Physics 2

How To Videos

Project Sheet

Overview:

Over the next two weeks students on the Delgado/Aguirre team will create How To videos in pairs. The video will address a question of note to help us further our collective knowledge of Space Science, Earth Science, Rocketry, and UAVs. The videos may be used by future members of the Astronomy Club or Brian Delgado’s class.

Process:

1. The first step in the process will be to find a partner and choose a topic. Do that immediately if you have not completed this step.
2. Once your topic is chosen, you and your partner should research the question, individually if possible. It would be best for each of you to complete a page of research minimum on your topic. You will need to know the information inside and out because, not only will you be making the video, you will be the class expert on this topic.Get this checked off.
3. Once your notes are taken, you can begin working on a script and storyboard for your video. You will want to storyboard out of of your shots. Think about angles that you want to capture and the story you want to tell through this video. The movie needs to be approximately 3 – 5 minutes in length. In service of the story you can go longer if need be. Get this checked off.
4. Make a filming schedule. Plan out when you want to film and what equipment you will need. We will need to share microphones, tripods and class cameras. Get Checked off.
5. Film and edit. The important thing here will be for you to choose a dedicated computer for your video. Save your footage and sound to the hard drive of the computer which will help your group avoid the chance of losing data.
6. When you are done with the first draft, we will do a critique of it. After your critique is complete you can complete your final draft and upload it to your High Tech High account’s YouTube channel.

Final drafts of your How To videos are due no later than Thursday, February 12th.

The final draft will be worth 150 SpaceBucks (or points for those doing points).

During the second semester, students will follow one of four science based tracks – Space Science, Earth Science, UAVs, & Rockets. Students will design and execute a plan of their choice in each of the tracks. Below are possible projects within each track.

Space Science

1. Make a minute physics style video
2. Complete problem sets
3. Do video reflections
4. Build a model of space-time
5. Do an experiment in a vacuum
6. Take a picture of the moon
7. Do a photo essay of the lunar cycle
8. Complete a study of the sun
9. Complete a model of the solar system
10. Figure out a method for doing planetary imaging
11. Take a picture of a planet
12. Take a picture of a nebula
13. Take a picture of a globular cluster
14. Take a picture of an open cluster
15. Take a picture of another galaxy
16. Analyze the light for a star
17. Find an exoplanet using the light analysis from a star

Earth Science

1. Do a minute physics style video
2. Complete Problem sets
3. Do video reflections
4. Build a model of an earth system
5. Chemically analyze water
6. Complete a model of life on earth
7. Make a short film showing different earth ecosystems near San Diego
8. Complete a model of the different epochs of earth history
9. Do a microscopy study of life
10. Do a microscopy study of rocks
11. Use rocks/gems to make jewelry
12. Use wood, plants, etc to make a scent
13. Do aerial photography of an earth system
14. Launch a weather balloon to the upper atmosphere
15. Do an experiment on a weather balloon in the upper atmosphere
16. Make a film with the video footage of the weather balloon launch
17. Build a communications system for the balloon package

UAV

1. Do a minute physics style video
2. Complete problem sets
3. Do a video reflection
4. Build a UAV from a kit
5. Become a certified UAV pilot
6. Program the UAV with a flight path
7. Make a movie with Aerial Photography
8. Design a body for a UAV and have it manufactured
9. Design a gimbal for a UAV
10. Fly a UAV for other students who need video footage

Rocket

1. Do a minute physics style video
2. Complete problem sets
3. Do a video reflection
4. Build an air rocket as a study of the rocket body
5. Build a rocket from a kit to understand the rocket system
6. Scratch build a rocket, building the body, the chemical engine and launch it.
7. Design a rocket that can go to space and pitch it to a team building a this type of rocket
8. Make a movie of a rocket launch

During the first few weeks of the second semester, you will be responsible for creating a How To video on either Space Science, Earth Science, Rocketry or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The topics for the How To videos are listed below:

How To Video Topics

Astronomy/Astrophysics

1. How does a reflecting telescope work?
2. How does a refracting telescope work?
3. How does a GoTo telescope mount work?
4. How does sidereal motion work?
5. How does retrograde motion work?
6. How does the iOptron Skytracker work?
7. How do the eyepieces work?
8. How does an autoguider work?
9. How does gravitational lensing work?
10. How do atmospheric conditions impact deep space visibility?

