How I transferred energy this weekend

This weekend I have done a lot of things such as go on the treadmill and peloton. These both have some kind of energy in this case, both are mechanical and kinetic energy. This transferred energy because when you plug in the treadmill or peloton energy is transferred from the outlet to the machinery. Another way I transferred energy this weekend was that I charged my phone, this is transferring energy because when you plug in your phone the wire sends a signal to the outlet to start charging the phone. A final way I transferred energy this weekend is that I turned on the stove to make pasta this is a form of thermal energy and It transverse energy because when you turn on the stove the fire comes up and transverse the energy from the stove to the pot.

What is energy?

When you think of energy you would usually think of the lights, right? Energy is the ability to work.

There are many types of energy such as potential and kinetic energy, these are the most popular or important types of energy because they have a big impact on a lot of things. Potential energy is the energy of things stored in a object, on the other hand kinetic energy is the energy of moving objects. But potential and kinetic energies are not the only ones there are also energy’s such as elastic energy, thermal energy, chemical energy, nuclear energy and many more.

We get our energy from the sun, from fuels and movement. There is both renewable and non renewable energy sources. The renewable ones we always have more off, like sun and wind. The non renewable might run out one day, like gas, oil and nuclear energy.

In conclusion, Energy is everywhere and we should never take it for granite.

Difficulties #3

I know this blog post is supposed to be about my interview, but instead it is going to be about how hard it was to schedule my interview.

It all started when my mom asked a friend if she knew a vet. She did and gave my mom the email address of Dr. Nance.  I emailed Dr. Marla Nance on May 17, 2019 to ask her for an interview. She emailed back saying, “Yes, I would be willing to help you and do your interview on Capstone.”

Then we waited and waited and she still had not emailed back and it was getting close to the due date of Wednesday May 29, 2019. We have emailed her 5 times and still have heard nothing back. My mom also called her. So, my mom and I decided to go to find a new vet surgeon to interview.  We went to my dogs vet, Lisa Hodes, also known as Dr. Hodes. We emailed Dr. Hodes and said this: “Dear Dr. Hodes, I have a project called Capstone and it is on vet surgery for my school project. I need an interview with a vet and I was wondering if I could interview you. If you agree to the interview, you can email us back. Thanks Stella.”  We are still waiting for an answer.

Update May 28:

At 5 pm, Ms. Edwards called with the name and number of her vet, Dr Zuckerman.

My mom was about to call him when she saw Dr. Nance emailed back! We are going to see 2 surgeries and do the interview on May 29 at 9.30am..

Update May 29:

We went to see Dr. Nance.  She showed us around the hospital and she let us see a dog spay! The hospital was super fun and we had lots of questions. My favorite part was seeing all the dogs at the hospital and seeing Dr. Nance do her dog spay.

For the interview, I asked Dr. Nance questions like: “Why did you want to become a veterinarian surgeon? And What sort of professional development do you need to do to maintain your license as a veterinary surgeon?” My mom recorded it on voice memos and we got lots of good and interesting answers from this interview.

 

Rube Goldberg # 6 : materials we used

You have to try different materials to make a rube goldberg project.

For our first step we used lots of cardboard to make pipes on the wall. We taped this on the wall with blue tape. Our second step we used a marble and a marble run. Our third step we used a rail with a cardboard stop around it. We also used dominos, magnet tiles, a green and white ping pong ball, a soft green ball, two green blocks and another magnet tile. For our fourth step we used a string, cardboard, a long squier and blocks. For our fifth step we used tin gold fairytale books. For our sixth step we used two boxes, a chair, Mickey Mouse tape, a lego car, a rubber duck and a long orange rail. Our seventh step we used two cardboard pipes and more Mickey Mouse tape. Our last step we used a tennis ball, a red block, Mickey Mouse tape, a fidget spinner and a Mickey Mouse balloon.

We used mostly cardboard because we had a lot of that around the house. Most of the material were already in Alexa’s basement. The only thing we really bought was the Mickey Mouse tape and the Mickey mouse balloon. The materials we used were mostly reusable. We did not plan the materials we were gonna use. We tried different materials for our different steps.we kept on changing the materials and at one point in worked.

Rube Goldberg #5 :Trying till is works

A Rube Goldberg project takes lots of time and tries to make it work.  We tried many, many, many times.  Sometimes we had to change are whole plan!  Such as we started off with using a car to set off the Tower of Terror, but that was too heavy to be pushed off the string.  We tried 2 green blocks on the side with a green soft ball in the middle of the 2 blocks, and we put a magnitile in front of the ball to hold the string until it fell over.  This plan worked!  Another plan was that we changed the idea of using water and instead, we put a rail on the chair and then got a lego car and stuck a rubber ducky on top of in and let it go down to hit a tennis ball which then hit a fidget spinner to release the balloon with Mickey Mouse on it.  We tried our Rube Goldberg many times and each time it stopped working somewhere else.  Such as the marble would get stuck on the cardboard pipe tape or it would get stuck in the middle of the marble run.  After every try we had to take a good look at our project and change something to make it work better.  At our 25th try it finally worked!  We were so happy it did not get stuck and it did not stop – it all worked!   We were cheering and screaming so loud! The moms who were filming were so happy, they forgot to film the end!!  WE then had to do it all over one more time to get it all on video.

Rube Goldberg #4 : design struggles

During design process we had many good ideas, but not all of those ideas worked out when we started building. One example is when we build the pulley (the tower of terror) .When the weight in the bucket was to heavy the dominos could not hold down the string.  If the pulley weight was to light it will not make the books (fairytale forest) fall over. We had to try many different things, in the bucket and a ball attached instead of a bucket. We are still not happy with how it is going to we are working on this more this week.

