8-24-09 Scribe Post.

Today in Physics, we turned in our FCI worksheet and Bogus worksheet. We also went over the Bogus worksheet just discussing in general why everything was impossible. Afterward we worked on getting data for our Position vs. Time Graphs with a Ticker Timer and a Buggy in groups of three or four. Our Buggy was named "Gangsta Mobile". We created two sets of data. For the first we placed a meter stick down and put the buggy in a parrallel line next to it. We then gave each person in our a group a job. One person was the timer and the other people would markwhere the buggy was at after 1, 2, 3, 4, and, 5 seconds Then we turned on the buggy at the same time we started. Then the timer would call out the seconds when they occured and the markers would line up where the buggy was when the time was called. That way we could use time as a stable, independent, x variable and distance as a not as exact, dependent, y variable. Then we plotted both axis on graph paper and wrote an equation for the graph in a f(x)= mx + b format using units for the x value as well. The second graph was about attaching a piece of ticker tape to the buggy and putting the ticker tape under a ticker timer and turning both on and getting a strand of ticker tape with holes made by the ticker timer and being pulled along by the buggy. The ticker timer was 1/60th of a second so every six dots was 1 tenth of a second therfore we can see how far the car moves in one tenth of a second by measuring the distance betweeen six dots. Because the buggy is moving at a constant rate, the distance between the six remains the same for all dots on the paper. Then we created a graph for this experiment as well using the Guidelines given out by Mr. Burk. Everything we didn't finish with the graphs was for homework. Then we went into lockdown because a fugitive was on the run from the police and had escaped into the forest near our school. We were locked in our Physics Room for the rest of the third and fourth periods and spent time chilling and socializing with the Physics students of the class next to us. Finally they gave the all clear and the homework was Homework 2-A. Read 2.4, And finish the graphs. Next scribe is ... Gaston Quantz