1) The exact location of our landmark was 40 degrees 6 feet 14 north and 105 degrees 8 feet 38 west.
2) The GPS was mainly accurate on the steering it provided.
3) You could use the GPS if you were lost in a mall you didn’t know your way around. You could mark the stores visited and front entrance so you wouldn’t become lost.
Day 1-Activity 2
1) What forms of
transportation make up the Integrated Freight Plan?
Highways, cargo ports, railroads, airports, pipelines, and inter modal
facilities.
2) How do these work together? The shipment arrives at the port, where
it is then loaded into trucks and delivered to railroads and airports.
Trains and airplanes then take it to its destination.
3) Why are Maine’s ports so successful? Maine’s ports are so successful
because they are the least expensive on the east coast. They also
provide inexpensive storage for incoming shipments. They have some of
the newest piers and equipment. Maine is the gateway to Canada from the
USA as well as being the closest state to Europe, so it is the center
of importing and exporting goods.
Day 2-Activity 1
Some branches at the Department of Transportation overseas include federal Aviation Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transport Administration, Federal Maritime Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Surface Transportation Board. Three of its civilian service branches are Aviation, Commuter, and Cars, Buses, and Bikes. Our favorite branch was the state transportation branch because Boulder happens to have a lot of buses and bike paths that make it easy to get from one place to another, especially if you’re a tree-hugger like most Boulderians are.
Day 3-Activity 1
A magnet is an object that is surrounded by a magnetic field and that has the property, either natural or induced, of attracting iron or steel. The maglev uses magnetism with magnetic elevation. The magnets along the base side of the maglev exerts a magnetic fields in contrast with the steel bars on the tops of the rails create movement at opposite poles. The reason the maglev Is not a very popular idea in the USA so far is because there is not enough support from the Department of Transportation, and this project may undergo construction with a money budget cut in 2010 from LA to Ontario, and thereafter more maglev projects will disembark.
Day 4-Activity 1
The forms of energy used to light the bulb were mechanical, electrical, and thermal energy. I do think that magnetic energy will have a great impact in the transportation industry, for it is pollutant free, low cost in maintenance, and the means of steel opposites to propel the magnets take up no more space than a lane of traffic, yet transport as many as 4 lanes of traffic. Steam power wasn’t used in cars because the energy wasn’t used very efficiently for the cost would be much greater, and the noise would create a loud public disturbance.
Day 12-Activity 1
We noticed about the wind tunnel that shape D was more efficient when it came to aerodynamics and wind propulsion. The streamline blew straight back with the teardrop shape, proving to be superior over all other shapes. Shape A, the square, blew side to side from the back, showing minor turbulence. Shape B, the cylinder, went crazy and blew all over which way the wind took it, showing great turbulence. Shape C, the triangle, blew more to the right side of the shape, showing that it could take an aircraft one way more than the other. To conclude, we found out that shape D, the teardrop, proved to be the best shape aerodynamically.