5-1-09

Today is the first day of the month of May. Although the weather was telling a different story. Despite the poor weather the students of Mr Manning's fifth period physics class were excited to start the another day of expanding their physics knowledge. After the class was settled we began class with the always appreciated and highly anticipated daily question. At first most were confused by the todays question, after some helpful hints from Mr. Manning more people began to understand. Finally after a well thought explanation from Mr. Manning the class knew exactly how to answer the question. After the daily question Mr. Mannning seamlessly transitioned into a demonstration of a different style of harmonic. The type of harmonic we learned about was an open ended harmonic. After seeing Mr. Manning demonstrate Taylor also gave it a try and had some success. We learned that changing from a fixed end to an open end changes what you would measure the harmonic with. You would go from measure half wavelengths to measuring quarter wavelengths. After this we were given a second chance on our lab from the previous day. Many people made the mistake of measuring in feet instead of meters. With just minutes to spare most of the class was able to fix their mistakes and return their lab corrected. After the students were done with this we were assigned homework that would be checked on monday. Some students got it done in class others were forced to have to finish it another time.