We also had the idea to use fidget spinners and we were thinking maybe 3 of them next to each other but when we tried it wasn’t that easy. This is another thing we will work on this week.

Making the sketch was a sort of easy part, but putting all the steps together and making it work together was really hard. We also wanted it in a theme and it should look nice. That was not easy.

this is the photo of our pulley. As you can see there are no books up yet this photo was taken before that idea came to mind. We also changed the bucket (half a water bottle) to a tennis ball.

Rube Goldberg #3 : sketch and more building

This is my 3rd blog post for my rube goldberg project, and I am going to talk about our sketch. When we first started we had some ideas but our final sketch is very different then our first ideas.

In my last post I talked about the design up to the pulley. When we thought light about what would come after that, we sketched a book forest, set off by a see saw and a water part with a unicorn rubber ducky. Making the sketch and making it work in real life are very different. We found out that the see saw part wasn’t really working that well and the books would fall without the sea saw part, as long as the first book was positioned in the right way on the cardboard levy. We didn’t update our sketch as the big ideas did not change but the details did.

At this moment we are going to work at the hardest part where a water bottle will fall over and fill a bucket with water and hopefully the ducky will fall out to set the next step to go. That will be a ball that needs to make the fidget spinners move. I think it will be hard to get the waterfall in the right spot (without getting everything wet) and for the bottle not to drop in the bucket. Getting the ducky out will also be hard. We might need to build a tunnel or something to make it fall in the right spot to set off the next step. Or maybe we need to use a ping pong ball instead, but the name is Donald Duck pond so that would not be good.

We will leave the sketch as it is. We decorated it and it is ready to go to school. And perfect for all our classmates to see.

Rube Goldberg #2 : start to build

 

When we got together on Saturday we both had a few ideas and looked at all the materials and tools in Alexas house that we could use. There was so much too choose from. We started building the “seven dwarfs mine train”, we cut open a long tube (from wrapping paper) and cut it in 3 piece and taped it to the wall, using blue tape. The tubes had a down angle and we tried to let the marble go down. At our first try, the marble bounced out of the tube. We came up with a solution; use a cup at the end of each track to stop the marble from flying out. This did not work, the marble got stuck in the cup. We then tried turning the cup to have the bottom face the marble… IT WORKED! We did this on all track parts and the marble made it down the “mine train”. We will decorate it later.

We moved a small cabinet next to the wall to start our next part “Thunder Mountain”. We build a marble run and connected the wall track to the top of the mountain. A few times the marble bounced out of the track before it got to the mountain. We used extra paper and tape to stop the marble bouncing out. Right now, it looks just like a marble run, we need to make it look like a mountain with paper or something.

After the mountain the marble goes down a long tube and our idea was to have it hit a car, that would then go down a ramp to hit dominos to set off the next step. The car would not stay on the ramp because it was too heavy. We tried to put some tape on the ramp but it did not work. We then tried different balls. the ping pong ball worked best with a tunnel around it to stop it from falling off the track. The Ping Pong ball goes from the track to the dominos. The Dominos and long tube we called “Splash Mountain”. Next stop is the “Tower of Terror”. This is a pulley. We watched a youtube video on how to make one.

We followed the instructions on the video and made the pulley. WE had Alexa’s brother and his friend help us build a tower to hold the pulley. We then tried all the steps of the project to see if they worked. You can see that in this video.

 

I think we learned so much from this day. The way we had made our sketch and how it really worked was different, we had to come up with new ideas all the time.

Next week we are going to make the pulley move up, build more and decorate.

Let’s take a look at how this is going to work:

Demo Video

Rube Goldberg #1 : brainstorming

When I first heard of the Rube Goldberg project I was really excited. My first blog is about the many decisions we had to make. Who to work with? What theme to pick and where to do the project?

I chose to do this project with my friends, Alexa and Maya. We made this decision at school when we first heard about this project. We talked about it at school but when we needed to get together it was hard to find a time that was good for all of us. Because of this Maya decided to do the project by herself. This was not an easy decision for anyone to make.

Whe then had to pick a place to work. We have decided to to work at Alexas house because she has all the tools and the space so we did not have to move the project. Her basement has many building supplies and she has a lot of cardboard which can help with the project. We can build the project in a place where we don’t have to take it down for a while.

For our project theme we picked Disney.  We picked Disney because we thought it would be cool to make all of the rides and use the Disney theme. We thought that we would make our project take place in the different Kingdoms. We decided our goal of the Rube Goldberg was to let a balloon with tinkerbell or mary poppins go up in the air.

At the start we decided to research and each think of 2 ideas/projects for our Rude Goldberg. I looked at many youtube videos and researched these websites and videos:

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/   

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvBRimOSBVY

After my research I started to sketch my ideas. We agreed to both think and draw out 2 steps and get together on Saturday to work them out. My idea was to start at the wall and have a marble go down into a mountain like structure. I will tell you about the building in my next blog.

Rocketry Presentation Reflection

I think rocketry was a amazing experience but my group had a hard time agreeing. we named our first Rocket Norbert the rocket (Stella named that Rocket) , our second rocket was named faze (PJ made that rockets name)  and the last was called bob 5 ( Steven thought of that rockets name) The engineering and design process was extraordinary. My favorite part was the second launch because it was much better than the first and the rocket went much higher  and we got to graph our Rocket I am very thankful than I got to experience this Unit

 

This is my rocketry presentation

this is my video

 

Thanks For Listening 

And Have A Nice Day!