Day1-4/8/04- 1. The
DOT regulates pretty much all transportation systems from airlines to
harbors. The Dot oversees the Marines
- 2. The DOT provides highways, bridges, and community busses to the general community.
- 3. The most interesting branch of the dot is the marines because they have all the action of the DOT not the cars or taxis.
Day2-4/8/04- 1. An integrated freight plan includes roads, ports, airports, trains, and pipelines that span across the country.
- 2. They work together by moving goods to to different areas then drop them off where the other transportation takes over. It is faster and cheaper.
- 3. Marine ports are so successful because it is one of the easiest forms of transportation, and all continents have access to the sea where as they don't access to airports and such so they can still trade.
Day3-4/12/04- 1. A magnet is a piece of metal with polarity so it can be used to attract or repel other pieces of metal.
- 2. The MagLev has two magnets that repel each other so the train literally floats above the ground. This creates less friction and so the train moves very fast.
-3. The magnet transportation system is very expensive and so is hard to implement into our economy thus, we use the magnet trains a lot less
Day4-4/12/04- There were no questions today so I'll tell you what we did. Today we made a mini model of a magnetic train by using simple magnets, and a light foam packaging placer. The magnet train is very effective because with little force from my arm I could send it clear to the end of the 16' track. Guard rails are needed however because without them the train would just go to the side and stick to some other magnets.
Day5-4/14/04- There are no questions today so I'll tell you what we did. We did a hull module to see how different hulls effect when weight was placed in them. For example a flat hull is semi stable when weight was placed into them but a catamaran hull his a lot more stable then a flat hull and there is less drag then a flat hull but when wait was placed into it the hull sank rather easily because it is not designed to hold much weight.
Day6-4/14/04- 1. Neither hull was unstable when it was empty
2. Neither hull failed or capsized when it was full either until a lot of weight was placed even then the v hull shape failed first with the same amount of weight.
3. I think the v hull shaped boat sank first because it's center of gravity is higher.
Day7-4/14/04- We had no questions today so I'll tell you what we did. First we did the model then I re-took test 3 and 6 i did better on all of them then I answered the checkpoint test and did the critical writing.
Day8-4/16/04- We did not have a journal today so I'll tell you what we did. Today we took up a challenge with Team Alpha to see who could build a stronger boat. I built a pontoon platform, and Team Alpha built a giant v shape hull. After a grueling competition, my boat sank to the bottom of Davy Jone's Locker and Ande's boat was supreme not even taking on water.
Day9-4/20/04- We did not have a journal today so I'll tell you what we did. Having Ande's boat reign supreme I joined his side patched up his boat and tried to see how much weight it could carry with our combined strength. Eventually it held so much it was touching the bottom of the tank and it could still hold more!
Day10-4/22/04- We did not have a journal today so I'll tell you what we did. Today we started the flight simulator on an experimental run. We crashed like 50 times and never really got the hang of it because the instructions were kind of of complicated. We also climbed to an altitude of 100,000 feet then nose dived into a barrel role.
Day11-4/24/04- We did not have a journal today so I'll tell you what we did. Today we made a pre- planned flight in the flight simulator. to Fly around. I am sad to say we did not stay on course because we had no concept of direction with the controls and the plain kept steering off course and getting us lost.
Day12-4/26/04- The result were: 1. The ribbon behind the square block didn't move at all.
2. The streamer behind the cylinder wrapped around the cylinder.
3. The streamer behind the triangle kind of fluttered.
4. The streamer behind the tear drop shaped block went perfectly strait.
Day13-5/11/04- For the last days of our module we worked on a directed problem design brief in which case we had to design a Mag Lev train with propellers and have it move itself across the tracks. We made about 5 different models neither were moving because the power from the propellers was not enough to overcome the friction from the magnets sticking on the side. In the end however we had 2 propellers and 2 engines for each propeller we eventually had our train moving by sheer power. Andy's train on the other hand was so small that it only needed one engine and could move relatively fine.
