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Hey guys... guess what? I have this thing. A thing that makes it the hardest possible task in to world to do when you have to write a blog: WRITERS BLOCK.

So yeah... Today I will be talking about Wave Properties. Thus my insanely weird title. Okay so let's go over some vocab words...

Frequency: The number of times a wave passes a given point in one second. It's measured in hertz, or waves p/s. Frequency is also related to wavelength. A wave with a shorter wavelength will have a higher frequency, and vice versa. So let's say they wanted to see what the frequency of a wave was. If the wave passed the point 8 times in one second, the frequency would be 8. Easy as pie... or finding the frequency of a wave...

Amplitude: Distance between the crest and midpoint of a wave. The amplitude is also the measure of how much energy a wave is carrying- more energy means a higher amplitude. A large sound wave is more likely to hurt your ears because it has a greater amplitude.

Steps to get this photo
Step 1: Download brainpop app and watch video on your phone.
Step 2: Take screenshot at appropriate part of video.
Step 3: Go into your photo library and crop the photo.
Step 4: Email it to yourself and attach it to blog via the internet. 

  Next were going to talk about... FIREWORKS!!! Did you know that the reason that you hear a fireworks display before you see it is because sound travels at 343 meters p/s, while light travels at about 300 million meters p/s, which is pretty blooming fast (only the people who saw the lights video in my last blog will get that one). 

  Okay, so the speed of a wave can be caused by many different things. The formula for speed is speed= distance/time. So all of these factors determine how fast a wave is!

A picture that really sums everything up! 

  Okay guys well that is my blog...hmm... for some reason I typed "long" and had to go back and fix it.. SuperSaraSuperBye!

Oh Meeba's Blog (Fatima)
Kiwi's (Or preferably LaTisha's) Blog
Logan's Blog

Wave Properties- Pretty Basic Stuff

A Kid's Website for You Younger Folks

I have decided that Caroloke's birthday is August 17th. It's the first date that popped in my head. 

I "wave" to You Hello

Hey guys, SuperSara here, and today I'm going to be talking about waves. Well that was a really boring intro, wasn't it? Oh well. So today we have to talk about the relationship between waves, energy, and matter. I haven't learned this yet, so PLEASE bear with me. By the end of the blog we both will know more!

  Okay, so during every moment of our lives, we are struck with waves of energy. Most energy waves collide with us or pass right through us, and we don't even notice. Another big part about waves is matter. Waves carry energy, not matter.  But, matter can be used to transfer waves. Let's go over a few vocab words. 

Mechanical Waves:  Waves that use matter to transfer energy. Water, sound, and earthquake waves are examples. 

Medium: The matter used to transport waves. Mediums can either be solid, liquid, or gas. 

The Medium here woud be water; This is an example of a mechanical wave. 

Electromagnetic waves: Waves that do not require matter to transfer energy are electromagnetic waves. Radio waves, x-rays, microwaves, and visible light waves are examples. They can all travel through empty space and all travel at the same speed, which is sometimes called the speed of light. 

  Now let's talk about tranverese/ longitudinal (I prefer to call them tuna) or compression waves. Mechanical waves can be classified into either one according to the motion of matter involved, while electromagnetic waves are a special type of transverse wave.

Tuna or Compression waves: Mechanical waves in which medium matter moves forward and backward in the same direction the wave travels. 

A slinky is an example of L/C waves

Transverse waves: These can be classified into Mechanical waves, and yet electromagnetic are a special type of transverse. Matter moves up and down or back and forth at right angles, compared to the direction of movement. 

Now for a short little story about Leonardo Da Vinci. 

  Once upon a time, in the fifteenth century, Da Vinci was sitting in his office, and he observed an observation about waves. (because that's totally not what this blog is about ;) He observed that while waves move, the medium does not. He then stood up and said "Like the waves made in a field of grain by the wind, where we see the waves running across the field while the grain stays in place." He basically meant that waves move the medium. 

Here is a really cool video by the most awesome british guy on youtube, Charlieissocoollike. In this video, he talks about lights, but he also has some pretty cool stuff to say about waves too.  And yes, I know, the video sticks out of the frame. That is my blog. Oh well. Live on your lives, people. 

  Well, that is really it for this blog, and I hope you enjoyed. Below you will find some links. SuperSaraSuperBye!!

Oh Meeba's Blog (Fatima)
Kiwi's (Or preferably LaTisha's) Blog
Logan's Blog

Waves for Kids

Discovery Waves

A very special thanks to teebs for reminding me! Happy Caroloke day!

I haven't showered since last year ;)

  Well, hi. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, all that stuff, because well, I have to say it. Ummmmmmmm I hope everyone had a good break, mine was pretty usual. Welcome to the first blog post of the year, since it's 2012 now... yippee doo.

  Well Christmas in my opinion is the best holiday of the year (besides my birthday, which ahem, as of January 3rd it is 4 months and 24 days away!) You get to see your family, get really awesome presents, and you get to buy a tree! And glee's annual Christmas album comes out! :) And their Christmas episode! Another thing I love about Christmas is that all my favorite shows have Christmas themed episodes, which are fun to watch on Christmas eve, or even the weeks before that to just get you excited about it!

