Category Archives: HW

This is a make up blog post to the robot lab because I was not able create a blog about it due to my surgery. What is geothermal energy? Geothermal energy is energy that is created and stored in the … Continue reading →

Last class we met in our groups to discuss and figure out what experiment we wanted to create and present to the class. Right from the start we wanted to do an experiment using a generator of some sort. We … Continue reading →

For the lab today in class, we did an experiment using solar cells. The equipment we used was a light, solar cell, different colored pieces of reflectors, and the robot to measure how much voltage was being collected by the … Continue reading →

The head of the science department, Tom Vale, came into our class today and did a few demonstrations for our class. His demonstrations consisted of the Stirling engine, Deltier Effect, Peezol Electric effect, and the Tesla coil. All of these … Continue reading →

On Monday our class took a field trip to the MIT nuclear power plant. The purpose of the trip was to learn the basics about nuclear power. Our class was given a tour by one of the employees at the … Continue reading →

On Monday, we did a measurement lab in class. We used a pulley system to raise .25 kg. While raising this mass we looked at speed which was measured in rotations per minute, power setting, time which is measured in … Continue reading →

What is a pandemic? A pandemic is a viral strain that is extremely contagious that most people do not have the immunity to. This enables the virus to be spread throughout the world with relative ease. Interestingly enough, many people do not … Continue reading →

On March 11, 2011, Japan was hit with a tsunami that was cause by an earthquake off the coast of Japan. The earthquake was called a “megaquake” because it registered a 9.0 on the Richter scale. It is the most … Continue reading →