GriffinScience » Pressure http://griffinscience.com 8th Grade Science at Spartanburg Day School Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:17:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1
What Happens to a Human Exposed to Total Vacuum? http://griffinscience.com/2010/06/03/what-happens-to-a-human-exposed-to-total-vacuum/ http://griffinscience.com/2010/06/03/what-happens-to-a-human-exposed-to-total-vacuum/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:01:11 +0000 Sam Harrelson http://griffinscience.com/?p=951 Scary!

Video of a man exposed to total vacuum

]]> http://griffinscience.com/2010/06/03/what-happens-to-a-human-exposed-to-total-vacuum/feed/ 1 Pressure Test on Thursday Feb 11, 2010 http://griffinscience.com/2010/02/10/pressure-test-on-thursday-feb-11-2010/ http://griffinscience.com/2010/02/10/pressure-test-on-thursday-feb-11-2010/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:31:54 +0000 Sam Harrelson http://griffinscience.com/?p=740 Tomorrow, we’ll be having our test on fluid pressure.

The key points will be:

Archimedes’ Principle
Pascal’s Principle
Bernoulli’s Principle

Please review those sections of your book and notes.

Also make sure you’ve got the steps to the scientific method that we discussed in class today (Wednesday).

Any questions?

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Page 402, #11-16

Please complete #1-15 on page 401 if you haven’t done so yet.

Also, submit or vote on questions for our Pressure Test THIS THURSDAY.

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In the meantime, please do the following over the weekend:

Page 401

#1-10

Also, start thinking about paper airplane designs :)

]]> http://griffinscience.com/2010/02/05/homework-for-weekend/feed/ 0 Homework for Thursday Feb 2, 2010 http://griffinscience.com/2010/02/04/homework-for-thursday-feb-2-2010/ http://griffinscience.com/2010/02/04/homework-for-thursday-feb-2-2010/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:27:32 +0000 Sam Harrelson http://griffinscience.com/?p=719 8.2: Compare Pascal’s Principle with Archimedes Principle. Know similarities and differences.

8.1 and 8.3: p. 397 #1-2

Homework will be checked tomorrow as a quiz grade.

Here are a few helpful sites:
Yahoo Answers on the 3 Pressure Amigos
Comparison of Archimedes’ Principle, Bernoulli’s Principle and Pascal’s Principle
Random Cool Facts

See you tomorrow.

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8.2:

- Pressure Activity (4 questions, 2 Points)
- 11.1 Questions on Page 378 (#’s 1-5)

We’ll get caught up to 8.1 and 8.3 tomorrow.

8.1 and 8.3:

- 11.2 Questions on Page 385 (#’s 1-2)
- Quiz Tomorrow on Buoyancy

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(MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS!)

- What does pressure depend on?

- How do fluids exert pressure?

- How does fluid pressure change with elevation and depth?

- What is a pascal?

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