My Cultural Universals and a Map of Scarsdale

Politics

The rules that are in my house are to only do thirty minutes of anything on a device (except homework.) Also to do homework before doing something on a device, eating dinner before desert, and to have atleast three fruits or vegetables before desert. Also, before I can either have desert or do anything on a device, I have to practice playing the piano for fourty five minutes each day.

 

Social Aspects

School, math, reading, writing, board games, some video games and more.

 

Beliefs

I have no beliefs.

 

Cultural Arts

My favorite movie is “Revenge of The Sith”. My favorite book is “Tigerheart’s Shadow”, My favorite song is “Centuries”, and I play the piano. I also play basketball.

 

Economics
I use a car to get places,and to get food I go to Balducci’s.

 

 

Maglev final post #3

Our first track design was to have four strip and six disk magnets on the track. While our trains first design was to have one strip magnet on each side of the train with four disk magnets. It was a lot of magnets and we couldn’t even fit that much.

 

The problem that our group faced was that our train was to heavy so it didn’t levitate. Also, we faced another problem. It was that the track magnets were not lined up with the train magnets so it didn’t levitate. So we revised these problems by making an even amount of magnets on the train and the track. (One magnet on each side of the track and train.) But the amount of magnets on the track wasn’t enough to make the train levitate. So we added one more strip magnet to each side of the track. Now there were two strip magnets on each side of the track. This worked.

The final design of the track was to have two layers of strip magnets on each side of the track and for the train, only one strip magnet on each side of the train. This worked because the track magnets were lined up with the trains and that the train wasn’t too heavy.

 

The thoughts I had while designing our maglev train were… being very stressed and overwhelmed by all the ideas my group had, another couple thoughts I had were thinking about what to improve, and finaly, being pleased with the amount of progress overall. This was our journey through the EDP experience.

 

 

 

 

 

Technology is…

Technology is something created by humans to solve a problem.

 

The object that I observed is an Ice Cube Tray and it is technology because it helps you carry around ice cubes. This solves a problem.

The problem that the Ice Cube Tray solves is holding ice cubes. For example it can carry more ice cubes than your hand and it is a convenient way to carry ice cubes. You don’t have to carry ice cubes in your hands because of this.

This object makes life better because you’re hands won’t get cold while carrying ice cubes and you can carry more ice cubes.

The Ice Cube Tray is made out of plastic.

 

 

 

Maglev Post #2

Today while working on our maglev train my group realized that we had to much disk magnets on our track. There were four disk magnets on our track and we realized that we didn’t need any. We took out all of the disk magnets and a little bit before that we put on more strip magnets on the track so that each side of the track had two strip magnets on top of each other. This was all successful. We tried to add one more magnet on each side of the train so that there would be two strip magnets on each side. We thought it would even things out but it was unsuccessful. So we just took one strip magnet off from each side and it was successful.

 

While we were working, putting one more strip magnet on each side of the train was unsuccessful and we took off one strip from each side to make it successful. But what did we learn from our mistake? We learned that the train cannot be too heavy to levitate above the track and that the train magnets have to be lined up with the track magnets to be successful.

 

For our next time that we work on our maglev trains we want to improve the height of the levitation so that when we add weight to the train it will have a better chance of levitating.

 

 

Maglev post #1

A maglev train is a piece of technology that runs on magnets and levitates above the track. This allows it to have extreme speed. We made mini maglev trains and this is what happened so far. My groups idea for the track was to put four strips of magnets on the track and to put eight other disk magnets. For the train, we put four little strips of magnet and tried to get our train to levitate above the track by using repultion. For example, we had the trains magnets using the north poles and the tracks too. We hoped that it would levitate but we had to make a few adjustments first.

The adjustments that we made that worked were taking two strips away from the track and all the disk magnets so that there was only one strip on each side of the track. When we took of two strips from the train it was even with the track so it started to levitate. But that wasn’t enough to get it to glide from one side of the track to the other. Also we were trying to get it to do that by only giving the train a little push. We tried to add three disk magnets to the train but that was unsuccessful so we decided that we should use one. That was successful. 

I thought that the experience was great when we collaborated and also took in and tried others ideas. But sometimes we disagreed and I think that we could of done a little bit better in thinking about others ideas, but it was a phenomenal  experience over all.