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Kim Humbard Period 7

Today, Mr. Manning gave us a free period to be spent working on our roller coaster projects. Students were to have spent the period working one the part of the project which is due Friday, April 17th. The requirements are as follows: -A neat sketch of the ride with points that need to have calculations clearly labeled. -An approximately one page sheet with a typed description of the ride, which also describes the theme of the ride. -Clear ideas for areas which consider energy, projectile motion,and circular motion. -Numbers about the ride which will eventually be used to make calculations Today, I worked on the sketch of my ride and tried to come up with realistic numbers and distances for my ride. It was not an easy task to accomplish, but it got done. As I tried to draw a rough sketch of what the ride will look like, my partner decided to come up with a theme for our ride and well as possible ideas for raft size and the number of people per ride. Overall, it was a fairly productive period which I felt had a lot accomplished and begun Students are reminded to have their projects in by April 17. Also, Mr. Manning made a note that the soon