Monday, November 22, 2010

Mechanical Advantage

Mechanical Advantage is the ratio of the output force produced by a machine to the applied input. One simple machine that is effected by mechanical advantage is the wedge. The mechanical advantage of a wedge is that the longer and thinner it is, the greater the mechanical advantage is. It's given by the ratio of the length of its slope to its width.





Progress on Rube Goldberg Project
We drew out our plan, and will start working on it next class period.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

What makes life significant?

Many things make life significant, but one of the most important things to me is my friends and family. My life would be insanely boring without my friends,so to sum it up, I would pretty much have no life. They are always there for me, no matter what happens. My family is the same way, there always there for me,and will always love me. That is what makes life significant for me.

Bullying


I think that the bullying at our school has some what gotten better, but it is still not acceptable. There are three types of bullying that are the most common, verbal, physical, and mental bullying. And especially cyber bullying because of our new lap tops. At our school, bullying is always been a problem, and the staff at our school has really tried to solve this problem with numerous amounts of ideas. The only problem with these new ideas is that some immature students don’t take it seriously, and make a joke about it. I think that the whole school should get together and figure out these problems, and find solutions, so that people don’t get hurt, physically and mentally.