Elementary Science II-Week 2
Week 2 1. This week in our lab section, we focused on the question, "How do we make a race exciting between people who run at different speeds?". To answer this question, we used a model of a race between two students. One student is known to be the faster racer, and our model had to demonstrate how we could make the race exciting by figuring out a way for the students to finish the race at similar times, even though they run at different speeds. We made our models in small groups, measured the distance of the race and the speeds of the racers, and determined how long of a head start the slower racer should get so the two racers could finish around the same time. At the end of our lab section, we compared models by racing other groups. 2. In the lecture, I learned more about the math behind finding the distance that a slower racer/ object should get to arrive at similar times as the faster racer/ object. We went through the algorithm, and it was time equals distance over s...