Monthly Archives: October 2012

Generator Lab

Objective: In class we did an experiment that measured the voltage that was produced by a hand generator after a specific number of shakes. Purpose: The whole idea of this experiment was to compare the voltage measured to the number … Continue reading

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Friday March 11th, 2011 an earthquake hits off the Eastern coast of Japan causing the automatic shut down of units 1, 2, and 3. Units 4, 5, and 6 had been shut down previously due to outages, but the emergency … Continue reading

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Mass Pully Experiment

summary: The class preformed an experiment that measure the amount of weight the robot could lift using a pully. All the information was determined by Labview. objective: The idea of the experiment was to compare measurements of the different factors … Continue reading

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Natural Gas Hydraulic Fracturing

What is hydraulic fracturing? Hydraulic Fracturing is a stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of underground resources (oil, natural gas, geothermal energy, and water). Who uses hydraulic fracturing? Gas and oil industries use this process to enhance subsurface fracture systems to … Continue reading

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Increasing Gas Mileage

The price of gas today is becoming higher and higher by the minute. People are doing everything they can to increase gas mileage, but with the rising prices succeeding in this is becoming harder everyday. Car companies make progress and … Continue reading

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