Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Is it a bird? A plane? No it's physics! - Unit 1

A qualitative observation of this picture is that the railing is brown, the surface looks smooth, it looks hard like metal, and has many straight edges. Another qualitative observation is that the ocean is blue.

A quantitative observation of this picture, is that there are six big buildings (that are a little hard to see) in this picture. There is also one airplane in the sky, and one crane next to the building.
A qualitative observation of this picture is that the clouds look orange (near sunset) and there is a dark shadow cast on the buildings.

The first picture is a picture of the view I have from my lanai, which can give the reader an idea of how far away the airplane shown in the second picture is from where I took it. The distance from where I took the picture to where the airplane is at this moment is probably about 4 miles away. If I wanted to know roughly how many meters that was I would do the following dimensional analysis:

4 miles X 1.6 kilometers X  1000 meters =  6,400 meters
                     1 mile              1 kilometer
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4 comments:

  1. alexisJune 15, 2011 at 10:24 PM

    For the first picture is there suppose to be something about quantitative observation? Just wondering because in the second picture you have both quantitative and qualitative observations.

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  2. SandraJune 15, 2011 at 10:58 PM

    yeah, i couldn't really find a great example of a quantitative observation so i just did qualitative.

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  3. KahekeJune 16, 2011 at 8:22 AM

    I like how you used pictures that aren't necessarily scientific. It's a great example of qualitative and quantitative and I really liked how you did the calculations for the distance to the airplane.

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  4. UnknownJune 16, 2011 at 4:08 PM

    Nice pictures and use of observations and dimensional analysis. Also, very pretty blog.

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