Monthly Archives: October 2011

Trip to MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab

On October 24, 2011, our class went to the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab located in Kendall.  When we first got there, it was not at all what we would have expected such a technologically advanced “experiment” to be located in. … Continue reading

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Solar Cells and Energy Experiment

This experiment was used as an exercise so that we could understand how to use the different equipment to measure out the voltage output of the solar cell panel and the light intensity output of the NXT through Labview. The … Continue reading

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Force, Work and Energy Experiment

This next experiment was focused on Newton’s second law of F = MA (Force = Mass x Acceleration).  Through this lab, my partner and I were able to see the direct correlation between acceleration versus mass and also acceleration versus … Continue reading

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Pandemics: Contagion

The tag line for the film Contagion is “Nothing Spreads Like Fear”.  I would say that is the most direct and simple way to define what a pandemic does to people.  This type of thing, an invisible organism, virus, bacteria…a … Continue reading

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