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Imani Davis, Alize Hill, Zach Memmott, Mohamed Mohamed, Antonio McIntyre, Sandra Esparza , Maddie Till Speeding Lab In this lab we participated in the Irondequoit Police Department Safety project; our goal was to gather data about the speeds of cars driving down Cooper road. The speed limit in front of the high school is 35 mph or 15.6m/s. We measured the speed of 10 vehicles driving North on Cooper road. The only materials that we had were stopwatches and a tape measure. We needed to problem solve in order to find the speeds of the car using two measurements. First we drew a rough draft of how the graph should look, then we created a data table with measurement…

The problem being solved in the lab was to see if people were speeding in their cars down Cooper road. The speed limit on this road was 35 mph (15.6 m/s). In order to find their speed we measured out 30 meters along the road on the sidewalk. We had people stand on the starting and ending point with stop watches to record the time it took the car to travel the given distance. When a car approached the starting point, one person would raise their hand to signal the person standing at the end of 30 meters to start the time. Once the car reached 30 meters, we stopped the time and recorded the time. There was a person standing in the middle of the 30 meters, describing each ca…

For this lab we had to record the speed of the cars in front of the high school in a thirty meter distance. The speed limit is 35 mph, or 15.6 m/s. To complete this lab we measured out 30 meters and had someone at the start and finish of it, and the first person would raise their hand when a car came and the person at the end would time it from that point until it reached them at the end of the 30 meters. Then we would record the time. We did this ten times. 1. V= d/t V=30m/2.36s V=12.7m/s 2. V=d/t V=30m/1.92s V=15.6m/s 3. V=d/t V= 30m/2.67s V= 11.23m/s 4. V=d/t V= 30m/1.84s V= 16.3m/s 5. V=d/t V=30m/2.06s V=14.6m/s 6. V=d/t V=30m/2.53s V= 11.9m/s 7. V=d/t V=30m/3…

The speed limit on Cooper Road in front of Irondequoit High School is 15.6 m/s. However, drivers do not always follow the precise speed limit. We collected specific data to discover the average speed of automobiles driving down Cooper Road. To do this, we measured 50 meters, and marked the 25 meter and 50 meter spots for two individuals to stand at with stopwatches. In addition, one individual stood at the beginning of the 50 meters and indicated when a car drove past them. This would signal to both individuals with stopwatches to start the timer. When the car drove past the individual 25 meters, they would stop the timer, while the individual at 50 meters would continue …

The purpose of the Speeding Lab was to measure the speed of 10 vehicles driving down Cooper Road. The speed limit on Cooper Road is 35 mph (15.6 m/s, or 56.3 km/hr). In this procedure, we set up the tape measure for 50 meters. We had one of our team members, Justin, stand at the 25 meter mark and record the time it took for a car to get from him from the starting point of 0 meters. Another one of our team members, Zach, stood at the 50 meter mark and copied down the time it took for each car to travel from the 25 meter mark to the 50 meter mark. In conclusion, we recorded the data for a total of 10 cars. For our results, we observed that only 2 of the 10 we marked were o…

Danny, Ben, Celeena, Alana, Mackenzie #1; The problem of our assignment was more of a question: how many people speed on cooper road? The way we went about this was measuring out 30 meter strips of road and timed cars as they passed us what we found was that most cars where around 2.90 seconds per 30 meters #2; First, you must decide how you are going to collect your data and what your graph is going to look like. Secondly, go outside and measure out 30 meters in two different spots. Then, one person with a stop watch at the beginning of the 30 meters and another person at the end of 30 meters to yell stop so the person with the watch stops the clock.…

Diane, Emily, Clare, Marisa, Michaela Speeding Lab Each group is given ten minutes to collect data on the speeds of ten vehicles. There should be a clear description of the vehicle on the data table. From the data, you can conclude whether or not drivers obey the speed limit on Cooper Road. 1- Plan the strategy that your group is planning to use in the procedure.2- Gather materials (2 timers, tape measure) 3- Go outside to the designated road. 4- Measure two 25 meter distances on the sidewalk which you’re going use in the data table and graph. 5- Have two timers lined at the starting and ending point of each 25 meter section. 6- The groups should designate a data …

Riley McGwin, Jack Bowes, Ian Eckert, Baillie Latour, Sabrina Jade Vinas As a part of the Irondequoit police department safety project our group was asked to gather data to determine whether or not speeding was an issue on cooper road in front of Irondequoit high school. The speed limit set by the town is 35 mph but we were skeptical about if people actually followed the law. Our project used a pool of 10 randomly selected vehicles and judged their speed based on the time it took them to travel 3 intervals of ten meters. We then took the measures and calculated the speed that they would in miles per hour. This is how we would figure out if the people were speeding down t…

I'd like to start off my participation on the forum by recommending a mod to expand horizons in the Kerbal Space Program Project: Kethane. Kethane adds a new resource for you to harvest, Kethane, that you can convert into fuel, oxidizer, mono-propellant, and xenon gas. In Kethane, you have to find Kethane deposits and harvest the Kethane within those deposits. Kethane is rare on Kerbin, but is common everywhere else. This Kethane can be included in milestones, such as: Sample - Return a filled tank of Kethane to KSC. Establish a mine - Mine Kethane on another celestial body. Kethane can also be brought to KSC to be sold in the project, allowing students to acquire m…

Team Name: Brazanah Inc. Members: Hannah, Brandon, Zach Safety Rep: Brandon Starting Funds: $30,000 Notes: You are a small start-up business focusing on the creative and artistic vision of space travel. Funded by international soccer star Hannah and bestselling author Zach, CEO Brandon has put together a team focused on not only achieving greatness, but bringing the public along for the ride through Zach’s engaging and dramatic narrative style as mission reports are expected to be compiled into a dramatic short story / serial narrative which will provide a significant boost to the start-up’s income and funding levels. Further, due to Zlotnick’s pre-existing…

