11/14 Meese

Today in 3rd period Honors Physics was a great one indeed. We started off the class by turning in our POGIL from class on Friday and checking ourhomework from the weekend, lab manual pages 80.5 and 80.6, which are also known as the free-body diagram. After quickly going through a worksheet that was easy, we proceeded on to the next task on the board, which was an activity in which Newton's 3rd Law was explained with a balloon, a pin, a pencil, a string and a straw. I am sure the Lakota is happy that Mrs. Coats-Haan is intelligent enough to explain such an important concept with such cheap equipment, I applaud you for this effort. But, back to what happened, After the balloon was blown up (despite being in Symphonic Winds, I sadly did not get past this step) we would blow up the balloon through a straw contraption and when released the air would propel it around. Although this was fascinating experiment, I was quite discouraged at my inability to blow up the balloon and thus began to move onto the next aspect of class, note taking. In the notes we covered Newton's 3rd Law of Motion (Also know as the Law of Conservation of Momentum) that states that for every force there is an equal, opposite force. for example, as I sit in this chair and type this blog, the chair, although not moving, is pushing down on the ground as the ground pushes up on it. Now if that isn't fun, I don't know what is. Then we watched Julius Sumner Miller's rendition of Newton's 3rd Law of Motion, where did crazy examples and bored the class with Latin to start off the video. After filling out lab manual page 69, which went along with the video, and we turned that in immdiately after the video. After this we resumed note taking by going over problems on the example sheet, which was where our time unfortunately ran out for the day.  The homework for tonight was lab manual page 73 and 74, which I was able to finish in next period's class. I am purposefully trying to lengthen my blog and use a more expanded vocabulary because of my aspiration of writing a physics blog comparable to that of Dwight Hu. Kevin Cleaves sent me a blog that Dwight had perviously written (I think in AP, possibly in Honors) and it was the most beautiful thing that I have ever read in my life. The sentence structure and the vocabulary were unmatched, rendering Dwight as the official physics blogmaster of the world. My hopes and dreams are to one day be able to write a Dwight Hu-like blog, although this is an enormous task, with diligence and perserverance I hope to eventually obtain this skill. All of Dwight's blogs put my feeble attempts to shame, but this is meerly the starting point of the long road that is to write a blog comparable to that of the great Dwight Hu.

QOD: Newton's 3rd Law of Motion pertains to the balloon activity because the air being pushed out of the balloon must have an equal and opposite force to counteract it and thus the balloon was able to move in a circular motion.