Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Forms of Energy

 What forms of energy can you identify in lighting?  Why would harvesting the energy in lighting for use by people be very difficult to do? 






Thursday, November 4, 2021

Blasting Asteroids

 Imagine you are in the future and an asteroid is on a trajectory to hit Earth. You and your team get on a spaceship and blast off to save the Earth. The spaceship is equipped with a laser that can disintegrate half the asteroid. The asteroid has a mass of two million kg and a speed of fifteen thousand meters per second. What is the force of the asteroid before and after the laser blast? Why is the force less after the laser blast? 





 

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Asteroid Distaters

 The asteroid is heading toward the Earth and International space station. Yesterday we asked questions about the asteroid. Today try to come up with some solutions the problem. 

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Asteroid Disaster

 Imagine an asteroid is heading toward the Earth. 

The asteroid is on a trajectory to hit the international space station.   You are on a team of people who are working on this problem. What are some of the questions you would need to ask to solve this problem? 





Monday, November 1, 2021

Consider the following

 If you could break one of Newton's Laws of motion which law would you break? What would you be able to do? Would this mean you have a super power?