Spreadsheets #2

We took a form to see what we liked as a person. I was really excited to see the results once I finished the form. It was actually really interesting!

Lots of people are the youngest sibling in their family, including me! 20% of us went to Heathcote Elementary School. It was a great school, and the teachers were really nice!

Most of us average around 5 feet in height. I am five feet 5 and 1/2 inches tall. Around 54% of us have a pet dog, with the next having no pets. From 1-10, most people think that Trader Joe’s is an 8. Honestly, I don’t really know what Trader Joe’s is like. I’ve been there, but my mom did all the shopping.

When people go shopping, most of them go to CVS to buy things. I usually buy gum, even though I’m not allowed to. When people go to eat, they go to Bagel Power for bagels and Italian Village for pizza. Bagel Power and Italian Village are amazing places to eat!

I’ve learned a lot about people as a general from this survey!

Spreadsheet #1

I will be researching about the state Idaho. 1. How big is the Asian population? 0.2%. 2. What are popular baby names in Idaho? Emma and Oliver. 3. How many people are female in Idaho? 49.9%

I looked up information about what is the poverty percentage in all 50 states of USA. The state in USA with the smallest percentage of people in poverty is New Hampshire. The state in USA with the largest percentage of people in poverty is Mississippi.

I learned that the most people immigrated in 1991, with 1,826,595 people immigrating! That’s a lot of people!

Animate Your Name

When I was deciding what to do for my name, the color changing code looked the coolest, so that’s what I chose for what my names should do. It was challenging for all the sprites to do the exact same. Sometimes I would forget to add a code to one sprite. I found it cool how I could use message broadcasts to make a sprite do something instead of tapping the screen multiple times. I like Eric’s project because I like how he used different kinds of letters for each letter.

Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone

Graham. Like the Graham cracker? No. Don’t worry. We’re not talking about the cracker. We’re talking about Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone!

You probably heard of the telephone. It’s the thing you call someone with. And Alexander Graham Bell invented it! Technically, he’s one of the inventors. Buttttt, whatever.

The actual definition of a telephone is “a telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly,” states Wikipedia.

The purpose of the telephone was to convert sound, typically and most efficiently, the human voice, into electric signals that are transmitted, via cables and other communication channels  to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user.

The invention of the telephone provided an important device for facilitating human communication. Now, no one needs to be side-by-side to actually talk to each other!

In 1880, it cost $9 to buy a telephone. That may not sound like a lot, but that was a lot back then, considering most people make $2-6 a week! I guess telephones are really important to cost that much!

The telephone in 1880. Looks pretty old fashioned to me.

Nikola Tesla and the Neon Lamp

Some people think Nikola Tesla invented the neon sign. But it’s really Georges Claude who invented it. (And yes, his name is spelled Georges, not George.)

Did Nikola Tesla invent the Tesla, then? Nope. That’s a different person. Then what did he invent? Well, he invented the neon lamp!

A neon lamp is a miniature gas discharge lamp. Simple as that.

How does a neon lamp work? “Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied (thin) neon or other gases.” says Wikipedia.

Or, in simpler terms, a neon lamp is a light bulb that can make many colors when Noble gasses are inside of the bulb.

Fun Fact: Neon signs are made out of neon lamps! Pretty cool, right?

The neon lamp itself. Not too shabby.

Benjamin Franklin and the Bifocals

Benjamin Franklin. A Founding Father of the USA. You probably heard of him. He’s famous! If you haven’t heard of him, well, I’ll… I’ll… I don’t know what I’ll do!

But, today we’re not gonna talk about him. We’re gonna talk about the Bifocals.

“Bifocals are eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers. Bifocals are commonly prescribed to people with farsightedness.” states Wikipedia.

Yup.

Bifocals are glasses.

Benjamin Franklin used his own invention, too.

Bifocals are commonly prescribed to people with presbyopia, which means farsightedness caused by loss of elasticity of the lens of the eye, occurring typically in middle and old age. Presbyopia was a condition Benjamin Franklin suffered.

But the Bifocals weren’t perfect.

