Week 3 blog, week 4 class

❤ This week in lab we got to do a lot of fun stuff, including an experiment! During the lecture portion of lab, we talking about motion and why things move, why objects that are in motion stay in motion, and what factors come into play. This lead us into our experiment for the week. This week, we had to create an experiment with a swing. My table group and I decided that we wanted to test weight and if it had a great affect on how our swing functioned. We decided that we wanted to create an experiment with four different parts, a swing with no weights, 1 weight, 2 weights, and 3 weights. 

❤ During this experiment, we found that the weight of the swing does not affect the way the swing swings. We found that with 0,1,2,and 3 washers, the swing still was swinging the same or within seconds of each swing. We tested the swings by timing one swing per trial. Ex: trial one= 1 swing, trial two= 1 swing, and trial 3= 1 swing. We also weighed each weight to see how much weight we were working with and if this was going to change the track of this swing as well. 

❤In Thursdays lecture I learned a lot! We talked about Newton's laws and how those work and are applied to real life situations. The biggest thing that I took away from Thursdays lecture was that if you have a rope, the rope can only be pulled in the way that it is being pulled, by you or by another force like gravity. I thought this was really cool because it was something that I had never thought about before. What stuck with me most was, if you have a tire swing that is tied to a tree, the tire is being pulled down by gravity, but so is the rope as well. I thought that is was a really cool concept. 

❤ I learned a lot from the textbook reading this week, a lot of it we went over and talked about in lecture as well. So from the text and from lecture this week I feel like I learned a lot of the same stuff. 

❤ I think what was most helpful from the textbook this week was learning about potential energy and kinetic energy and how the two work together when a pendulum is moving. I thought this was really cool. 

❤ I want more information on Newton's laws and how they work. I feel like that is something I can research on my own as well but I would like to know more!

❤ as of right now, I do not have any questions, comments, or concerns.