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AliciaDAnnunzio

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    1. Cooper road’s speed limit in front of IHS is 35 miles per hour (15.6 m/s) or 56.3 km/hr. Our team has been asked to gather data about speed as a part of Irondequoit police department safety project. We must collect data about the speed limit of car passing past the high school.
    2. In order to figure out how fast the cars were going we marked a 20 meter long length of the road using masking tape; with a half way mark in between. One person measured how many seconds it took to get to the first mark to the halfway mark (using a stopwatch,) while the other measured from the halfway mark to the end mark. Another person recorded the description of each car we were measuring. Two other people assisted the ones holding the stopwatches by recording the times.
    3. Out of all the vehicles we measured, the average speed was 16.05 m/s. This is over the 15.6 m/s speed limit by .45 m/s. If we were to repeat the experiment, we would have more than two people measuring times in order to get more accurate results.

    While the average speed is slightly over the limit, there doesn’t seem to be cause for immediate concern. While some vehicles, such as a very aerodynamic motorcycle was speeding at 21.4 m/s, this was not true for the majority. (Also noting that many knew we were measuring them.) But overall, the speed of cars on this road is at an acceptable rate.

  1. I love ultimate frisbee too! :) Being a dental hygienist sounds interesting, I'm sure physics will help you understand science better in preparation for that since it's technically "the study of everything."

  2. My name is Alicia, and I really love music. I like listening to it but my passion is playing it. I play guitar, bass guitar, and ukulele. I practice my instruments in most of my free time, but I don't think I'm going to pursue becoming a professional musician as a career. I also love nature. I have a big backyard so I like to sit in the grass and watch the clouds roll by whenever I'm feeling stressed or need some silence. I haven't decided exactly what I'm going to do when I'm older but I'm considering going into the social sciences.

    I'm taking physics mostly because it was one of the opportunities I was offered for my schedule, but I'm also taking it because I like trying new things. So many people have told me they hated physics, and many others have told me they love it. Whenever I'm getting this kind of mixed message, I decide not to knock it before I try it. It seems like a very interesting and fun class. This year I hope to learn at least a little bit about the nature of the universe. Whenever I hear people discuss physics they talk about black holes, and stars, and gravity, and the earth; and I just wonder what it's all about. Although I have a rudimentary understanding of these things already, I would definitely like to go more in depth.

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