I was so excited to have to opportunity to go to the Museum of Science. The first thing I did there was go to the electricity show. It was very neat to see these powerful machines in use see thing that tom vales had helped work on. I had never seen that show before and I am glad I got to see the Tesla coils play music and the other demonstrations.
The main thing we went to the museum was to get idea for our experiment. Being a group leader I felt I had to take action and get hands on with most of the experiments that have to do with wind and solar energy. One thing that really caught my attention was the wind experiment. It used coils and a iron core that spun around as a windmill does. It compared the electricity generated by hand and then with more gears. These gears made it take less force to spin the core. This is how windmills generate energy.
Another thing that gave me inspiration was placement of solar panels on homes. There were 4 sides and 1 would generate the most power. This was interesting I found the one that generated the most was panel B which was at the most relevant angle to the sun. Overall, I got to do everything required and got to see something at the museum I had never seen before.
I really like the idea of taking pictures to clarify the concept. As I didn’t get to explore the solar section, now I feel like I got an idea of the exhibit.
Nice photos. The electric show was pretty cool.
Interesting, do you think we could have used some of the info in the solar experiment you did on our group project? It may have added to our presentation even more with extra detail