Nicholas Chong Act Summaries

Humanities

Act 1: Purpose: What happens to different bulbs when wires of the circuit are disconnected at a certain point. Summary: We are to disconnect the wires to see whether or not the bulb would light up Learned: If one part of the circuit is disconnected than the entire circuit goes out. Thus therefore it does not work Act 2: Purpose: To test the objects to see if they conduct electricity Summary: To place various and different items or objects in a circuit to see if the items are conductors. Learned: Non-metallic objects don t conduct metallic objects Act 3: Purpose: What does a compass tell about a circuit and how can we apply it in our daily lives Summary: Place a compass at the bottom of a wire then see whether there is a deflection Learned: If the cells are added there is more deflection, if the battery orientation is switched then the compass deflects in the other direction Act 4: Purpose: How are the genecom and battery cells similar Summary: See how many turns one could get to match the brightness of the circuit with batteries Learned: Turning the genecom faster pumps the charges faster thus causing the bulbs to be more brighter Act 5: Purpose: How does the bulb type affect charging and discharging in a capacitor Summary: Changing the capacitor through the long bulbs and we changed them through the round bulbs Learned: The round bulb have less resistance, thus therefore it would take less time to change through the round bulb and the longer through the long bulb Act 6: Purpose: To identify the difference in blowing through different types of straws Summary: We tried blowing through a coffee straw and a soda straw Learned: We learned that the coffee straw was similar to the long bulb which had more resistance, while the round bulb was like the soda straw because it had less resistance

Nicholas Chong

Humanities

Act 7: Purpose: How does the number of bulbs affect the overall resistance of a circuit Summary: We were able to find out that if we added more bulbs the brightness got lower Learned: The more bulbs placed in a circuit, the dimmer the light bulbs would be. Act 8: Purpose: How does the number of bulbs affect a parallel circuit Summary: The brightness remained the same Learned: When more bulbs were added the flow rate increased and the resistance decreased Act 9: Purpose: What do pressure differences in circuits tell us about their behavior Summary: We color coded different circuit and saw how the pressure changed Learned: The more colors means that the pressure is lower, therefore the circuit won t be as bright