Weeeeeeeee!

So I am super excited that it is almost the end of the year! I have attended many of my friends graduations this weekend and I'm excited mines is next :) Physics has been a huge rollercoaster of laughs and . . . bad grades. Hahahaha :) Oh well :) Anyways, thanks for everything Doc! Even though we may have given you more than enough white hairs. So this past weekend I parked in Aina Haina shopping center so I could go get myself a subway sandwhich :) On the way there, there was this shiny thing on the ground. I walked closer and only found a puddle of liquid. But then I recalled physics! The liquid on the ground was not water, but oil! Light is refracted upon the thin layer creating what seems like a rainbow on asphault! Well, that's it! Bye bye physics!

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So my weekend was very fun-filled. Lots of BASEBALL. We're 5th in the state & ILH champs :) I'm going to miss baseball SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much :( Especially since it has everything to do with physics (projectile motion!). Friday after the baseball game I went to sandy beach. The waves were huuuuuuge, and BLUE! Yup, the blue ocean has everything to do with physics! Water absorbs longer wavelengths of light such as Red and Infared. Shorter wavelengths such as blue and ultra violet are not absorbed, thus why the ocean appears cyan/blue! Then, all of a sudden this man was hurt so someone called 911. The ambulance and police came with their sirens on demonstrating the Doppler Effect! Then last night I had a prom to go to. It was pretty fun :) 

Sun rays, go away :)

So this weekend I drove, a lot :) While I was driving on the freeway, the sun's rays were glaring into my eyes so I had to drive squinting. How inconvenient! I believe the rays were reflecting off of the asphault pavement and directly into our windshield. Instead of panicking, I grabbed my handy dandy sun glasses, which were horizontally polarized, and I was able to see the road almost as clear as before. So, yay for sun glasses. They're life savers, literally :)

Light

So I was sick this whole week which sucked because I stayed home (besides the baseball game which I had very important business attending!) Well anywayyyyy, I only remember that I learned about light polarization. We were given filters and looked through them at certain lights such as reflection off of windows. When you turn the filter 90 degrees, it would sometimes turn black and is no longer transparent! Those light particles are polarized! (Because light is an electromagnetic wave! :) Yay for physics!

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This weekend was family fair!!!! At the fair I saw a carebear prize that I really wanted to win. In order to win the "big" prize, you had to throw a plastic ball into these metal milk jugs. And not just one ball...THREE! I spent a lot of money trying to win the bear, and each time I would adjust my formation so that the ball would fall into the jugs. No, it did not consist of calculating any angles or velocity, although it does have to do with projectile motion! Unfortunately I did not win, but my friend won it for me :) I also stayed at the Hilton this weekend and  they have new slides! :) I rode them, and it wasn't bad at all. Since so much water was flowing down the slide, my heavy self was able to slip down real fast because there was barely any friction (:

happy easter!

Yay to three day weekends! Btw, happy easter! So my younger cousins came over this afternoon, and they both do not have pierced ears. However there was something on their ears. I went to take a closer peek, and there were magnetic earrings attached to their lobes. Each magnet has a north and a south pole, where opposites attract and like charges repel. Although each magnet appeared very small, the magnetic attraction between the front and backing of each earring was strong enough to stick together with the lobe skin in between. Pretty ridiculous! I also went with a few friends to play tennis. As usual, projectile motion took place! Just a little from last semester (:

magnets!

As a senior, I have been waiting for my college mail. This weekend I got my last letter, and I got into Chapman! Like any excited student, I took my letter and stuck it on the fridge! No silly, not with tape, with a magnet!!! In order for the magnet to stick to the fridge, a magnetic field must be present. And don't forget, opposites attract, and like forces repel! Because the magnetic force between my magnet and my fridge is so great, the paper is able to stay up for everyone to admire (: Yay to physics!