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Portfolio unit 3
● I like to do is take very cold water and very hot water and drop into each a small drop
of food coloring and you can see the results as they mix the faster mixing hot water
demonstrates that the molecules are moving much more quickly with higher
temperature here's another experiment you can try go to the kitchen and get a coffee
filter and drop it from a measured height the coffee filter will reach terminal velocity
almost instantly and so it will fall at a constant speed measure that speed then add
another coffee filter and see how that affects the results graph and determine the slope
of your graph go to the computer room and get a CD and go to the garage and get a
flashlight and shine the flashlight on that CD you'll notice it breaks up the light into
its component colors that's called diffraction the surface of a CD is coated with a
whole bunch of tiny little lines and those lines act as a diffraction grating you can do
this at home and you can actually measure the wavelength of light if you know the
spacing between the lines or if you know the wavelength of light you can measure the
spacing between the lines using the diffraction formula here's one of my favorite
experiments raid the pantry for some baking powder and fill a small container with it
it should look like the surface of the Moon simulate a meteor impact by dropping a
marble from various Heights the height will determine the kinetic energy of the
marble when it hits the baking powder it will make an impact crater based on the
height the impact craters diameter will be different measure the diameter and see if
you can work backwards to predict how far the marble fell from good luck.