This assignment consisted of working with an online lab and recording/analyzing the lab in our textbook. For each of the four parts in the lab we had to record data and answer questions about the topic. The four topics were net force, motion, acceleration, and friction. In the first lab on net force, we had small, medium, and large humans, with the smallest human being weakest in newtons and the largest being highest in newtons. From this portion we had different humans stand on opposite sides and play tug of war, then we recorded the speed and the newtons either going right or left.
For the final portion in the lab we were given multiple objects of different weight that a robot would push on. This was the most complex lab since we could control the friction, newtons, and mass. The lab would also give the acceleration in m/s squared. I was most proud of the work I did on this portion about friction due to it being the most complicated part and also allowing room for your own experiments. We got to implement a = Δv/Δt. From this task the most challenging part was in the create your own section. Where we added how much friction, weight, and force we wanted. I found this difficult since we wanted to change each equation up enough for 8 experiments. If I were to restart this assignment, I would have left more room on my lab notebook for the questions. Our lab notebooks are very precise with pages and tables. I would have condensed the table to leave more space for my reasoning behind forces of motion. Physics is a whole new genre to me that makes sense (sometimes). I know in the future in college or even in life, physics will give us reasoning when I ask questions like if I am accelerating at 2 seconds a minute when will I get to the finish line a mile away. |
The main 21st century skill that I think compliments this project is the information skill. The information skill is definitely relative to KCS as it combines a lot of technology in learning. This project being online based allowed us to participate in experiments and exact measurements that would be difficult to portray otherwise. With this being online, peers and I needed to understand the portrayed information online in relation to real life scenarios.
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