Physics Lab B/C

[Littleboy]

State is in 6 days NOT a week.
What do you guys think the top voltages will be

[Epicfail]

i dont know and who cares? six days a week, same thing...

[illusionist]

It's pretty hard to say, because the type of motor and voltmeter that you test with can be different than the ones at state. At regionals, we got 150% times as much volts that we got at home. So, your voltage at states could be lower or higher than what you get with your testing.

[Epicfail]

...but at least you can figure out which fan is best

[Littleboy]

What are you getting on your fans

[illusionist]

that's true, you can compare against your own fans, but not other peoples voltages until the day of the competition

[Littleboy]

I was only wondering
yes I knew i could not compare

[illusionist]

sorry, probably sounded a bit like a know-it-all...

[Littleboy]

States tommorow!
does anyone know any good links of site that have good info for me to put in my binder.

[ichaelm]

The day before PA states, our #1 blade assembly for both low and high speed broke in its container. We had to hastily fix it before getting on the bus, and I was worried that it wasn't strong or aerodynamic enough. But it worked, and we ended up getting first!! The test wasn't that hard, it was on stuff like types of energy, newton's laws, and calculating energy. There was an open-ended tiebreaker about how windmills work; we just filled up the entire page with as much as possible about aerodynamics and generators