11-4-08

Today is November 4, 2008. After I walked into the room and sat down, I noticed todays to do list. First we were going to have to solve the daily question, which is located on the white board in the front of the room. The question was: As more weight is hung from the cart, the acceleration either a) increases, b) decreases, c) remains constant, or d) is 0m/s/s. The answere to todats daily question was: As more weight is hung from the cart, the acceleration a) increases. After we went over the daily question, Mr. Manning let us break into groups and continue working on our force and motion lab, which we started the previous day. My origional group was Anna, Allie and I, but Anna was absent today which left just me and Allie. Everyone had already started to get to work, but me and Allie were having some difficulties getting started. So we asked Mr. Manning what to do, and he helped us get rolling. After we got the hang of what we needed to do, we were speeding through the lab. We did, however, have to redo some of our graphs to get the right pullin force and acceleration. After we had gotten all of our times, we had to put them all together on one big graph. We did so, but we had accidentaly put the acceleration in for the y-axis when it was really supposed to be put in for the x-axis. So, after we had found our mistake and fixed it, our graph was curved somewhat like an "s." After we had our graph, we printed it out and started to work on the follow-up questions, but the bell rang so we had to wrap everything up and finish some other time.