Photography

1. How do digital cameras work?
2. How does f-stop work?
3. How do camera lenses and focal length work?
4. How does ISO work?
5. How does shutter speed work?
6. How does the skystacking software work?

Earth Science

1. How do microscopes work?
2. How do weather balloons work?
3. How does a GPS work?
4. How does the atmosphere work?
5. How does the magnetosphere work?
6. How does weather work?

Flight

1. How does flight work?
2. How do aerodynamics work?
3. How do roll, pitch and yaw work?

UAV

1. How do electric motors work?
2. How do quadcopter props work to create motion?
3. How do RC controllers work?
4. How do batteries work?
5. How does the drone “brain” work?

Rockets

1. How do rocket motors work?
2. How does combustion work?
3. How does rocket science work?
4. How does chemical energy power rockets?
5. How do orbital mechanics work?
6. How does a gravitational assist work?

The following questions form the basis of the first semester final exam. I will choose between 4 and 5 questions. You can choose a similar number. We will have a 10 – 15 minute conversation about these for your final.

1. What is filial piety?
2. What role does duty play in Confucian belief?
3. Is Confucianism a religion or a philosophy? Why or why not?
4. What is the Tao? How is it significant?
5. What is the yin and the yang? How are they significant?
6. What is karma according to Hindus?
7. What is Atman?
8. What role does reincarnation play in the Hindu belief system?
9. Describe a Hindu God and its significance.
10. What is Anatman?
11. What role does reincarnation play in Buddhist belief?
12. What is the middle path?

1. What is voltage?
2. What is current?
3. What is resistance?
4. What is Ohm’s law?
5. What is electricity?
6. How is electricity generated?
7. What is a transformer?
8. What is the difference between a series and a parallel circuit?
9. What is a capacitor?
10. What is a diode and how does it relate to an LED?
11. What is a transistor and how is it significant?

1. What is Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation? Why is it significant?
2. What is gravity?
3. What are Newton’s three laws of motion? Give an example of each one.
4. What is the difference between position, velocity and acceleration and how are they related?
5. What is the difference between G and g?
6. What is the problem with Newton’s description of gravity?

1. What is the sine, cosine and tangent ratios?
2. What is dimensional analysis and how is it helpful?
3. What is one science concept you learned from an approved YouTube channel?
4. What did you learn from the lab you performed in class?
5. How is the Philae comet lander significant?
6. What is the technological singularity?
7. Who was Michael Faraday and why is his work significant?

Many students have a lot of work to catch up on over Thanksgiving Break. Below is a breakdown of what students should be working on. I completed individual contracts as a reminder for everyone in the class. Students wanting an A should post 10 Problem Sets, 10 Video Reflections, 5 Seminar Reflections, the Natural Philosophy Lab, and the LED light knowing that they will have to complete a Final Exam and get their Systems of Thought Art Piece posted after break (as well as prep for exhibition).

• Problem Sets. These need to be completed and signed off by me. You can find problem sets here: https://hthdelgadophysics.wordpress.com/problem-sets/
• Video Reflections. Students need to watch a video from the approved list (here: https://hthdelgadophysics.wordpress.com/physics-videos/) and answer the following questions on each video.
  • What was the science explained in the video?
  • Why is that science significant?
  • What questions does that raise for you?
• Seminar Reflections. Answer the question posted and use evidence from the text or the seminar to back up your response. https://hthdelgadophysics.wordpress.com/socratic-seminars/
• LED light. Post a picture of your light on with a write up answering what you learned about yourself and what you learned about circuits from building the light.
• Natural Philosophy Lab. Post a picture or video of you completing the lab. Post a brief paragraph about what you learned doing the lab. Post a lab write up with the following:
  • Looking Back: What happened?

