Extra Credit Opportunities

Physical Science

 

    1.    Simple Machine Internet Lesson    10 points

    2.    WTC:  Anatomy of a Collapse    10 points

    3.    Guitar MPEGS    10 points

    4.    Magnetism Internet Lesson    10 points

    5.    A short paper on a topic of your choice, related to one of our units  10 points

Use the internet to answer one of these questions. 

Write up the answer in a 100 word, 2 paragraph report.  (10 points) 

You may do one of these per trimester.

1.    Why is the sky blue?

2.    Why is outer space black?

3.    How is a sonic boom generated?

4.    What caused the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to fall?

5.    What is absolute zero?

6.    How did Laurie Anderson's violin work?  Look up Mellotron in Yahoo for a clue.  The violin video is on the Guitar MPEG CDR.

7.    What is escape velocity?

 

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