Bluetooth Friday!

Ahh…this will be a pretty random and incoherent post.  All of that turkey in my system is making me sleeepy. : ]
So during the Black Friday rush, my dad got me a Jabra Bluetooth Headset.  After playing around with it, I started wondering about how this wireless connection is formed in the first place, allowing [...]

Read Full Post »

A Leaky Bottle

In learning about Fluid Mechanics, I couldn’t help but recall an interesting episode over the summer involving a water bottle.  My family and I were at the Water Park and my brother, for reasons unknown, decided to poke a hole in the side of his plastic water bottle.  Perhaps a physics deity coerced him into [...]

Read Full Post »

Moon Orbits

After an exhausting day of debating (in which evidence books and papers serve other purposes besides demonstrating gravitational potential energy ^ ^), I was much too tired to do almost anything.  Going walking in Waikiki and looking at the moon not included of course. 
There was a tiny sliver of a moon visible, currently in a waxing phase.  That [...]

Read Full Post »

Time & Lightning

So after nearly five hours stuck in a classroom taking the SAT, I promptly went home and slept for another five hours…I stick to my claim that standardized testing is a soporific drug.  (But at least I’ll never have to take it again!)
And since an analog clock is an impeccable example of uniform circular motion, it’s [...]

Read Full Post »