Monday we had open work time. Tuesday we started a writing piece for humanities and made slime in chemistry an started a writing piece about that. On Wednesday we printed more photos. On Thursday we watched an episode of the Cosmos and had a writers workshop for our writing piece in humanities. On Friday we had work time and debriefed the episode of the Cosmos and started a writing piece about it. HumanitiesHow does the work of scientists, artists, and philosophers lead to wonder and curiosity? Their work leads you to wonder what their thought process was when they created it, what they were feeling and how all of that contributed to and affected their work. The creations made by these people can provoke a wondering of the motivation as well. Philosophers and the questions they ask, make you think deeply about an answer that may or may not be there. Scientists look at something they don’t understand and try to understand it further, making new discoveries in the process. Artists paint, draw, sculpt, etc. what they are feeling and push the mind to view the world as the artist. When you see something so complexly built, whether it be a piece of art, a research paper, or a philosophical thought, you wonder, How long did this take? Can I do something like this, how long will it take me? There are some works that are designed to make you wonder. For example, there are certain philosophical questions designed to make you wonder, about you, your life, and everything. A couple of these questions are, What is the meaning of life? Who am I? What is time? What happens after death? And Does God exist? Are just a few questions posed to make us wonder. Abstract art is made for you to interpret. It gives you a chance to “choose” what you see in the piece. There is usually something given by the artist to “guide” your wondering, or push you in the right direction, helping to give you an idea of what the artist wanted you to see. Science in general is something to be wondered about. There are constantly new things being discovered leaving you to wonder how they discovered it, there are things being proven false, where you could wonder how they figured out that it was false. Everything that happens in science, circles around curiosity and wonder. Matter of fact, not just in science, nothing would get done if no one was curious or no one wondered what would happen. If no one wondered, we would not have a lot of the things we have today. ChemistryHow does epoxy work
-What is a polymer? -How does the polymerization process work? -Can you describe the connection to the polymerization of pva that we did in class? -How can this help with our project? In order to work correctly, you need to use a 50/50 ratio of resin to hardener. On a chemical level, what is happening is the hardener, or catalyst in this case, is altering the chemical chain of the resin, letting a chemical reaction ensue, setting the resin. In order to visually see and know what was happening, we took PVA (elmer’s glue) and added boric acid. Mixing the boric acid into the glue made the glue sort of curdle, or at least that is what it looked like. Once it was “curdled” if you worked with it enough(stirred), it would turn into a putty/slime. In this case, the boric acid acted as the catalyst, altering the chemical chain in the glue, making the chemical reaction start. The glue experiment that we did was similar and relevant to the resin work that we are doing because it showed us how the hardener and resin were reacting when they are mixed together. The chemical chain in this is made up of a monomer that connects repeatedly to create a chain. The monomer has 2 carbon atoms, with hydrogen surrounding them on all sides except for one, in the one open position(the vinyl position), there is an acetate atom. This monomer is called polyvinyl acetate, or school glue(PVA). The monomers all connect, through a process called the polymerization process, creating a chemical chain called a polymer. During this process, all of the monomers connect together creating macromolecules in all different shapes and sizes. What can we learn from light? What information is in light? From light, we can learn what elements are the make up of different things, we can tell the make up of planets lightyears away by what color/type of light that it gives off. We can tell this by what “shadows” different elements give off in the spectrum as well. Light lets us see. When we see color, what is happening is the object that has color is absorbing the opposite color of light and reflecting the color that we see.
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