Assignment Articles... Pay Attention

Let's do this test. Okay I know the videos were a little slow, but I told you to pay attention. Hawking is a huge name in Physics and better yet he played poker against Einstein, Newton, and Commander Data on Star Trek NG. Cool.

Gore, love him or hate him, does a nice PowerPoint. Hey, not a lot of words. Just the way it should be. By the way,  Gore's not a newcomer to the green movement. I look over Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit in the early 1990's. What get's me about the hubbabalu about An Inconvinient Truth is that both sides are political. Maybe we just don't know what it is to do good science anymore. Unfortunately, any discussion about the issue of global warming quickly degenerates into shouting match that doesn't have anything to do with science. Sigh.

Here's the link.

Time to test your knowledge of simple machines. Although the machines may be simple, sometimes computing the mechanical advantage of them is not. Especially compound machines.

Let's see how you do...  here's the test.

Let's go fly a plane. We're taking the rest of the week to put some physics to work (or play) and have some fun. Here's the deal.... We'll be flying a Cessna 182 around a bit. BIG THANKS to Brett Russ for the presentation on the instrument panel and working with the joysticks. "Your such a outstanding young man! A true testiment to family, community and nation." Let's rock. If at least half of you podnockers can land successfully by end of class Thursday, we'll watch Top Gun on Friday.

Hey get a load of our outdated software. "As Real As It Gets." Well... for 1998 anyway.

Bernoulli's Principal??? Nah... that's the old guy that paddled Daniel when he forgot his homework. Now... Bernoulli's PRINCIPLE... that's a different story. Daniel Bernoulli's simple observation that as the velocity of fluids in a system speed up the pressure goes down. Now this may not sound so interesting but it is. Everything from planes flying to Indy cars staying on the track to hurricanes to toilets flushing all tip their hat to Mr. Bernoulli. 

Here's some sites to check out this week:

• Good ole Wikipedia (the eighth wonder of the world)
• Good animation to play with
• Principle's of Flight