Week 1 Science Methods 2

 

1. The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did.
1. How do we make a race exciting between people who walk at different speeds? We had two people speed-walk race. One person walked backward and one person walked forward, but started three seconds later than the person walking backward. We found that the three second head start for the person walking backward was too much of a head start, and the person walking backward won four out of five times. To make it more of an even/exciting race, we lowered the head start to only two seconds. We only had time to perform one race with this, but the race ended in a tie. See image below for our race results/graph. 
2. A description of what you learned in Thursday's lecture. In lecture today I learned how to measure speed. To measure speed you need to divide time from distance. Speed = Distance/Time. 
3. Answer questions about the weekly textbook reading:
1. What did you learn? Something that I learned is that you need two things to describe a position; Distance and Direction. 
2. What was most helpful? Something that was very helpful and appealing for me was how many photos and videos the site has to better understand the material in different ways. I am a very hands on and visual learner, so I need multiple different forms of the material for me to understand it the best. 
3. What do you need more information on? The metric system, I never know how many centimeters are in an inch, how many inches in a foot, etc. I feel like I should know those better. 
4. What questions/concerns/comments do you have? None right now!