Monday, March 31, 2008

Ohm's Law

Who is Ohm and what is his law? Also what does his law have to do with how electricity move through your home?

Friday, March 28, 2008

Congrats

Congrats to everyone that was at Science Fair Yesterday. I'm really proud of all of you, a job well done. How is static electricity created? Is their any place in your home in which you get a shock when you walk through it?

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Electricity

What is the best type of choice for generating electricity?

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Open vs Closed

Which is the best types of circuit system for you home a open or closed circuit system?

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Electricity

How is lightning formed???

Monday, March 24, 2008

Internal Combustion Engines

How does and internal combustion engine work? And what is an example of what they are used for?

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Thermodynamics

What is thermodynamics and what are the two laws of thermodynamics? How do they apply to your lives, examples?

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Solar Heating

What are the two types of solar heating and how do they different from one another?

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Insulators

What is an insulator and how is it built? Also what are they used for?

Monday, March 17, 2008

Controlling Heat Flow

Why do we need to control heat flow? Give an example of something that controls heat flow.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Radiation

How does radiation travel through the different stages of matter? Give an example to go along with your definition.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Food

Does the food we eat have energy in it? If so how are our bodies able to use that energy? How can we determine that amount of energy that is found within our food?

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Measuring Specific Heat

What is used to measure specific heat of an object? What are the steps that are to be able to measure the specific heat? If this something that you can use to help measure specific heat of an object at home, why?

Monday, March 10, 2008

Different Parts of the Country

In different parts of the U.S, there are different types of heating systems. Why is this and what are some of the different types of heating systems that are found around the different parts of the U.S.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Lava Lamp

How does a lava lamp work? And if you could make your own lava lamp what materials would you use?

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Heating

What are the three main heating systems and how do they compare to solar heating?

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Its over

Now that science fair is over what is the best part about being done with science fair? And what was the coolest project, other than your own, that you saw yesterday?

Monday, March 3, 2008

Thermal Energy

From the video that we watched on Friday explain the procedure of determining the specific heat of an object.