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Computer Science is Changing Everything

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In the video, I was very interested in the company Brett worked for. I noticed that the company he worked for (0Power) was made to save energy and I wanted to learn more. Some of the questions I had were, “Does 0Power only save energy from particular things?”, “Is the company very well known?”, “Are there a lot of other companies competing with them to be the most well known energy saving company?”, and “Do there products run off of solar power?”. In addition to those questions, after Brett told us that 0Power had saved the energy of about 1.1 million cars, I had a few questions. I was wondering how much he thought that saved energy impacted the world? And also, did that energy get stored or go to other use? If it went to other use, what was it used for? I think it is amazing how computer science is allowing people to make products like these and I hope it continues to impact our world in a great way!

Maglev final post #3

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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.