The simple driving force behind our flashlight experiment:

To prove that WORK and FORCE are intertwined. Without WORK there is no FORCE! Think about being stuck in the snow with your car. Naturally, you panic and get out of your car to push it out of the snow. You are putting in FORCE at this point, and with that, it becomes WORK. Your car is successfully pushed out of the snow!

 

 

We did not use the above model to implant the motives of our experiment. Dr. Shatz instead, provided us with the mental images of how a windmill works. THOSE THINGS ARE HUGE. Without the force of the wind, there is no work produced by the windmills. The work =force concept is an environmentally friendly one, natural work produces natural force. The windmill concept is one that I hope to see more of in America. My family has a home in West Falmouth, MA on Cape Cod, and there are always various discussions and protests going on about Cape Air. I support the change in CLEAN energy needed. Who really cares about the windmills, if your bills will go down, and something natural will be infused into the situation at hand. I will now associate them with the Work= Force lecture.

 

The experiment:

Testing Work + Force and how it is translated, through a small flashlight that is hooked up to several wires leading into the computer data. So, when the flashlight is being shaken, it’s voltage produced by the shake is shown on the computer screen.  There is a small metal coil within the flashlight that, I presume accounts for the voltage of energy produced.

 

Previous to starting:

We fooled around with the system, just to be comfortable with the graphs, and data reading  that we would be seeing on the screen. We established our given trials would increase by increments of 15 shakes in 30 second intervals.

1.Trial one: 15 shakes, by me: the voltages produced by the shakes are varying, The ninth shake shows up as a negative result. “I NEED TO SHAKE FASTER” runs through my head.

 

2.Trial two: 30 shakes, by me: The third shake packs a powerful punch with 1.4351 voltage produced! OH WOW! But, the rest vary and some are negative. This is okay, because we are still learning about the various outcomes of our shakes.

 

3.Trial three: 45 shakes, by Dana: Our total 45 shakes did not show up on our graph of data, but we were able to record the voltages of 18, I am almost certain that we were falling somewhat behind, and needed to continue to follow in a steady pace. SO, we took what we could get.

 

The total average of all our shakes was added up, and also the average of each trail was added up, to show how much voltage was produced by the work.

( SEE OUR GRAPH BELOW)

 

 

I hate to offer a disclaimer, but Dana and I had a few mishaps along the way.

One error : When we were shaking the Flashlight in the first few rounds- I was shaking too slowly, or putting in not enough necessary work to provide accurate force results. I

We generated electricity by shaking a  flashlight, there was a metal coil that was encased within the flashlight.

Second error: We could not translate our graph charts into e-mail format. So, unfortunately we have the cold hard facts to show the proof of our endeavors, but we do not have it in funky graph form.