Week 5

              

• The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did

- The big question that we worked with in lab this week had to do with the safest material that a playground's ground should be made of. Each group got an egg, and we had to create a safe ground made out of different options of materials. My group did a base of sand, wood chips, rubber chips, and then a layer of hay on top. We then dropper the egg from 1 meter. Our egg survived the first drop, so we added a little more sand and hay, and dropped the egg again, but this time at a height of 2 meters. Our egg broke the second drop. This lab helped us to understand how energy is transferred when dropped and how it is absorbed based on the different materials. 

• A description of what you learned in Thursday's lecture.

- This week in lecture we took our Physics exam

• Answer questions about the weekly textbook reading:

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