  Okay, so I'm basically gonna talk about my holidays: 

CHRISTMAS EVE: 

  Well for Christmas eve My dad and I always go to my Uncle and Aunt's house in Athens. My dad brought his friend and her daughter who's about my age, and she was nice, even though she was on her phone the whole time. But anyways, we got there and ate a smaller dinner than usual, but still big, Christmas dinner. After that we opened presents and I got about $70, a vera bradley bag (that I now keep my NEW LAPTOP in!!!!), and a starbucks card! Yum! 

The EXACT  bag I got.

 After that we played Mario Kart, and I PWNED. NEVER DOUBT HOW AWESOME I AM AT MARIO KART. Never. Then we played Taboo, and made the horrible, awful, no good choice of being the score keeper, and everything "was my fault". We ended up spending the night. 

Me with a mario kart wheel on my face :)

CHRISTMAS DAY:

 Well, I slept in that day, later than I was supposed to, and the rest of my family at my mom's house opened gifts without me, and there was still and hour and a half drive back there. So, overall, I was tired and depressed. On the way there we listened to Christmas music, and it was fun and got me in the spirit. We got to my mom's house finally, Starbucks in hand. When I got there, there were still some presents for me, and I ended up getting a glee calendar ad sweatshirt, a couple of shirts, and a new flat iron! Yay!

One of the t-shirts I got. Funny right?

  After that I watched a movie (The Help, and it was pretty good.) a basically chilled out until Christmas dinner which consisted of chicken and potatoes! Yum!

I had to!!!!

NEW YEARS EVE/ DAY:

  For New years eve I was invited to my friend Zoe's Party, along with her friends Isa and Mcall, and her brother Jeremy and his friend Jesse. When I got there we pigged out on candy, and then they ate zours, aka the candy that makes my head bleed (yeah don't ask) right in front of me, and we also did mad libs, with some hilarious fill-ins. At about 10 I was getting really tired, so we deciced to go to starbucks. 

Isa, Mcall, Me, and Zoe.

 "The Isa Smile" 

  After we convinced Zoe's dad to take us, Mcall and I went to get everyone delicious coffee drinks, while Zoe and Isa stayed home with the guys to make sure they didn't blow anything up (I'm not kidding). I got a frappucinno and on the way home Jesse's hot cocoa spilled on my pants and they made fun of me for it... sigh... so kindergarden. Anyways, at midnight we watched the ball drop and 2012 began. Which brings me to my next topic....

LOOK! It says 2012 with our fingers! 

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS:

1. To make good grades, blah blah blah.

2. To not let high school change me, because I'm pretty awesome, and modest too! ;) hehe

3. To not lose friends.

4. To still love my family as much as I do right now :)

5. To not let friend's bad habits affect me.

6. To care less what people think about me or anything I do.

7. To be positive, and try not to yell at anyone.

This year I'm looking forward to going to high school (squeal), but I'll be very sad to leave Shreiner! I really hope these last five months will be super fantabulistiicious, and that my grades are good enough to graduate. See you next time! SuperSaraSuperBye!!!

Good 'ol Caroloke. 

It's Loch-ed Up! Is Nessie Real?

                                                 

  Have you ever heard of the Loch Ness Monster (or Nessie as some people call her)? Well of course you have, and at one point you may have believed. I don't believe as of NOW! (November 30th, 2011). But maybe after I write this blog post I will, who knows? According to Urban Dictionary Loch Ness Lake is:

The popular huge loch located in scotland, with memorable sites still standing believed to be the home to scotland's beloved nessie, the world famous Loch Ness Monster.

 Okay, so here are some basic facts about Nessie.

• The first "sight" was in 1933, and the newspapers blew up with articles on her.
• The fist photo of Nessie was taken by George Spicer in 1934. There's a big story about this photo, known as "The Surgeon's Photograph", I'll explain it below. 

The First Photo

• One of the most famous sightings was on May 24th, 1960. The same guy again saw her 3 days later, on the 27th (also known as my birthday).... creepy.
• Nessie is known to live in Loch Ness (thus her name) in The Scottish Higlands, in Scotland, obviously. 
• The earliest report of a monster associated with the name of Loch Ness appears in the Life of St. Columba by Adomnán, written in the 7th century, so stories of Nessie have been around for a while now. 
• In 1938, a man named William Fraser wrote a letter saying that there was no doubt that Nessie was real. He said that a hunting party was needed, and that they should catch her dead or alive. The note was not released until about a year ago.

  Okay, so The Surgeon's Photograph. This photograph was taken in 1934 by George Spicer, as I said above. He was fishing and saw her, and took five photographs (two of them were clear, and they used the first one). It was first published in the newspaper, "The Inverness Courier". In 1975 the photo was proved fake, and it tuned out the photo was made by Robert Kenneth Wilson, and George Spicer wanted nothing to do with it, so he asked the newspaper to put it as "The Surgeon's Photograph".


  It turned out that the photograph was actually a toy submarine with a sea-serpent head attached to it, which makes it fake.

