BCC g Project

The team presented the PowerPoint. The Physics professors seemed very pleased and interested in our project. Below are the slides from our presentation. Now the team is looking for a new intern because a member is leaving and will not be present in Summer 2. The next modified physics experiment for Summer 2 will be the air track. Currently the team is brainstorming. Blogged by Jennifer Mikulko

We finished editing the manual, made a few copies for the presentation tomorrow and practiced the presentation.

The lab manual instructions have been successfully edited and adjusted according to the notes from the focus group testing. More pictures and diagrams are added to the instructions to make execution easier. One such picture is depicted below: Figure 1. One of the newly added pictures that locates all of the necessary icons listed in the instructions for using PASCO Capstone to analysis the recorded videos. Alongside, Jennifer continued to work on the PowerPoint presentation. Tomorrow, the team will rehearse and prepare for their presentation on Thursday.

We continue to edit the lab manual instructions and are working on our presentation slides.

Image 1. Image from Google Images The team watched the STEM Student Scholars program's presentations today which took some time from our scheduled meeting hours. Afterwards, we fixed our lab manual with the problems noted from yesterday's volunteers. The g project's presentation will be 1 week from today; therefore, a PowerPoint to present has begun. Blogged by Jennifer Mikulko

The team gathered six students, with the help of a small incentive (delicious homemade cheesecake brownies), to have them test out the experiment we made. As seen below in figure 1, the students are reading/reviewing the theory of the experiment. Figure 1: students reading the lab manual Next they split up into groups of 3 and started recording the different trials. Figure 2 & 3: The two groups conduct their experiments As noted by our team members, some of the steps in our procedure were misinterpreted by the students. Later on this week, we will be reviewing/editing our labs to make it clearer and easier to understand correctly. Next, the two teams moved on to analyzing the videos using Pasco Capstone as seen below. Figure 4,5,6: Students using Pasco Capstone As seen from figures 4-6, the students are using our laptops to analyze the videos since we have the Pasco Capstone Software already downloaded. Our goal, after finalizing the lab m...

The team continued finishing the write up for the manual and began reviewing it today. The plan is to have a few volunteer students test the experiment tomorrow to check whether the instructions are written clearly. Originally, the main objective of the experiment was to determine g experimentally and check its dependence on mass. However, after calculating the drag coefficient of the falling ping-pong ball two days ago, the team realized that including these calculations in the actual experiment would be a good idea so that the students can truly see the effect of air resistance on the experimental g . Therefore, the instructions for the drag coefficient calculations were added to the experimental procedure today. Click on the link provided below to view the write up: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dVBxBllWetZOKvtCrrmX3iw9x8DnTo4kGrvGxE5-iNk