Thursday, February 7, 2008

Thursday, Feb 7, 2008

Collected Spring Constant Labs

Went over RA Chapter 10
Example of atom to football field.
Example of Milky Way galaxy to football field - calculated number of stars in galaxy.

Reviewed electromagnetic spectrum
Radio, Microwaves, Infrared, Visible (ROY G BIV), Ultraviolet, X-Rays, Gamma Rays
Used speed = wavelength * frequency to calculate wavelengths of AM and FM radio waves

Used E = mc^2 to calculate mass to energy

Collected RA Chap 11 Scaling, graded, and handed it back
Showed Hewitt video on scaling

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