Electricity Homework

9.1 A
9.1 D
9.1 E
9.1 F

Static Electricity Lab

The lab was quite interesting, and almost everyone got their share of discharges. The class went upstairs to another classroom, and took turns being electrocuted. Alyx had volumey hair, so what happened was not surprising.

Alyx with her hairlo (Ha! Ha! Get it? HAIRLO! HAAHAH)
(Taken by Rebecca)

Afterwards, I was chosen to be at the end of a chain of guys standing on Styrofoam, and I was near the sink. Mr. Brown told me to try to bend the water, but the splattering of the water caused electrical charges every 750ms or so,which shocked me and everyone in the line.

It was a great experience.  Oh and I suppose I should mention that the Styrofoam is for insulation, allowing the person to act as a fleshy Leyden jar and storing the static charges instead of instantly depositing them into the ground.

And the hair stood up because the electrons, moving through the generator, through the hands, and to the hair,  repelled each other, causing light things like hair to rise.

Digital Backpack

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TYKTWD

My dad works at Polycom, where he does board bringup and drivers for office phone and teleconference hardware. He showed me how he gets latest code from CVS, and looks for causes of reported bugs or problems. An example was when after a USB host driver was unloaded, the device continued using a ton of power. It turns out the problem was someone forgot to deinitialize the driver after it unloaded, causing the power management to think the driver still needed a lot of power. Adding the deinit() function fixed it.  

Afterwards we went to a sushi place where I saw Derek, and then I went with some of my dad's friends and former colleagues to the company where he used to work. There were only 3 people there, including me, so I got an office to myself. I was somewhat bored after a while, so they gave me a single-board computer, and gave me the assignment of getting Android to run on it. They had Linux running on all of the computers, which I haven't used too much before, but I was successful in the end. But then I learned that they accidentally gave me the wrong version of the x-load bootloader which caused the usb peripherals to not work. So while I got Google Android to run on it, I couldn't do any thing on it. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Methanol

Here it is!

And here are the citations!

Ions and stuff

Ions and stuff

History of the Atom

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History of the Atom