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Science WAC - Music in a Classroom: Is it a Distraction or a  Study Tool ?        “When good music hits you, you feel no pain,” said Bob Marley. Many would have agreed while others would argue that music serves as a distraction. I stand with a foot in each world-- it really just depends on what kind of music. I believe that music can help you study if you don’t turn it up incredibly loud and if it’s the kind of music that’s purely instrumental-- without words. But at the same time, I believe that music is only a distraction-- the amount of times I’ve tried to write something and listen to music at the same time and failed because I ended up writing the words into a document, then had to go back and delete them. To help you study, music should be turned at a low volume and should not contain words to confuse you. Since I listen to a variety of music, I’ve learned to choose music with simple tones rather than an onslaught of confusing melodies. However, I lean towards the

Roller Coaster - Project Blog Post Summary:  This project was when we had to create a prototype of a roller coaster and use a marble as the car. The objective of the roller coaster project was to learn about physics and to make sure we could design a roller coaster in which the marble would stay on the track.  Backward-Looking: How much did you know about the subject before we started? I knew only a little bit-- I knew what scalar and vector quantities were, and who discovered gravity, but aside from that, I didn't know about anything else.  Inward-Looking: How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like/dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece/work?  I disliked this piece of work. I felt like it didn't represent my best work and I never believed it would actually work because the marble would always fall off the track. It was too messy because of all the tape we used to make our track smoother and because we had to

Summary:  During this week, I learned that our marble accelerated faster when we lined our pipes with tape to give it a smoother surface. (This was for our roller coaster project.) I also learned that our marble needed a lot of acceleration to go around the loop-the-loop fully or else it would fall off. Another thing I learned was that if our marble had too much acceleration or wasn't balanced properly on the top of our coaster, it would shoot out of the side before going all the way around our loop-the-loop. SP1: Asking questions and defining problems.  I asked questions such as, "What would happen if our marble had too much acceleration?" (Which was then tested...) And other questions such as, "How would applying tape to our pipes work?" and "Would hot glue work when trying to slow down our marble? What if the heat from the hot glue melts the styrofoam when applying it?" Image Link:  A photon checks into a hotel. The bellhop asks, “

Summary:  During this week, I learned about Newton's Laws of Motion. I learned that Newton's Law of Inertia meant that bodies in motion tend to stay in motion and bodies at rest to stay at rest. I also learned about his other two laws-- Newton's 2nd Law states that the acceleration of an object depends on the net force acting upon the object and the mass of the object. I also learned that Newton's Third Law of Motion states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. SP3: Planning and carrying out investigations.  I investigated Newton's laws a little bit more with our Newton's Laws lab. I worked on his second law with a partner and found that the larger marble of our lab ended up going a little slower than our smaller marble because the big marble had less force behind it, while the small marble had the force from the big marble that propelled it forward over the tape.    Image Link:  What is a physicist’s favourite food? Fission chips