Final blog reflection week 34

This year in physics has been a challenging yet great year. As science being my worst subject I was challenged to be on top of my game and pay close attention throughout this year in physics. By me working to excel in this in physics class this year became ranked as on of the best science class I've ever taken. Reasons why it became one of the best was strongly because of Mr. Abud, his understanding and commitment to the students and his craft as a teacher was remarkable. Even though I was often frustrated by all the projects we had this year it made up because it was joy to be I'm the class even if it was science FIRST HOUR -_- (which is a challenge of its own). Using the 4 star grading scale as used in any of Mr. Abud's classes I would rank the 2012/13 1st hour physics class as a 3.78601236...yes that was necessary. My ability and my groups capability to complete lab experiments and whiteboards assignment grew over the year because we all became comfortable with our teacher, our peers in the class, and the class room environment. I like how we were able to work in groups for our projects when direction, but honestly my favorite project this year was the spaghetti bridge only because that was one of our first projects and I worked with Taylor and Hannah and because we excelled on this project. One of the worst projects for me was the next ins cradle just because I sucked at it. The blog app and google drive was like my best friend in physics I loved how we were able to use our devices. I blogging reflections we kinda bad just because I waited the last minute to create them sometimes (oops) even though I began the year great with the blogs. But the one thing I hated were the weekly assessments just because they were every week and I didn't know how to study for them but my skill of assessment taking improved in some areas. I also didn't like the grading system with having to go to a separate website to check out grades but I liked how we got personal feedback from grades and were able to reassess when needed. But if I had to change anything it would be assessment taking ever two weeks instead the end of each week and it would be more in class projects. Other than that I appreciate this year in Physics so thank you Mr. Abud and have a great summer.

Week 32

This week in physics was a scaring yet entertaining week. This week we began looking at static electricity,electrons and air particles. Our first experiment of the week was cutting up pieces of tape, paper and aluminum foil and recording there reaction to each other. We observed an recorded whether each attached or repelled when putting the tape near each material. We recorded if the charges were positively, negatively, or neutral charged. This week we also witness a magnetic ball as some were intimidated by it when we saw how it works. The magnetic ball is a static electricity ball that sends off a electric shock. People were able to test out the call as we watched people's hair fly up and shock others with one hand in the ball and as others touched them. I was even able to touch the ball and was in a train line with two others, we noticed that the magnetic ball electricity can go through people and still send a shock. Anyway certain people also went to Cedar Point as a class physics trip. We had so much fun as my group and I went on a scavenger hunt around cedar point and road roller coasters. My group consisted of Taylor, Hannah, Mary, Carmen and I and we finished the hung in success and learned things about the coasters/rides that we didn't know.

Don't mind the picture and our looks from the heat and frustration lol....it was sort of off guard.

week 33

This week we began a speaker project of getting into groups and creating a styrofoam plate speaker. This was a on class project where we were given this supples and directions and told to create a speaker and a 6 slide presentation. We looked up in further detail of how to create the styrofoam plates. This was our main focus this week as we were coming down to the last days of this school year. In our research of getting the speaker to work we learned that the speaker contains a permanent and electromagnetic magnet. It is a metal coil that allows a electric flow through the coils. In testing our speaker we had to connect wires and coils together with clamps and attach it in the phone headphone jack so we can test the speakers. We were trying to test and see if we can hear the music through the styrofoam speaker. On our first try we couldn't really really hear the music therefore we made some adjustments and was able to play the music through the styrofoam speaker and hear it clearly. We were all really excited with our success and although we finished out presentation we weren't able to present this week so we plan on presenting Monday.