Ashley Earl the Science Girl; with Gray Philips

Science Project

Science Project

For this project we were assigned to do four things.

1. Pick a song
2. Find 5 frequencies
3. Find 5 wavelengths
4. Remix the song

The song I chose was I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston. In order to find the frequency or wavelength of part of a song, you have to find places with a constant note. Every note has the same wavelength and frequency. 

Time	Frequency	Wavelength	Note
00:45 - 00:46.347	440 Hz	78.4 m/s	A
00:53.534 - 00:53.936	587.33 Hz	58.7 m/s	D
1:18.5 - 1:19.2	493.88 Hz	69.9. m/s	B
1:54.906 - 1:55.188	523.25 Hz	65.9 m/s	C
2:06.895 - 2:07.469	659.26 Hz	52.3 m/s	E
1:28.8 - 1:29.125	698.46 Hz	49.4 m/s	F

When I remixed the song in order to get the males voice I deepened and slowed Whitney's down. This changed the frequency and wavelength.

Listen to the song above!
The first part of the video is the original, the second part is the remix.

Wednesday 3/2

     Today and yesterday we changed out the lenses with clear plastic. This worked much better! We also duct tapped the entire container for protection ( and to make it look more like a space probe ). After testing it a few more times, it was finally ready. Now we  just made a few final touches. This included finding a way to secure the container inside. We did this by creating a draw string with and aglet ( I know its awesome! ). We also named our container, it is the hammer. After that we put the GPS and other devices in the container to make sure they fit. Hopefully the hammer will go into space!!!

Tuesday 3/1

   Today during class we mainly checked our container for flaws. It was full proof ( or so we thought ). Next we put some padding in the new chambers. This took longer than it sounds because we had to pop every single bubble. If we didn't do this the wrapping would expand in space and put too much pressure on the camera. We also worked on the container in Robotics. This is when we discovered we had one problem to fix. Mr. Harrelson tested the various containers ( it seemed more like he was trying to destroy them to me.... and he was successful). Anders and Collins container cracked and all of our lenses were popped. We now knew we had a little more work to do!

Monday 2/28

    We are coming close to finishing our container. The bulk of it is built, but we still have a little ways to go. The main thing that container development accomplished today, was building all of the parts. We added to more compartments to the container in order to have more cameras. We made the other two containers out of koozies ( similar to the built of the rest of the container ). After we finished them we put on the finishing touches ( ceram wrap for the lenses ), then attached the whole project. It was ready for testing! Tomorrow we will see just how well it works.

Classwork

Today, in class, we took the container to see how well it works if we throw it from the bleachers. However, we attached our container to Maybry, Gray, and Elizabeth O.'s group's parachute. When we threw it, it the parachute worked properly, and slowed down the falling of the container, and the Koozies cushioned the fall. We will probably join groups together and work in one large group so that we can make adjustments and changes based on the parachute and the container so that when we test them we can put them together. Our container works very well in terms of safety, stability, and security, but we still need to make another for the digital camera and the phone. Hopefully ours will be the one to go into space.

Aalia, Lauren, and I are working on this project together. You can find this blog post on their websites as well.

Ashley Earl The Science Girl: Newton's Laws

Statistics

Mass: 100 grams
Acceleration: 0.133 m/s^2
Net Force: 133 N

Balloon Car

Dog Days

Over the weekend Morgan and I made this music video at the beach, hope you enjoy!