Week 13

This week we learned about acceleration. Acceleration is when an object has an a steadily increasing velocity. On a graph it would show as a increasing or decreasing curved line going in one direction. Acceleration is seen in objects such as a falling ball or a flying bullet. The object starts at a starting position of 0, then begins to start accelerating to a faster and faster velocity. Its obviously important to know how acceleration works because there are so many things in our everyday life that accelerates. When im in a Mustang 5.0, and im about to race a Camero SS, i know im going to win because SVT designed my car better so i can accelerate faster, which means my velocity will increase at a faster rate. The equation is really complicated to find the the change in velocity and im going to be honest i dont know it but i know it exists. Overall, i like what were learning. I watch alot of mythbusters so the acceleration thing always comes up.

Week 11

While building the bridge, i learned alot of things. I learned that you dont always need the "strongest stuff" but its more about how you build it. Giving the material more flex is better than having a large stiff pile. I liked how some of the students showed how much it would really cost to build the bridge they made ib real life, and showed how they made it. I also found it interesting that some noodles held up better than some، such as aged vs new. Overall, the bridge build was a very useful project for discovering new methods of performing a build of a what was thought of as a simple project. Along sidr the bridge project, we leaned about how unbalanced objects react. That when an object is unbalanced, the effect is typically a breakage, drop, or movment of some sort. For instance, we watched a video of how a poorly built bridge was made and how it having unbalanced forces acting on it caused it to fail.

Week 9

This week we learned about the center of gravity and how it affects the balance of an object. We learned that the center of gravity isnt an exact center of an object, but a center of balance in an object, for example if a person bends down and touches their toes, they create a center of gravity in a rectangular shape in the space between the arms and the body. We started this unit the week before but continued more this week. I found this info very useful because now i know why certain positions make a person unbalanced which will be useful when trying to fool with someone. We also Learned about equal and balanced forces, for example the 3 weights that were tied to string. They were not in opposite directions, but each two balanced the other one. The peace symbole best represents what it looked like and how the balanced worked. Its a easy subject to understand but hard to explain over a blog. I found it a very productive week for sure. It was also helpful seeing this lession in action when two students were pushing against each other with foreometers to see how each person moves and how the unbalanced forces moved them.

Week 7

This week we learned about force, weight, and mass. We learned the relationship between weight and mass, that weight is your actual force being pulled by earth and your mass is what your made up of. I feel like when it comes to working out, now that Mr.Abud explaned these concepts, that people should be more inclined to gain mass than weight, becausw weight is just force being pulled down. Id rather be 6"2 and 190 pounds and have more muscle mass than someone that weighs 290 and has the same muscle mass because wight is just more presure being forced on your body, so why would someone want to be heavy? Force comes in all forms: down, up, side to side, pull, push. Wind is a force, rolling a ball is a force. I also learned that objects like to stay in the motion that there in i.e if a ball is stopped, it wants to stay stopped. If it is rolling, it wants to continue rolling. The only reason why objects stop doing what they are doing is due to a force acting upon it. If a ball is rolling, the only thing stopping it will be friction, an object in front of it, or a pushing force like wind. I liked what we learned this week because it applys to everyday use so everything we learned is being reflected in day to day activities.

Week 5

After 5 weeks, im happy to say that i finally understand how the class will run, not that i didnt know before, but now i fully understand. I like the way thr class will be run, it seems more logical than how normal classes are run and i feel that given some time, most if not all people will be on board with it. Through out the week, i was grasping concepts a little better than how i was the prevous week, but after staying after school on thursday with Mr.Abud, i was fully preparied for the assesment on friday, which i felt like i completed flawlessly. We learned about how to put time vs distnace into graph and mathmatical form, using time vs distance and velocity graphs. I took a bunch of pictures but i cant upload them from my phone for some reason so hopefully i'll figure that out soon. The class on thursday went insane, for some reason everyone was just introduced to class physics and wanted to debate on how the class should be taught. All i know is im totally Set on how the class is being run and everyone should get on board or learn how.

Week 4 Reflection

Week 4 was more in depth into physics than any other week. We began to learn more about lessons such as velocity and displacment, both i understood very well by the end of the week. Im not sure if theres any concepts i missed, but we mainly learned about as i said before velocity, which is in a nut shell time vs distance. We did group activities and white boards that helped teach the lesson more in detailed which helped me out greatly. When the teacher uses real world examples to teach a lesson i really helps, like when we were standing in the hallway.

