data from many websites and found that there (percentage/number data) was slightly different from each other. And to get the most accurate answer and data, I estimated the percentages of teen drinkers in America and found the average.
After all of the needed data was collected and displayed, I found the formatting of the info graphic was my biggest success. I wanted to create a format that was very bold and eye catching, and with this I used many forms of charts and graphs to display causes and percentages. I had time to re look over everything I created, and I found my work to be a result composed of a big title and chart, bold numbers, and few to little words other than what was on the data formations.
The biggest component that was lacking in information was the why to this occurrence. I would go back and have a small information section of what the biggest causes were for teen drinking. And even though I was very proud of the visualization of the information, I would have made it more informative with composed information. Over all, with this project I have found many informative functions in making an eye catching visualization of data. And I have pulled away with a better set of mind to crafting the best possible, and informative info graphics.