Reflective Blog #6

Reflective Blog #6

This is my sixth blog already and its gone by so fast and I've been learning so much and having lots of fun doing so.  Last Monday we blew Luke up.  Actually we blew up the bag underneath him and raised him up nusing the power of pressure.  When we put more particles in the bag they needed a place to go and the bag grew and grew until Lukes back wasn't even touching the table anymore.  When there are more particles they hit the bag harder and expanded it.  We also decided that we should also make molecules have some sort of motion.  We also worked on this Tuesday befor the PVTn labs

This was are molecule diagram of luke on the bag

Tuesday was when the fun really began with the PVTn labs. But as soon as we tryed to start logger pro magicallly removed itself from the computers and we were left to do nothing for the rest of class but talk.  Then on Wednesday it finally happened  we started the lab.  Fist lab we did was the pressure vs volume, we learned ho the more volume you have the less pressure you have and vise versa but this is proportional to the amount of volume and there can't be zero pressure and there can't be zero volumeso it makes a curved line.  This prinicpal we learned was called bolye's law.  Then after that lab we did the pressure vs number or puffs.  This graph had the shape we expected it to as it went followed our predictions.

On friday we did the last and final PVTn lab, this was centered around tempuature we set up the graph which was slightly more complicated than the other ones to set up.  Then my group started and after the first two we realised tha some thing wasn't right with our data and you told us that we would just have to steal someone else's data because the seal was broken.  But we did learn about kalvin and absolute zero where kalvin hits zero pressure and there would be no particle movement, which would be cool.  The number for absolut zero was something around -273 and that we have come so cose to absolute zero by margins of a fraction of a degree

On Friday we talked about how we're going to do the formal lab report and we started to print the data on the laptops and talking about when this big project is due and other logisticy stuff.  We had slight technicanl issues printing the graph but all was resolved.

I saw this article in the new issue of Popular science and thought you would like it.   http://www.popsci.com/z-machines-hydrogen-gambit