- 2. The DOT provides highways, bridges, and community busses to the general community.
- 3. The most interesting branch of the dot is the marines because they have all the action of the DOT not the cars or taxis.
Day2-4/8/04- 1. An integrated freight plan includes roads, ports, airports, trains, and pipelines that span across the country.
- 2. They work together by moving goods to to different areas then drop them off where the other transportation takes over. It is faster and cheaper.
- 3. Marine ports are so successful because it is one of the easiest forms of transportation, and all continents have access to the sea where as they don't access to airports and such so they can still trade.
Day3-4/12/04- 1. A magnet is a piece of metal with polarity so it can be used to attract or repel other pieces of metal.
- 2. The MagLev has two magnets that repel each other so the train literally floats above the ground. This creates less friction and so the train moves very fast.
-3. The magnet transportation system is very expensive and so is hard to implement into our economy thus, we use the magnet trains a lot less
Day4-4/12/04- There were no questions today so I'll tell you what we did. Today we made a mini model of a magnetic train by using simple magnets, and a light foam packaging placer. The magnet train is very effective because with little force from my arm I could send it clear to the end of the 16' track. Guard rails are needed however because without them the train would just go to the side and stick to some other magnets.
Day5-4/14/04- There are no questions today so I'll tell you what we did. We did a hull module to see how different hulls effect when weight was placed in them. For example a flat hull is semi stable when weight was placed into them but a catamaran hull his a lot more stable then a flat hull and there is less drag then a flat hull but when wait was placed into it the hull sank rather easily because it is not designed to hold much weight.
Day6-4/14/04- 1. Neither hull was unstable when it was empty
2. Neither hull failed or capsized when it was full either until a lot of weight was placed even then the v hull shape failed first with the same amount of weight.
3. I think the v hull shaped boat sank first because it's center of gravity is higher.
Day7-4/14/04- We had no questions today so I'll tell you what we did. First we did the model then I re-took test 3 and 6 i did better on all of them then I answered the checkpoint test and did the critical writing.
Day8-4/16/04- We did not have a journal today so I'll tell you what we did. Today we took up a challenge with Team Alpha to see who could build a stronger boat. I built a pontoon platform, and Team Alpha built a giant v shape hull. After a grueling competition, my boat sank to the bottom of Davy Jone's Locker and Ande's boat was supreme not even taking on water.
Day9-4/20/04- We did not have a journal today so I'll tell you what we did. Having Ande's boat reign supreme I joined his side patched up his boat and tried to see how much weight it could carry with our combined strength. Eventually it held so much it was touching the bottom of the tank and it could still hold more!
Day10-4/22/04- We did not have a journal today so I'll tell you what we did. Today we started the flight simulator on an experimental run. We crashed like 50 times and never really got the hang of it because the instructions were kind of of complicated. We also climbed to an altitude of 100,000 feet then nose dived into a barrel role.
Day11-4/24/04- We did not have a journal today so I'll tell you what we did. Today we made a pre- planned flight in the flight simulator. to Fly around. I am sad to say we did not stay on course because we had no concept of direction with the controls and the plain kept steering off course and getting us lost.
Day12-4/26/04- The result were: 1. The ribbon behind the square block didn't move at all.
2. The streamer behind the cylinder wrapped around the cylinder.
3. The streamer behind the triangle kind of fluttered.
4. The streamer behind the tear drop shaped block went perfectly strait.
Day13-5/11/04- For the last days of our module we worked on a directed problem design brief in which case we had to design a Mag Lev train with propellers and have it move itself across the tracks. We made about 5 different models neither were moving because the power from the propellers was not enough to overcome the friction from the magnets sticking on the side. In the end however we had 2 propellers and 2 engines for each propeller we eventually had our train moving by sheer power. Andy's train on the other hand was so small that it only needed one engine and could move relatively fine.