Class on Thursday, October 2

Today in class we started off by going over D2L again to clear up any confusion anybody had. It was nice to be able to ask questions and hear what we were supposed to be doing. After awhile of discussing different issues, we went over Chapter 3, such as Newton's laws. We took notes over Newton's second law, which is: F=ma. We also talked about the inverse square law, which is: 1/r squared. After these notes were taken, we talked about the coming chapters that we will be discussing in our second reading guide. After that, we talked about how things fall and what happens. To demonstrate what we learned today, each table got the chance to make their own paper airplanes and come up with a design that had the greatest "hang time." Two of the planes in my group were folded the same, and the other two were folded in two other ways. Even the planes that were folded the same did not fly the same. The instructor informed us that this happened because you not only have to worry about how you fold it, it matters how you throw the airplane as well. This would be a good lab to use in the classroom since kids would have fun flying paper airplanes.