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Today, Friday March 6th 2009, was the nomal, typical day in Physics class. We started the day off by taking a quiz. This wasnt a long quiz but it was still tedious. Everybody started to hand in their quizes and waited impatiently for the slackers to finish. Matty M. was the last one done, as usual, but then again im sure he'll still get a better grade than half the class. Once everyone handed thier papers in Mr. Manning called everyone back to their seats. It was time to continue working on the class lab. Mr. M got out his "fishing rod", as he calls it, and his stopwatch.



To start us off with spinning today was Donna. Everyone was so worried that she was gonna hit the fire sprinkler as she was getting within mere inches of soaking us. The the radius of the rubber stopper from the end of the rod was shortened by alot. Almost everyone had the opportunity to either spin it or work the stopwatch. After recording the data the radius was increased by about an inch or so. The spinner was to keep the force acting on the stopper at 2N, which isnt as easy as it sounds. After each data set was collected, the radius was decreased by a minimal amount. As all this data was collected the students copied it down on their own charts and had to fill in the calculations. The equation for the calculations that the students had to make was: 2(pie)r/T. The last trial for that section was completed just before the bell rang. Mr. Manning has a wonderful way of timing things correctly.