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Week 3 in pictures
A note or two about our Capture Your 365 project. First, it will become increasing obvious that we are using the daily prompts only as suggestions. It would be quite a stretch to make this week's photos match up, although I'm sure I could come up with some rather fanciful explanations. Second, sometimes we miss a day and make it up the next...or the next. In any case, there are usually plenty of pictures to go around, but if it looks like we've been wearing the same clothes for a day or three in a row, that's probably (note I said probably) not actually true.
Jan 20: Trio
by Cortney
by Calvin
Plus...in the making:
Heating things up with science
From Brownian Motion to boiling points. After discussing Brownian Motion we explored the link between the measurement of temperature and the rate of atomic motion on the invisible scale. Today we demonstrated the nature of the second law of Thermodynamics, and charted the rate of temperature increase over time in water. We heated crushed ice over the stove, measuring its temperature every minute until well past the boiling point. It was fun for Calvin, but a true letdown for the dog, who was hoping we were cooking something delicious and would drop a morsel or two.