Friday, September 30, 2011

Final Outline

Background Report
Al Weber

1) Introduction
A)   My science fair is about living science. To be more specific alternative energies from horse manure.
B)   I will compare the energy created by horse manure to two average local woods to determine if using horse manure, as energy is economically right.


2) History of horse manure
        A) Pioneers used buffalo chips for fires
        B) Horse manure could possibly be used also


3) Known researches of horse manure
     A) Texas A&M
            a) converted manure into gas
                         b) creates 650 million BTU a year

4) How to make into bricks
             A) How to make a brick maker
b) collect piece of plywood or two by fours
                        c) screw together to make a box
                                    d) leave top open and make a lid
                                                e) attach wooden dowel  to top
B) How to compress manure
             a) fill brick maker with wet manure in trash bag
                        b) press lid down hard
                                    c) let brick dry
                                                d) ready to burn

5) Conclusion
    A) Dried manure has been used ever since…
    B) It is being researched to harness…
    C) in order to make it efficient ….

30 september

Home work: page 70-80
take 1 page of notes

Warm up: fill in the blanks:
t(sec)           x(Ft)          v (ft/sc)            a (ft/s/s)
0                   0                  0                      ---
.25                1                  4                      16
.5                  4                  12                    32
.75                9                  20                    32
1.0               16                 28                    32

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Science Fair Bibliography


(Davies, 2004)(Curry, 2007)
(Hooker, 1998)
(State Enegry Conservation office, 2006)
(Texas A&M University, 2011)
(Rueda, 2002)


Bibliography

Curry, C. (2007 йил 4th-November). Ocala. (A. Parsons, Editor, & A. Parsons, Producer) Retrieved 2011 йил 26th-september from www.ocala.com: http://www.ocala.com/article/20071104/NEWS/211040352?p=4&tc=pg
Davies, S. (2004). The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894. (F. f. Education, Ed.) The Freeman , 54 (7), 1.
Hooker, R. J. (1998). backwoodshome. Retrieved 2011 йил 26th-september from www.backwoodshome.com: http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/hooker87.html
Rueda, G. D. (2002). California State Science Fair. Retrieved september 27, 2011, from www.usc.edu: http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2002/Projects/J0928.pdf
State Enegry Conservation office. (2006). Seco. Retrieved september 27, 2011, from www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us: http://www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us/re_biomass-manure.htm
Texas A&M University. (2011, July 6). Research. Retrieved september 27, 2011, from tammi.edu: http://tammi.tamu.edu/research.html







Ball drop # 1


Ball drop graph number 2


27 september notes

1. get mentor agreement out


2. Acceleration is.....


Answer 2) change in velocity in time
how fast something... how something gets f-f-fast
Gain speed
Is spelled a c c e l e r a t i o n