Independent Project Reflection: Catching Fire
This project was interesting to me because we got to design our own project, and it was fun because we were able to figure out our problems on our own. The purpose for this project was to do an experiment that would help you if you were stranded in a cold winter environment. I learned a lot about how density effects heat transfer, how to make a controlled experiment with actual visible results, and how to work in a group with two people who don't really get Personally it was a fulfilling for me because I felt very independent. My role in this project was to be the person that researched our topic, and wrote our final assessment and project report. I think i did contribute to our project quite a bit because I wrote down most of the data and results from the actual experiment, and then assessed it, which I think was very important to our group. I also think I took the role of a leader, and knew how to figure out problems when we ran into them.
Rube goldburg project reflection
Hi internet, this is my reflection of our semester long project in science. We made rubegoldbergs by building a frame first out of wood and constructing a sturdy base for our rube. In this first step we were behind because no on ein our group knew how or what to do first in constructing our rube. Then we added our steps and wrote a description that was five pages long to show our understanding of the physics consepts behind our rube. Our analysis was the hardest part to accomplish in my oppinio, because it had a lot of calculations and equations involved.
Our rube makes an instant party. It turns on a strobe machine, a radio, and fills a punch cup. At least it is supposed to.
I learned the use of time is necessary to create good quality work. I also figured out that to create something you're proud of, you have to put your all into it. My group and i had hard time not just talking and having fun, and having real work time, but by the end I think we put in the necessary actions to achieve good work. We had trouble making the part where our ball bearing goes through a cupcake maker into a bucket, we had trouble with the use of newton's first law, rotational inertia. We couldn't figure out how have one of the marbles on a slope stay still, but still be able to roll when hit.Our rube is energy efficient and takes only one interference in the first step of our rube to start it off. On way our rube is not energy efficient is that we have a step where the energy is being transferred through free fall due to gravity and it does not gain as much force as we thought it would so it may not turn on the radio like we expected.Rotational inertia plays the biggest part in creating an energy efficient rube. We use it in most of our steps as a major player. The hardest part in the project was understanding the curriculum at hand and trying to get the math equations involved. Actually I had a couple struggles in this project, another was the construction of our rube because we had to get help for most of the wood working and framework and it set us back. I think we did push ourselves though. We came in for project application many days and worked really hard,I think I contributed the most in keeping us focused and working, because my group was all my friends and we enjoy each others company so sometimes it's hard to just work.
Our rube makes an instant party. It turns on a strobe machine, a radio, and fills a punch cup. At least it is supposed to.
I learned the use of time is necessary to create good quality work. I also figured out that to create something you're proud of, you have to put your all into it. My group and i had hard time not just talking and having fun, and having real work time, but by the end I think we put in the necessary actions to achieve good work. We had trouble making the part where our ball bearing goes through a cupcake maker into a bucket, we had trouble with the use of newton's first law, rotational inertia. We couldn't figure out how have one of the marbles on a slope stay still, but still be able to roll when hit.Our rube is energy efficient and takes only one interference in the first step of our rube to start it off. On way our rube is not energy efficient is that we have a step where the energy is being transferred through free fall due to gravity and it does not gain as much force as we thought it would so it may not turn on the radio like we expected.Rotational inertia plays the biggest part in creating an energy efficient rube. We use it in most of our steps as a major player. The hardest part in the project was understanding the curriculum at hand and trying to get the math equations involved. Actually I had a couple struggles in this project, another was the construction of our rube because we had to get help for most of the wood working and framework and it set us back. I think we did push ourselves though. We came in for project application many days and worked really hard,I think I contributed the most in keeping us focused and working, because my group was all my friends and we enjoy each others company so sometimes it's hard to just work.