4/23/2017 0 Comments Week 12This week we had lost of open work time and writing time. We had to write one longer piece for humanities and two smaller pieces for humanities, so we had a lot of writing on our hands. In Chem, we learned about polymers, monomers, and the polymerization process through a lesson and and experiment in which we made slime. - How does epoxy work? Epoxy is a 50/50 mix of resin and hardener. The hardener acts as a catalyst to the resin, which means adding the hardener to the resin is what causes polymerization. A polymer is a chain of monomers linked together. An example of a polymer is PVA (Elmer's Glue) and borax. The monomer in this situation has two carbons with hydrogen around them on all of it's sides except for one. In the one open spot there's one acetate. This is what makes PVA or Polyvinyl Acetate. The borax acts as the catalyst, and adding it causes all of the monomers in the PVA to link together and create a polymer. Polymerization is just when he catalyst reacts to the monomers and causes them to form bonds with each other in all directions. This experiment help with the project because it helped us know what was going on with the materials we're handling. Now I know why the consistency of the epoxy changes while I mix it. What can we learn from light? What information is in light? Light can teach us about the elements that things like planets and stars are made of. You can tell by the kind of bands it makes when it absorbs light. Light also lets us see color. Color comes from an object absorbing and reflecting a certain energy/color of light. In humanities, we answered the question "How does the work of scientists, artists, and philosophers lead to wonder and curiosity?" In 350+ words. Below is how I responded to the question.
Scientists, artists, and philosophers all deal with life in the lens of their own jobs. They each deal with life and death, creation and destruction, light and dark. In the specific example of light, many people from each of those professions and more (including composers, poets, authors, scholars, and saints) were inspired by the phrase in which Genesis said “Fiat Lux” a Latin which inarguably translates to “Let there be light” in every translation. I think they were inspired by this because of all the different theories on how light began and how light affects life in such a dramatic way. Each of their ideals on light are different, so the phrase hits and inspires them differently. All the different ideals of the old great artist, scientists, and philosophers are some of what has shaped modern creation stories. Most of what people in these professions do, is made to make you wonder. Artists create things with a vision and concept. In the case of some artists, they create for the sole purpose of making others think deeply about what they've created and how it makes them feel. Sometime pieces involve abstract and high concept subject matter, and that makes people curious about what is meant to be portrayed in the piece. The meaning of an art piece can never be exactly known, unless the artist themselves explains it. Without being explicitly told, all people have are their thoughts and wonderings about the true meaning. Philosophers ponder deep subjects like the meaning of life and what is love? (baby don't hurt me) Philosophers are always asking questions which obviously makes you think, but the questions they ask are things that are widely accepted to be unanswerable. For example, there's no way a person could actually know for certain if there truly is another life after death, but that doesn't stop philosophers from asking themselves and others if there is. In a way, there whole job is marking themselves and others wonder about some of the most important things of life. Scientists cause wonder in many ways. For example, when scientists discover new things, people wonder how that thing has never been discovered and how the scientists discovered it. Scientists go through numerous tests, reviews, and revisions in order to try to prove that things they themselves are wondering about are true facts. In science, nothing would happen without wonder and curiosity. How would you know what to test and research if you weren't curious about something? Scientists are really really important and actually know what they're doing unlike some people (cough trump and pence and all the other conservative assmasters) and also global warming is real so take that.
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