Laser construction 101

Hello again…

I recently just finished a project about light💡and how it moves, reflects, refracts, the direction of light, the waves and all that jazz and I’m going to explain how i did it.

Let go back to the beginning of January right after winter break ✨✨✨✨✨✨

The very first thing we did we make a mind map (like we always do) to show our knowledge of light we already knew, to be totally honest i didn’t know much about light at all. Well, i knew the basics; how rainbows are created, the basic function of an “old” light bulb, and the basic facts behind creating a shadow. Nothing to exiting, we also had to write some question we thought this project would help us answer

as you can see⬇️ 

  

, (heads up, non of my questions actually got answered, but as mr.Gross says “we’ll probably go it on more depth on that subject if you take physics 11”, i might consider)

 

Lets just keep going..

Then over the weeks of this projet we did a couple science work book pages and a fare share of math work book pages too, learning all about the Pythagorean theorem 😅😟 a lot to learn and a pretty long process but i liked it, also a lot on the square and square root of number ( new information to me). And around our half way point we did a quiz on our knowledge on the Pythagorean theorem. 

One of the milestones we had to do was a group project, I did it with  with Ava, Sara, Makenna and me, we were given a; ray box (a box on light), protractor, mirror, pencil and some feet (to hold up the mirror)

This is what we did ⬇️

 And this milestone was an individual project; we were given a link to this  website (https://ricktu288.github.io/ray-optics/simulator_old/) with the intentions to create a model on a right angles triangle with all the proper measurements, the use of in,y a single beam from a laser, the angles of reflections, the use of protractors and rulers also to make sure to label everything and if you wanted to be fancy you could no measure one side of the triangle and use the Pythagorean theorem to find the measurement. 

This is mine, I labeled what everything is, used ruler to measure two sides and used protractors to measure the normal and i only used one single beam of light

Here is my write up on this project specifically 

And last but not least The last milestone 

DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAA

This was yet to be another group project with the same people 🤯, don’t worry I’m not complaining, at last non of them are slackers anyway…. 

For this last milestone we did ALOT. And just for this we learned one last piece of extra information to spice up our project 

Percent difference  (It’s for really complicated)  

So… I’m basic turns we just needed to put that milestone onto paper.

This is i t

First we wrote down; the drive in questions, the hypotheses and materials then that’s where to real work comes in….. writing to procedure and creating the physical  model and then writing the conclusion 

We used a couple pieces of cardboard and construction papers, a few mirrors, 6 feet (mirror holder uppers) a single laser and a whole lot of gold and silver marker ink 

Ok so that was this whole project deprecated into parts😅 that part is over now 

One last part 

Curricular competency’s 

Anyway lets just get it over with 

Ok let go for it 😅

I think I demonstrated  “a sustainable intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem or personal interest” using all my class time effectively and efficiently, through out this reject i think i bring home 3 pieces of work max to work on at home, and they were more less all just work sheet questions, and i tried to be as helpful to my group[ as possible and not distract others who were in a “productive flow” 

I think i demonstrated a good “representation of mathematic ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms” by labeling all the proper part of my right angle triangle my iPad, used the Pythagorean theorem in proper context and did the formula correctly and also measured everything correct (the legs and hypotenuse, angles of reflections, the normal ext.)  and made it as accurate as possible and on every milestone if possible 

And last but not least 

I think i represented my knowledge on “co-operative designed projects” by letting all group members do there part and spread out the work load as evenly as possible also by building our  physical laser display as accurately as possible with all our part properly labeled, measurement properly measured and all the material listed with a nice finding conclusion 

✨YAY✨ this blog post is over 

For now😏…

Anyway thank you for reading through me blog and i think all hope of this blog eventually transforming into a food blog is pointless 

Sorry to say but there is no light at the end of the tunnel 

Thank you for listening to my ted talk 🥲

Hannah