Week 3 Reflection

Through out this week, we began to learn less about the basics of the class and more on physics which what i wanted to see. We didn't have to memorize and download a crazy amount of apps like the week before, so that's a thumbs up. We were working in groups and learning to think and work like a group. Although it was educational to make graphs and such with a group, i was kind of hoping to gain more knowledge from the class on how to perform certain tasks as opposed to having my group work on it. There were a lot of lessons that i feel like should have been taught more in depth before we took an assessment on it, which i obviously didn't do well on. Enough with the bad things, i did learn some lessons. I learned that its easy to plot time vs position on a graph, as well as what a line of best fit is. But, the assessment did ask more complicated questions about plotting a graph that i felt like were not thoroughly taught through out the week. I dont remeber exact examples but their there. I feel like its still too early in the year to talk about things we learned, but next weeks blog would most likely end up alot more thorough. I also feel that im going to learn alot of useful lessons in this class but its going to take time to grasp all the new concepts. Im horrible at math, graphs, and technology. Physics (so far)= math+graphs. But i already talked about all this in the last post.

Week 2

Through out this week, we were taught a couple lessons that have some major importance. We've performed a lot of experiments that proved that the lessons we were taught, such as how we shouldn't ask questions on something we cant test like how  fast the Buggy's go. We don't have a radar gun, so we cant bother asking how fast it goes. Team work is an obvious lesson in all classes, but in Team Physics, we really put the words "team work" to the test. Most if not all project we have done so far involved groups to come together and work, as apposed to haven't silent work time. I guess that most students understood all the lessons we were taught, because they were so well proven and explained that they do work. Another lesson we learned was that one of the best ways to show our data was through a graph. To show how fast the Buggy's went, we made a graph with distance (centimeters) on the Y Axis and time (seconds) on the X Axis. With the wood blocks, we used length on the Y Axis and mass on the X Axis. The only concept that I'm yet to grab is the whole technology thing. Twitter, Blogs, all of that is not stuff that i do on a regular basis, and its going to take some time to actually get use to going on Blogs and twitter everyday. I guess the concept behind that is that it makes life easier on students, but that's only if the student actually uses, or even knows, those websites and apps. Some students like myself cant stand any kind of online connection websites, besides maybe Facebook due to how simple it is. But again, I'm sure your trying to make life easier on people and whether students want to use the Internet or paper to do notes is 100% up to them and having that option is looking to be proven effective, for now. The concept behind reflecting on what we did that day does seem like a more efficient way of teaching and if all teachers used that method, i would imagine better over all learning for everyone. When i go home, i just block out anything school related. Most students just go home and relax until 11:00pm and go to bed, not giving a care about school. But being asked by the teacher to think about what you learned seems like, at least to me, more beneficial. When you reflect on what you were taught that day, you remember it. And when you remember it, it becomes useful. Now if a teacher gives me a piece of paper that asks me a question about why water is wet, that doesn't make me think about what i learned, it just makes me think about why water is wet, nothing more. That's why i feel reflection and remembering is alot more effective than just thinking about answers, and Dr. Abud was clear on why he wanted to start this way of learning. This is not all i learned, but it gives you an idea of how i learned what i learned and how effectively it was taught which is what i think you wanted to hear. If there is anything i didn't touch down on just let me know, but don't put it on twitter or something because i most likely wont have the capability of finding it (twitter-disability).

Week One Reflection

     The first week of Physics was interesting. I learned a lot about how Sir teacher will be teaching and what concepts we will be learning, as well as learning everyone's name in the class. It seems that Sir teacher has his own way of teaching. As opposed to giving written homework, Sir teacher tells us to reflect on what we learned every day. There's a lot more technology in this class being used than all other classes combined.
     
     Aside from basic classroom rules and restrictions, the class was shown that teamwork,  observation, and critical thinking is a necessity  to be successful in Sir teachers room. Not needed to be said but the class seems like its going to be a lot different than any other class. Right off the bat, i'm making a blog about the class. I don't do blogs, for anything. So there's a good example of how different this is.
 
   Using Twitter, Instagram etc. are usually not allowed during class... Our homework, is to go on Twitter every night. I don't do Twitter either. What Wissam has learned from that? I learned that the concept this class is based upon may be crazy enough to work. In fact, it may end up being a much more efficient way of approaching school work than the traditional "white paper home work".