museum of science field trip.

       





our physical science class recently took a trip to the Boston Museum of Science. this blog is an overall review of our experiences and what we learned about friction, movement, and electricity.

    while we were in the museum we saw the Fantastic Forces Presentation. which was meant to educate us on the laws of motion, and friction. we observed the forces of movement take place, for example we saw a pressurized pencil going at 100 miles per hour go through a block of wood. I also l learned that Newton was the scientist who figured out gravity. even though in my opinion everyone already knew what happens when an apple falls out of a tree. he just gave it a name.
  
shortly after the presentation we went to see the rolling ball sculptures which was made by George Rhodes not just for Boston, but for other museums as well. however, the ball, driven by gravity drops down triggering several musical instruments. for the most part however, the ball just went down because it was driven by the forces of gravity. which caused the ball to go down which triggered the instruments making several sounds and noises. that was all of the sculp0ture.

    after that we went on to a class on engineering and we built bobsleds. my bobsled got a time of 1.36 seconds which was one of the fastest while albert won with 1.33 seconds. my bobsled had a leopard print kind of cloth on top of it. it also had two batteries to make it go faster. I ended up not naming it because I don't like naming thing after we completed the engineering course we went to see my favorite part of the museum,.

we saw the electric show. it showed us how powerful electricity really is. they used electric pulses to make the musical notes from star wars, and other musical numbers. they also used electricity to make peoples hair rise and explained to us what to do in a lightning storm. then for the finale the scientist who was running the whole thing went into a completely metal cage. then he mad the cage be electrocuted with what I can only imagine to be hundreds of thousands of bolts of electricity. that was the conclusion to the experiment and really to the field trip.