More Magnets!!!

But before I talk about it, great job, musical people! Despite some audio problems, that was amazing! I really liked the balance of comedy and drama, and Dr. Webb's cameo appearance (falsetto voice and all). Anyway...

Using the magnets from last week, I put them in a line and stuck them onto the metallic part of the cabinet in my bathroom, then I took one of the stray magnets and tried to put it on. To my dismay, the entire line of magnets moved towards the wall rather than the magnet in my fingers attracting to them. The poles were opposite, and since the force of my hand was greater than the magnetic force of the magnets on the cabinet, they gave way.

I also tried to attach metallic things together (ignore the shower curtain the the background. Don't ask). Even though the magnet wasn't touching the second bobby pin, the magnet made the first pin gain an electric field of its own, albeit much weaker than the magnet's one. That's why when I tried to attach a third pin to the second, the field was too weak to support the weight of the third. It could also be because the magnetic conductivity of the pins were low.

This week is gonna be fun. In both the sarcastic and positive sense of the word. It's extended schedule, guys. And I think we juniors have meetings both days. Greaaaaaat.

Yay for registration/CPR/class meetings/tests all week/holy crap there's only three weeks left in the quarter!

Super magnet...cutting off circulation...

So in my bathroom for some reason, there is a bunch of super magnets stuck to a shelf. My 2nd oldest brother used them for a Physics experiment a couple of years back when he was in high school a couple years back. He had a lot, so there are a lot of his excess in the bathroom. When I say super, I mean SUPER. It was nearly impossible to separate a pair of them, and if a piece of your skin is in between them right before they attach to each other, prepare for pain. I was very tempted to try to stick them on my mouth when I had braces, and even now with my teeth implants, but the force of the magnet would have been too great, causing the braces to bend, and my implants to destroy my gums/jaw as they attract to the magnet.

(Pardon the upside-downness. Me being left handed did not help me when I was using the camera.)

Usually, whenever I have a couple magnets, I try to put one on one side of my hand and a second on the other side, hoping their magnetic properties would keep them there. Sadly, the majority of those magnets were really weak, so they just fell to the ground. Good thing I didn't have any electronics around when I played with them, or they'd die. The super magnets were different; their magnetic field was strong enough to overcome the displacement of my fleshy hand and stay there. It was so freaky; when I moved one magnet, the other would move like how, as a kid, I saw people moving paper clips across a piece of paper. Even when I had a weaker magnet paired with the colossal beast, the magnets had no trouble staying.

Yay for magnetism! I'm scared because my hand is still feeling the magnets squishing it together...At least they weren't strong enough to break through my hand...

Sorry, this'll be a lame blog.

The super bowl is taking up a lot of my time (the advertisements are super funny!). So I guess since I've been sitting in front of the tv for a while, might as well blog about it.

Sorry, this won't be as witty as I would like it to be, but the football is calling for me...

So I was watching the half time show starring The Who (which I didn't know they were the ones who sung the theme to all the CSI shows...Don't shoot me, fans!). Their awesome light show with the epileptic lights made me remember why tv ties into Physics more than one realizes.

It ties in to what we are currently learning (no pun intended) since we need electricity to run it. The electrons travel through the wire in a zig-zag, curvy motion until it gets to its destination, powering up the TV. Those electrons bounce off the screen at varying speeds in order to light up the screen at different frequencies, which create pictures. The tv is attached to a cable that gets certain images from its mother company which allows the electrons to correspond with the images that the cable is trying to convey (or something like that). It's probably a lot more complicated that that, using fiber optics which we won't get to for a while.

The score is so close right now, but I hope this last quarter will be good. I'm not saying who I'm rooting for, since it'll jynx them, but best of luck to both teams.

Yay for me forgetting my history notes at school when I have a test tomorrow!!! T_T