Measuring kinetic friction

The only failure today was that the ants found the donuts within twenty minutes. A donut failure. Lesson learned. Towel and tied in the future.
The cups are rather sad and should be replaced by disposable cups.

Kapualani and Sucie work on the effect of grit

This term, guided by forgotten scales mentioned in the spring blog, nothing was forgotten. 

Mirabells, Emylia, and Chem also worked with grit.

Only the two 2000 gram scales were used to avoid unnecessary decimals and provide capacity to measure up to 2000 grams. One group reached 1370 grams. 

Brian and Darsen were one of two weight impact measuring groups.

This term I started set up early and even remembered to print out the days sheets. Rather than printing from Google Sheets, I created two single page Google Docs files with a simplified grit sheet. These helped tremendously and we're an improvement over having grit on the SMARTboard.

Fumie-Kate performing data collection, Sheral recording the data.

In the 11:00 section Sinae and Nakisha measure the effect of weight on the force of friction.

Joann and Angelica were the only weight group to have a y-intercept at the origin yielding zero force for zero weight. All other groups had a non-zero y-intercept. I checked the horizontal zero on the spring scales and they all looked good. Not sure what happened. Data happens.

Darla and Morgianna working on grit.

Dantez and Jemara also worked with grit. An additional 220 sheet is needed.

Shawn Dee and Delailah were a third weight groups. I cleaned out excess weights from the weight bucket and left behind the kg slot weights. Students had a more manageable set of 50, 100, 200, and 500 gram slot weights.

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