Team Name: Harbres Research Members: Matt, Mark, Andres Safety Rep: Mark Starting Funds: $60,000 Notes: Harbres Research is a research firm trying to make the leap from theoretical and laboratory work to practical space exploration. Having lined up the backing of financier and ESPN World Series of Poker champion Mark, the team utilizes a community of leaders to determine their direction, represented by globe-trotting volleyball/tennis multi-athlete Matt and the lesser known but no less effective Dr. Andres, inventor of the left-handed Kerbalshifter and the nuclear engine. Due to their many commitments, team members must also maintain their regular theoretical …

Team Name: Kailzah LLP Members: Sarah, Elizabeth, Kaila Safety Rep: Elizabeth Starting Funds: $30,000 Notes: You are a small high-tech firm specializing in integration of varied technologies for military purposes. CEO Sarah started the firm as an offshoot of Cornell Research, taking the business private as she focused on high-efficiency rocket engines for national defense purposes. Shortly thereafter, military regulations required significant robustness improvements in all their products. Sarah then hired Elizabeth to apply her civil engineering skills to improving product robustness. Something was missing, however, and when the two realized they were making…

Team Name: Deveckler Enterprises Members: Charlie, Devon, Lucas Safety Rep: Charlie Starting Funds: $100,000 Notes: Financed by interworld recording superstar Lucas, Deveckler Enterprises is Luke’s attempt to “give back” to the planet that has given him so much, and if he just happens to make a financial killing in the process, who is he to blame? Immediately following the signing of Deveckler’s papers of incorporation, Luke hired his old high school classmate, Devon, to head the firm’s day-to-day operations. Devon’s penchant for getting the job done, regardless of details such as legality and financial legitimacy, made him a perfect candidate to leave Earth a…

So I botched an orbit around Kerbin, but ended up in a solar orbit. Believe it or not, my orbit has two collision points with the planet Duna. Hopefully I will be able to get some cool pictures of it once their paths cross at the right time. Maybe i'll even land on it since I equipped my satellite with parachutes!

See... docking isn't so hard. Alpha Station is complete. Note that the cargo bay, and buran arms are two mods. Everything else is stock. Now to the semi tutorial: To make docking easier for yourself, always double check where the centre of mass is on your docking craft/payload. place rcs thrusters in equal lengths from it (roughly) just remember that your centre of mass will shift as you use fuel. Try to place your rcs in symetrical sets of 4. if your payload requires more than one rcs block per side to maintain its balance be sure to add the same amount of rcs to the base... For example: See how both the upper and lower rcs are the same. I…

With the release of the 0.20 update I figured i'd get some use out of the few new parts we got. Using the Cupola module (a perfect fit for that TIE fighter look) and the new skipper engine, I've been running preliminary tests and all is going well so far. Apologies for not posting pictures yet, but I want to perfect and finalize the design first. Don't worry... It's very close to finished. I just want to show the kind of things that are possible if you put your mind to it. Pics to follow soon.

Now, this took some research, some planning, and a number of tries, but matching up orbits for docking IS possible… But certainly not easy. Took a bit of practice (and perhaps a minor bounce off the station…) But in the end, the Kerbals prevailed. Once docked, a fuel transfer was initiated to verify the process. After that, it was party time. The Kerbal who’d been manning the space station decided he needed to get out after going a bit stir crazy. Time to ride the rocket for a spell. This, of course, left the space station unmanned, so one of our newly arrived Kerbonauts transferred himself over to the space station to take the helm. So, it’s doabl…

Team Name: Wayne Enterprises Available Funds: $70,000 Vehicle Name: Straight Cash Money Vehicle Parts List and Cost: Cockpit - $1800 Tank - $1600 Asas - $1100 Controller - $450 x 3 Seperator - $600 Engine - $850 Parachute - $700 x 6 Wing - $500 x 3 Total - $11,200 Design Goals: Aerodynamics. Launch Goal: We are hoping to have a manned launch of at least 10 km. Pilot Plan: Fuel tank must seperate from the cockpit when the fuel runs out. Then the parachutes must be deployed directly afterwards. Illustrations: See attachment. Safety Rep: Liz Caceci.

Just playing around with the KSP and got an unmanned satelite in orbit around Kerbin! Where's my money?!?!?!

Just to show you it's possible, I thought I'd attach my "Mun Lander" mission. Having succeeded here, I've since gone back and thought a bit harder about efficiency, done a few calculations, etc., and certainly would not do this "the same way" again, but even with the BFFI (i.e. brute force) method of space travel, it's pretty straightforward to land on Mun or Minmus and come back safely again. Next up on my to-do list -- a space station/refueling port (with some docking practice) and sending a probe to orbit another planet! (Moral of the Story -- don't led the mean, nasty, scary, ugly physics teacher beat you guys! The gauntlet has been thrown.)

Name: Build Fly Dream Trailer Category: Kerbal Space Program Date Added: 06 May 2013 - 08:42 AM Submitter: FizziksGuy Short Description: Trailer for Kerbal Space Program View Video

Team Name: Dailoe Conglomerates Members: Joe, David, Phil Safety Rep: Joe Starting Funds: $70,000 Notes: You represent a large conglomerate of varied high tech industrial firms who have come together in an effort to sweep in and take over the Kerbal space industry. Software tycoon Joe and 3-D self defense video mogul Phil hired David fresh off a multi-year humanitarian effort to head the conglomerate as CEO, hoping his strong social and relationship skills would help temper the money-thirsty greed of the conglomerate’s financial backers in an effort to safely and efficiently monopolize the market. It is further hoped that Joe’s digital artistry skills will pro…

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