Edit: Oh nos! I forgot to publish my post…until now.
So after my last orchestra concert ever (tears), I fell asleep on the ride home. Of course, since I don’t have a driver’s license yet, this was not a problem. : )
I didn’t wake up until we entered the parking lot and the first thing I [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Convex Mirror Magic
Posted in Physics, tagged Car, Convex, Image, Mirror, Orchestra, Physics on Monday, April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Iolani School Family Fair Physics
Posted in Physics, tagged Fair, Force, Iolani, Malasada, Physics, Projectile Motion, Rides on Monday, April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday, I worked the late malasada (Iolani Class of 2009!) shift from 8:15 to about 11 at night. I got to do quite a variety of things from selling malasadas in the front to squeezing the little balls of dough in the kitchen to washing the extremely oily pans. It was rather busy and [...]
Stress and Force
Posted in Physics, tagged Debate, Force, Physics, Speech, Stress on Monday, April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Seeing that I’ve have a throbbing headache for all of Sunday, this journal entry is rather late…Most likely this is all from an overload of stress. It’s very different from the physics sense of stress which I’m sure you all remember as amount of force exerted per unit area. Review time!
For much of this weekend, [...]
Manhattan Project
Posted in Physics, tagged Alois Kral, Atom, Bomb, Chain Reaction, Hiroshima, Little Boy, Manhattan Project, Neutrons, Nuclear, Physics on Sunday, April 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s at times like this when I’m almost certain that some nuclear explosion has gone off in my mind due to stress overload. At the very least, it must be possible to determine the half-life of my rapidly decaying brain. Hopefully, the rest of this post will still be coherent.
Anyways, Alois Kral died this week [...]