Wednesday, February 12, 2014

WRPLOT Lab


These graphs show the wind from three different months, April, September, and December. All the data was taken Atlanta, GA near the airport. During each month, the wind came from different locations. Pictures of the data are below: 



April










September










December


Sunday, February 9, 2014

Solar Trajectory Lab

For this lab, a water battle's shadow was measured and recorded at different times on February 9, 2014. The results are below:


Time         height of bottle      shadow length                 angle                   direction 
9:50 am           9 in                    16 in             9/16=30 degrees           118 SE

12:05 pm        9 in                     9.1 in           9/9.1=43 degrees          168 S

2:00 pm           9 in                   9.5 in            9/9.5=44 degrees          198 S

3:50 pm         9 in                    20 in             9/20=24 degrees            227 SW

4:45 pm         9 in                    16 in             9/16=16 degrees            261 W