For our physics class, we did an experiment about the power of force. In this experiment, my group and I decided to drop two different sized marbles and see which one would touch the ground first. We recorded everything we received from the experiment on a lab report.
Freshman Monument:
For our engineering class, we are building a freshman monument. It is a class project that we will be taking to our new campus next year. Everyone came up with ideas and the whole class voted on what idea was best. We decided to build a miniature bridge, along with miniature fences with our names on it, and rocks designed however we wanted it.
Ted Project:
Our next project we did for Physics/Engineering is the Ted Project, it is also known as the Wind Turbine Project. We created wind turbines in groups of four. The materials given to us were styrofoam, cardboard, a hot glue gun, metal wiring, etc. We went through many trials and prototypes to get the perfect turbine. Our wind turbine has produced 11.6 millivolts or had successfully spun at a voltage of 11.6 mV.
Headphones:
For our "Be Heard Project" we were assigned to create our own headphones. Headphones have many parts such as the joining piece, cone, diaphragm, etc. We were assigned to design the outside of our headphones to spread a message connected to our social justice topic.
Bottle Rocket
In Physics class, we were assigned to build a bottle rocket for our "Lost in Space" theme. We placed an egg in our nose cone that was part of the rocket, and made sure it didn't crack after it launched. The parts of the bottle rocket that we have are the wings/fins, the bottle, the nose cone, and cushion that will protect the egg from cracking. Before we started building our bottle rocket, we did some tests with alka-seltzers. We made our nose cone and wings/fins out of card stock. We the attached them onto the film canister with tape. We filled our canisters half way with water because if we filled it up fully, the canister would explode and there would be too much pressure. Lastly, we then added the two alka-seltzers in the canister and closed the cap as quick as possible. We flipped the bottle, placed it in the container, and watched the film canister launch. We attempted it a couple of times to make sure how our fins/wings and our nose cone would look like on our actual bottle rocket. We then brainstormed ideas for each part of our rocket.