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This lab had a cold open in the field against the risk of rain. High humidity made this a tough morning measurement run. This was the view east from the starting point. Launch coordinates. The view west from the starting point. Emleen, Wayne, and Malachi Due to the flying start at 8:00, only three students were present for the measurements. Thirty meters was problematic: smack dab in the middle of the entrance road The view from the 30 meter mark back to the starting point.  Sixty meters was under the Terminalia catappa.  Desmos 240 meters was just a few centimeters beyond the sheet metal fence for the new learning health center. Upon return to the classroom much of the rest of the class was present. Since three had done the heavy lifting of gathering the data in the heat and humidity, I tagged on +10 to 071. Those who had 10 for finding me wound up with 20 out of 10 possible. Those who did not fin...

Rain circumscribed hide options this term. I brought along the eTrex 10 and the Venture HC GPS along with the G60 and Tripltek. At 11:53 AM I sent the following via Canvas Inbox, followed by a scheduled release Gmail at noon. GPS coordinates Etrex 10 unit: N 06° 54.648' E 158° 09.426' Venture HC: N 06° 54.649' E 158° 09.426' Motorola G60: N 06° 54.650' E 158° 09.429' Tripltek: N 06° 54.651' E 158° 09.424' IOS: N 06° 54' 38.6" E 158° 09' 25.4" iOS users rely on the Compass app which reports in degrees-minutes-seconds.  Once again I turned to the rain sheltered area behind the IT shop. By 12:13 a rain band had arrived over campus. I had already sent out word to the students to essentially shelter in place and wait for the rain band to pass.  Undeterred by the rain, Wayne, operating solo, navigated to my location at 12:34 using Compass on his iPhone. Ian allegedly used a car to get closer to ...

The students in the ethnobotany course brought in local foods to present to the rest of the class.  Andretti and Devron brought in uter mwahng, also known taro balls. Discussion arose over the name of this particular food. Subsequent checks of the Pohnpeian dictionary  suggests that uter mwahng is the appropriate spelling. Ivan brought in banana chips which is called uht pirain. The word pirain derives from the English word "fry" as Pohnpeian typically substitutes a "p" for an "f" for imported words. Jaser and A.J. brought in yams, uncooked. Kehp pirain is fried yam fritters. Daman and Rodson presented the kehp pirain, a local favorite.  Mortlockese konen pula. Pula is taro. Konen pula always has patterns grooved into the top surface. The taro is boiled for three to four hours.  Joanalynn and Mesenda presenting Mesenda presenting the recipe konen pula Clayton, Elias, and  M...

Monday opened with a video playlist on heat and temperature .  I opened the Wednesday lecture by trying to show what Fahrenheit was thought to be trying to create - a scale that could be be subdivided by repeated bisections. This led to a 32 point scale between the freezing point of a saline solution and a fresh water solution. I gather he might have hoped that human body temperature was 64 points above 32 at 96. Anders Celsius' system was easier to describe but perhaps slightly harder to inscribe on a thermometer. Celsius is the only one I can recreate in A101, so Celsius is the only logical option. I do not teach conversions. I couldn't obtain a dew point depression, I am unclear as to why I could not.  The lab is now a mature lab with only ongoing tweaks. The timing is optimal for my gathering of data. the equation was perhaps problematic, a modification to use (100-T₀) is proposed further below.   Desmos I was entering data in ...