Unit 5-NYC Cab Struggles

This New York City cab clearly explains Newton's law of inertia in many ways. This cab of course is not moving which means that it is as rest; dictating that this cab will want to remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside, unbalanced force. This force/ action happens to be the thing that will cause this cab to move. When the driver presses on the gas pedal the cab will have to move because the wheels of the cab will be turning which will force the taxi and its driver to accelerate and to also start moving forward in the line of traffic.

Unit 4- Boom

This rocket clearly explains the unit because friday mostly revolved around this rocket and how we will calculate where it is going to land. The proper way to find out where this rocket will land after shooting it at an angle is to make sure that you draw the right triangle that results from the angle that you decided to launch your rocket from. If I wanted to launch my rocket at a 45 degree angle I would have to draw the rest of the right triangle making it a 45-45-90 triangle and then I would be able to use the velocity of the rocket and trig to find out how far my rocket would go.

Unit 4- Europe Trip

This unit has been stressful so far. It has been somewhat confusing, to my dismay, but I am pushing through it and learning a lot. This picture of me on this sled in Europe clearly explains this unit so far because in this case I have become the projectile. As I go down the gleaming white snowy hill I am being affected solely by gravity. Nothing else is causing me to move faster or slower down the hill; except air resistance, maybe. In order to find out how far I went we would need to first calculate the time it took for me to go down the hill and then we could calculate my distance that I traveled. Because you must have the time before you can find the distance.

Quarter 1-Sam

This is Samson. He happens to be one of the most active dogs I have ever met and he does a wonderful job representing this first quarter. There are so many things that we are now able to know by looking at Sam. We can tell how far he has run, his velocity, and we can also tell how fast he is accelerating. We would also be able to convert Sam's distance into miles by using the conversions that we learned in unit 1. If I were to make a d,t graph for Sam his graph would be a linear graph with a slope because he has a velocity. This would cause his a,t graph to be a straight line because he is not getting any faster.

Unit 3- The Mini

In this, the last day of unit 3, we learned about how to use the various kinematic equations to come up with an unknown. This car of mine is a very good example of this unit because, of course, it accelerates. I can use many kinematic equations for this car. I could potentially be able to find its distance using dat one, I could find its velocity using v,a,t one and I could find its acceleration with v,a,d one. The only thing I would really need are the rest of the measurements to plug into the equations. This would not be too hard for me to procure because I could just go out and measure the various things that I need from my car.

Unit 3-Camels are cool

Today we talked mainly about three new equations that we learned in class. These three equations have proven that they already are very important in the world of physics and they are necessary for my physics survival. This lovely picture of my and my family on a camel in Dubai represents these equations because it shows that although the camel looks to be stationary he is still accelerating downward due to the earth's gravity. If I wanted to find this camel's speed I would have to use the v,a,d equation to help me figure how fast he will be moving.

Unit 3- The Feline

Although he is not moving, this cat represents acceleration in more ways than one. Let me first introduce him. This is Max; he is my very overweight yet adorable fat, grey, pear shaped rascal of a cat. He loves to run around my house just for the fun of it. By doing this, Max is accelerating in a positive direction. He is gaining speed as he starts his running exploit and then he is accelerating in a negative direction when he gets tired and decides to stop running and sleep for a little while until he is spritely and ready to take on the world. Max's acceleration vs time graph would of course, look like a straight line because the units on this graph are meters per second squared. His v, t graph would look like a squared graph because he is gaining speed quickly.

Unit two...The Time Keeper

I think that this fabulous watch relates to unit two in many ways. One of which being that the watch is always in motion. If I were to make a motion map for this watch it would look like a never-ending line because seconds will not end unless the world does in some tragic explosion or something crazy of that nature. This watch can also be translated into a Position vs. time graph. The graph would look like a diagonal line representing the fact that the second hand moves with a constant velocity and that it does not stop moving. The velocity vs. time graph for the watch would look like a straight line that just goes to infinity and beyond. This graph would represent the fact that the watch will never stop...until it runs out of battery of course.

Unit Two

For this unit I chose a picture of a moving car mainly because this unit is so far all about velocity, speed and distance. The car that is in the picture is moving relative to us in our own respective car. There are many things that we an figure out when looking at this moving car. We can find out its speed, velocity, and displacement. By doing these things we would be able to know many things about this car and its driver. We could maybe even guess where they are heading to and why they might be heading there if you are feeling like you are in an investigative mood. All together, this car has helped me to learn many things about unit two and I would like to personally thank this car; but maybe not its driver.

Unit One Finally Done

Unit one to me, was like a gallon of iced tea because we worked on different conversion factors in this unit. I learned that there are about 3.8 liters in a gallon for example. And I learned that there are 4 quarts also in a gallon and that there are 2 pints in a quart. This unit also taught me how to properly use stoichiometry like techniques to convert various measurements into other measurements. This is like the iced tea because when you first they to pour out some tea from a full bottle it might spill over but you have to learn that you can just take it slow and then the tea will perfectly pour into your cup with the only trouble being you having to life the heavy gallon of tea. In this unit I also learned that the temperature of the iced tea is not related to the volume of the iced tea because the volume will always stay the same at any temperature. 

Who is Miranda? (Letter and picture of intro)

My name is Miranda Kate Gilbert and I was born here, in Hawaii. I am a twin and my brother also goes to Punahou and is a junior here as well. We happen to be the exact same age down to the second because of some medical complications that I will not go into for the sake of not boring you to death. I am a tennis player and a dancer and I have been doing both for about 11 years now. I also am a marching band/concert band member. Yes, marching band, I know. I love it and it has been a major part of my life at Punahou for a while.

My progress in science thus far has been quite good in my own opinion. I have taken Biology and Chemistry Honors in my two years here in high school and I have done reasonably well in both classes. Chemistry was a bit of a trip for me because math is not exactly my strong suit but I was able to get through it and walk away with a reasonable grade.

As far as math goes I am not too partial to it. I do, however feel that I have been getting exponentially better at math as a whole. In high school I have taken algebra 1 and Geometry and I have gotten good grades in both classes. Next year I will be in algebra 2/trigonometry.

After completing this course I hope to gain a firm understanding of physics as a whole and of the working of physics.

I chose the picture above picture because I feel that I am like a cat in many ways. I am timid and shy at first but after I get to know you I am open and happy all the time. I think that I am also like a cat because I do have my moments when I want absolutely nothing to do with people and I just want to be alone with my thoughts. This does not happen often. That being said, I do love to work with people and I think that like a cat, I love to be around people and let them know what I have to say and what I am thinking.