Bifocals can cause headaches and even dizziness to some users. It could take a few weeks to adjust to the Bifocal glasses, and the Bifocal line could be too high.

Bifocals. It looks like something an old lady would wear. (No offense to old ladies reading this.)

But I guess nobody can make a perfect invention.

Thomas Edison and the Vacuum Diode

An anode is where the electrons leave, and the cathode is where the electrons come in.
If you don’t understand this, neither do I, so don’t worry.Thomas Edison! We all know him!

Or do you?

But what is a vacuum diode? How do you even pronounce that? Well, thanks to Google, just look it up.

Jk.

It’s pronounced dai-owd.

So, what even is a vacuum diode, anyway? “A diode is an electronic component with two electrodes (connectors) that allows electricity to go through it in one direction and not the other direction.” states kiddle.co.

The anode is where the electrons leave, and the cathode is where the electrons enter the diode. If you don’t understand, neither do I, so don’t worry.

Although the vacuum tube was invented by John Ambrose Fleming, Thomas Edison was the one who later discovered the “Edison effect,” which says that electricity doesn’t definitely need a solid material to move through! It can move through gas or vacuums, too! Without this realization, vacuum tubes would never have been invented! Pretty awesome, right?

 

Albert Einstein and the Refrigerator

The Great Albert Einstein… in a cartoon

Ah! Yes. Albert Einstein. The famous scientist and mathematician who’s last name I can never spell correctly! Yes. Today, I’m going to teach you about Albert Einstein. But not about him. I’m going to talk about his refrigerator.

What?! Albert Einstein invented a refrigerator! Yes. Why yes he did.

The Einstein–Szilard, or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator that has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. Pretty cool, right?

Did you know? Albert Einstein was fascinated by what happened to a Berlin family who had been killed when a seal in their refrigerator failed and leaked toxic fumes into their home. Pretty strange reason to get fascinated, am I right? (But no one came blame Einstein. He changed our lives!)

Einstein’s refrigerator was patented in the 1930s and doesn’t use greenhouse gases and can be used without electricity! Do we still use it now? I have no idea!

Isaac Newton and Calculus

Isaac Newton Himself

Calculus. You might’ve heard it from someone, you might know it as some kind of math, but you might not know that Newton discovered it!

Many people know Isaac Newton for his discovery about his three law’s of motion, but he also invented calculus! I bet you didn’t know that! It impacted the world when he invented calculus in 1665. We take this for granted nowadays, but what Newton did hundreds of years ago is astonishing, considering now, many people take ages to learn it!

Calculus has uses in physics, chemistry, biology, economics, pure mathematics, all branches of engineering and much more!

Newton’s focus on gravity and laws of motion are linked to his breakthrough in calculus. Newton started by trying to recount the speed of a falling object. When he did, Newton found out that the rate of a falling object increases every second, but there was no currently existing mathematical explanation for this!

Newton immediately started working on this, and he figured out that when using calculus, he could explain it! So this is how Isaac Newton discovered calculus.

Georg Ohm and His Law

Okay. So who is this Ohm guy? His full name is Georg Ohm. (And yes. It’s spelled Georg. That’s not a typo. He has such a strange spelling name in my opinion. No offense Ohm!)

He was born on March 16, 1789, in the university town of Erlangen, Bavaria. His little brother, Martin Ohm, also became a famous mathematician! Johann Wolfgang Ohm, his father, was a locksmith. Maria Elizabeth Beck, his mother, was a daughter of a tailor. She died when Georg was ten.

“Ohm’s Law states that the current passing through a conductor is proportional to the voltage over the resistance,” says ducksters.com.

This may sound very confusing. I’m a little bit confused myself! But it can be written in a simple formula: I = V/R. I is currents in amps. V is voltage in volts. And R is resistance in ohms.

Voltage divided by current is resistance. Resistance times current equals voltage. Just like math. I don’t like math.

                                    

Hey! Ohm is not a thing. He’s a person! But an ohm CAN be defined as “an electrical resistance between two points of a conductor,” as said by Wikipedia.

So I guess when you say “ohm”, it could mean a person or a thing! Kinda like a noun. Haha.

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