Wow, already here comes the end of the Sci Art program. What? You ask me what I learned from here? Hmmm, lets just stay that my mind has been opened. Never have I ever thought critically and truly “imagined the impossible”. Simply attending a chemistry course or a biology course would have simply been a […]
Today was started off with an interesting lecture about morals and consequences of science and nanotechnology. This was very interesting because it discussed how nano technology and modern science can be used in a positive way or in a negative way. For example nuclear energy can be used to power homes and buildings, but it can […]
Today my group and I realized that there were a few unanswered questions regarding the intricacies of our quantum dot panel. For example, deciding the frequencies used in the sounds emitted was difficult because generally with wavelengths (in meters) in the 1.0 X 10^-7, these frequencies are in the range of 1.o X 10^14 , […]
I new idea came to my mind when we made the magnetic liquid the other day. I was thinking that if we had the resources and the tools, and if it did not hurt the enviroment, we could make a whole lake out of the magnetic liquid. So after this I was thinkin we could […]
Today we went into an anechoic chamber. This is a room where each wall, the floor, and the ceiling is covered with foam. The foam makes the room extremely quiet. Once you are in there, it is dark and silent. But it is not really silent. You can hear a buzz from the air in […]
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Two days ago, we got to make Ferro fluids in a beaker. Ferro fluids are magnetic so we got to manipulate the liquid. When we put a bar magnet underneath the beaker the Ferro fluid got stuck to the bottom of the glass. When we moved that magnet around spikes of Ferro fluid would move […]
Yesterday, we went to a room where the room reflects no sound. When the door is closed you cant hear even the loudest train passing by. This place was called the anechoic chamber. The is built specifically so no outside noise can be heard. The floor was made of suspended mesh so the floor did […]
Today’s activities centered around sound. Tyler Adam’s “Sound and Science” lecture included brief history about technological advances related to sound. For example, the theremin is an instrument developed in 1919 which operates using the heterodyne principle. and involves the interaction of two radio frequency oscillators to produce sound. Sound technology seems to define our generations, such […]
Ahhh Harry Potter. As a whole, Harry Potter movies are disappointing and dramatically different from the exact storylines of their corresponding books. However, I felt relatively satisfied with some of the sections of the book expressed by Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I’m going to talk about a lot of things, and […]