Hello blog readers!

In today’s post, I am going to write about our newly finished Scimiatics project, laser laws. This project was all about the pythagorean theorem and the law of reflection, proving it all with a big project at the end with lasers, mirrors, a right triangle, and even Ghostbusters!

At the start of the project, we learned about light, from the law of relection to colours. We learned about theories about light, like the particle theory and the wave theory. We did a ray box lab where we tested the law of reflection.

We then learned about the pythagorean theorem. We completed some worksheets about square roots and squaring before we moved onto the pythagorean theorem. After we did all of those worksheets, we did a simulator called the ray optics simulator, where we could prove  both the pythagorean theorem and the law of reflection in the simultor, something we would be doing in real life later on in the project.

When we got to the actual project, we didn’t do anything but work on our project. We were supposed to use a laser to prove both the law of reflection (bouncing off mirrors) and the Pythagorean theorem. I was in a group with Charlie, Jasper and Brooke, and we came up with a cool theme, Ghostbusters!

After we finished decorating the display, we put the laser on, and we were all ready for the presentation! We presented our display with a can of smoke, which we put on our laser so everyone could see our laser, and after changing the laser because it was too weak, we were done!

From math to the law of reflection to Ghostbusters, this was a fun project that encompasses all of scimatics, this was a great project!

Core Competencies:

I think for sustaining an intellectual curiosity about a topic I was extending because in the ray optics simulator I was playing around with curving light to see what would happen (the results were really cool!).

I can represent mathematical ideas in symbolic forms because in the law of reflection lab, I proved not just the law of reflection but also focal points and curving light.

I can work with my team very well because we could work well together, and we solved some problems and came up with some great ideas with teamwork.

Thank you blog readers for reading my latest scimatics blog post, and I will see you in the next one!