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.