YouTube – Robots climb the walls with static electricity (part of our SRI International Tour)

Drill these into your heads!

Transfer of Heat

Remember, Homework 9 is due tomorrow night by 11:59 PM EST!

Wow.

The Sun blasts out a flare and a huge filament | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine: “Never forget: the Sun is a star, a mighty ball of ionized gas, and when a star throws a tantrum, even a small one is epic.”

Epic indeed.

Head over to Bad Astonomy to get more details on what you can observe in the video above and why we might be hearing a great deal about these magnetic events in the near future…

Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Derived from the definition of Fahrenheit, each of the four members represents a season or temperature that corresponds with their different personalities. Calvin Chen represents spring, warm; Jiro Wang represents summer, hot; Wu Zun represents autumn, cool; and lastly, Aaron Yan represents winter, cold.

Each of the four members also has his respective temperature represented on the Fahrenheit scale: Calvin Chen is at 77 degrees, Jiro Wang is at 95 degrees, Wu Chun is at 59 degrees, and Aaron Yan is at 41 degrees.

Each of their temperatures are separated by 18 degrees.”

Monday we start on thermal energy.

Homework 8: Matter and Energy — Griffin Science

Post your answers on your blog (25 out of 30 or all 30 for 1 point extra credit).

You’ll have a short quiz tomorrow that will include the following topics:

- Finding Volume of an Object
- Finding Density of an Object
- Chuck Norris
- 6 Types of Energy
- 3 Ways to Measure Gases
- Boyle’s Law
- Squirrels
- Charles’ Law

Measuring Gases

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And here is more info on the gas laws we covered…

Boyle’s Law:

Charles’ Law:

Any questions? Email/IM/FB/Call/Txt/SmokeSignal me and let me know!

Energy and Matter Quiz 2

Have a great weekend!

Wednesday Nov 3: 6 Types of Energy

Remember, Homework 8 is due next Thursday (11/11/10 at 11:11 PM EST)!

Quiz tomorrow on volume, density and this info.

Have a robotically-unicorny evening!

Yet another reason we need you all to understand (and help us better understand) electromagnetism!

Nasa warns solar flares from ‘huge space storm’ will cause devastation – Telegraph: “Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes ‘from a deep slumber’ sometime around 2013, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”

Our culture is becoming so dependent on electromagnetism, so get to work helping us to figure this stuff out…

Scientists supersize quantum mechanics : Nature News: “A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.

Andrew Cleland at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his team cooled a tiny metal paddle until it reached its quantum mechanical ‘ground state’ — the lowest-energy state permitted by quantum mechanics.”

I’ll explain tomorrow.

Then we’ll discuss.

After that you’ll grow up, become physicists and figure out how to do this on even larger scales so humans can transfer energy and information faster than the speed of light.

Woah.