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 :)