They cropped this photo into the one you see above because they wanted Nessie to look bigger.

  Okay, so there are many explanations as to why the Loch Ness Monster is there, if she even is (I honestly doubt it). The most common one is that it's just another animals, such as an eel, or a seal. In 2001, two eels were found on the coast of Loch Ness (The lake not the monster). They were conger eels, which are only found in salt water and are the longest eels in the world. Some think they were placed in the water to look like "Mini-Nessie's". But who knows?

  Many other objects such as trees, or even optical effects such as wind that add to it (yeah right). But most people just say it's a long amphibian, like a newt. Anyways, hopefully you have learned some cool sutff, and maybe you believe, maybe you don't. I sure don't.... SuperSaraSuperBye!!!

Top Nessie Website
Skeptic's Dictionary
Informative Nessie Site
Oh Meeba's Blog (Fatima)
Kiwi's (Or preferably LaTisha's) Blog
Logan's Blog

 

Now it just would not be a blog without Caroloke. Yes I finally named him. Or her? Hmmm....

  

  

Leaf It to Me! (Get it??) Bahahahahaha....

HEY GUYS!!! Happy 11-11-11!!! The leaves are falling on this beautiful Autumn day! Well,  actually, it's really cold today, and tonight it's finally gonna reach freezing. Ah Southern winters... So anyways, today were going to be talking about leaves, and I promise to stop talking like a weather girl now.

This is the one time I will use picnik!!!

  So, have you guys ever wondered why the leaves are green in the spring and summer, but then once September hits they start turning red/orange/yellow? This is because of Chlorophyll, a substance that helps plants make energy, or food. It makes the plant green!



   Well, once summer ends and the days get shorter (because there is less sun in the fall), the chlorophyll does not get the amount of food required to survive, and it dies. So the green goes away, and the leaves natural colors begin to appear, the red/brown/yellow. The leaves also have to steal nutrients from the tree to survive, and once the tree doesn't have enough to share, the leaves slowly begin to die. Their stems get weak, and rain or wind make them fall to the ground. The leaves eventually rot into the ground.

  Now for the next topic... SEASONS!!!

  Okay so know how we have seasons? Well yeah, of course you do, but do you know why we have them? So let me tell you a story...

Once upon a time there were two best friends named Earth and Sun. Earth and Sun have been best friends for millions of years and get to spend everyday with each other. This is because the earth revolves around the sun and spins itself around at the same time. (Fun Fact: globes are titled to represent the tilt of the earth's axis, about 23.5 degrees)

  So, the Sun and the Earth are moving together, and again, the earth is spinning above, while it spinning around the sun. This rotation takes about 365 days, or a year! Here's an animation.

  So, since the earth is tilted, the sun can't hit ALL things at once. So, if the earth is hitting the northern hemisphere, the days are long and hot. But at the same time: what about the southern hemisphere?(In case your wondering, the north hemp is the top half of the equator, and the southern is the bottom half) It's getting almost no sun at all. In fact, there are days in the summer and the winter where it is 24 hrs light.darkness. Wow! 

  So it could be Winter here and Summer in Australia! It's weird to think about sometimes, I know! SuperSaraSuperBye! Click on the links below! 

Teeb's Blog

Kiwi's Blog

Logan's Blog (gotta find a nickname)

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HE'S BAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!

USE THE FORCE!

  Hey guys... SuperSara here listening to Pandora in science class doing work. But... am I doing "work"? Everyone who is reading this probably is thinking "Um.. yes?". Well, work in the scientific world means something totally different. Let's say that Fatima made me so mad I wanted to push down a wall (which has happened before). Could I push down a wall? No no no no, seriously (no bellatrixly, haha) you look up weak in a thesaurus and my name is there. Let's also say that I was pushing a book across the table. Which is more work?

  If you answered the wall... you're wrong! That's because work is when you use force and distance. So, I might use more force to push down the wall, but is it going anywhere? No, it's not, so it's not work. When I'm using force to push the notebook, but at least i twas going somewhere.

  Another thing you should know is that work is measured in these things called Joules. Work also has math related to it. The formula for work is W=FD or work is force multiplied by distance. So let's say I was pushing a bag of chips across the table to someone, and I was using 2 newtons of force, and I was pushing the chips 6 inches away. 2 x 6 = 12. So, I would be using 12 joules of work. Easy as pie!

  So now let's talk about positive and negative work! This is just like with buoyancy; It's super easy. Let's say Katie was tossing me the same bag of chips, and I caught it. She was doing work by throwing them to me. right? Well, work involves force and distance, so yes, she was doing work. When I caught them, was I doing work? Trick question... I was negative work. Another example would be me pushing the wall again... it's not going anywhere, so it's not work. Let me explain it a little bit better...

  Well... That's really it! Hope you guys enjoyed! Check out the extra links below, and as always, SuperSaraSuperBye!!!!

Teeba Tub's Blog

Kiwi's Blog

FINALLY!! Logan's Blog :)

Sparknotes: GREAT WEBSITE!

As always, the big smiley!