Day: 5

Today, we did a lab that at first, I was unsure where it was heading but soon understood easily. I believe that the relationship between just "skate-boarding" (or platform-boarding in our case) and our continuation of learning about kinematics and more specifically about acceleration really brought it all together. During the lab I took a picture of Tom riding the platform-board. It was during one of the many initial attempts and when I took the picture I believe he was not accelerating much at that moment nor had much speed to begin with. Also, although I normally am not very good at math and especially at algebra, with the new equations that we were taught today, were something that I surprisingly understood very well! I also really liked the idea that for this class, we should try to switch our midgets of trying to smash a million problems on one page to using as much room as we need and to organize our thoughts. I believe that this alone made the process much easier as I felt free to write as much as I needed to my thoughts were thoroughly organized and written as I made my way through the problem.