    Describe the results of your experiment.

    • How did your experiment turn out? Did it work?  To what extent?
    • Describe how your experiment looked.  Do you have any images or can you illustrate artifacts?

    Looking Beyond:  What do you think has happened?

    Explain your observations and results. What do you think these results mean for the world beyond the experiment.

    Looking inward:  Lab Practice

    Did you get desirable results?

    • If yes, what did you think you did that contributed to desirable results?
    • If not, then what do you think contributed to undesirable results?

    How do you think you performed in this activity?

    Looking outward:  Collaboration

    Who did you work with?
    How do you think your group performed?

    Looking Forward:  What next?

    If you could do this again, what would you change to get better results?
    If you were organizing a group for the next lab activity, who would you choose to work with again?
    Do you see any way to continue this experiment? Would you want to?

    Take aways:    What skills, techniques, or pieces or wisdom did you get from this activity?

Click on the link below to see the intersession choices for the 2014 – 2015 year.

Intersession 2015

From NPR Commentator Aaron Freeman:

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him/her that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let him/her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her/his eyes, that those photons created within her/him constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly.

Amen.

See the attached file for circuits practice problems.

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Hi all,

I wanted to organize the grading of your blogs over the coming weeks as we pass the midpoint of the semester and head into the stretch run. This system of assessment only works if students have some regular feedback in order to make any revisions to their work. With fifty-four students to assess, it’s a challenge to give solid feedback to everyone in a timely manner. My solution is to set up a grading calendar, both in order to organize myself and to make the most efficient use of my time.

Beginning the week of October 20th, I will assess blogs from one class per week on a rotating basis. This will allow me to look through every blog twice in a four week period. I will begin by assessing the Minions during the week of 10/20 and follow that up with We Are Groot during the week of 10/27. I will continue this pattern through the end of the semester.

The schedule will work as follows with a list of what I’ll be checking for below:

• Week of 10/20 – Minions.
• Week of 10/27 – We are Groot
  • 6 problem sets (6 points), 4 Seminar Reflections (8 points), and 4 Video Reflections plus (4 points)
  • Natural Philosophy Lab Writeup (5 points)
• Week of 11/3 – Minions
• Week of 11/10 – We are Groot
  • 8 problem sets (8 points), 5 Seminar Reflections (10 points), and 6 Video Reflections (6 points)
  • Natural Philosophy Lab Writeup (5 points)
  • Systems of Thought Art Piece (5 points)
  • LED Light Project (10 Points)
• Week of 11/17 – Minions
• Week of 11/24 – We are Groot
  • 10 problem sets (10 points), 5 Seminar Reflections (10 points), and 8 Video Reflections (8 points)
  • Natural Philosophy Lab Writeup (5 points)
  • Systems of Thought Art Piece (5 points)
  • LED Light Project (10 Points)
• Week of 12/1 – Minions
• Week of 12/8 – We are Groot
  • 10 Problem Sets, 5 Seminar Reflections, 10 Video Reflections
  • Natural Philosophy Lab
  • Systems of Thought Art Piece
  • LED Light Project
  • Quadcopter Writeup

I will grade blogs M – Th. I will grade them alphabetically getting through about seven per night until the class is assessed.

Please contact me with any questions.

After you have your image and text approved for the art piece, you can then begin you illustrator work. Find the laser cutter template in the Student Share folder titled Delgado Physics. This folder is also where you save your finished file in the appropriate class folder. Your illustrator file should simply be titled with your last name. Follow the instructions on the template for creating an 8.5″ x 8.5″ square that your art piece will fit within.

For information on modifying images to be laser cut go to the following tutorial. You need to create