Category Archives: HW

During the brainstorming session with the group to decide what we should do for our experiment, we tried putting together a list of potential ones that could be recreated and executed effectively.  The purpose for our experiment was to be … Continue reading →

Professor Tom Vales of the engineering department came by to class to give us a mini presentation accompanied by a series of interesting experiments used to generate energy in a small scale. Many of the “machines” he brought for us … Continue reading →

For this lab, a magnet generated flashlight, LabView software and the number of shakes of the flashlight were used in order to measure the voltage increase in connection to the number of shakes within the time of 30 seconds.  The … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Through the use of power grids, electricity is delivered when you want and need to use it.  The general idea of how electricity is generated is that it starts from a power plant and is transmitted to different substations in … Continue reading →

The earthquake that hit Japan was many times more powerful than the worst possible earthquake the Fukushima nuclear power plant was meant to withstand when it was first being constructed.  Like the Chernobyl accident in 1986, it shared a maximum … Continue reading →