Flame Test Lab

On block day, Wednesday, we did a lab with our groups. The lab was a flame lab. We had to light up a Bunsen burner. Then we were given a container with the a specific label and in the container there was liquid such as Potassium. We had to take a metal loop and dip it in the liquid and put the loop in the flame. When putting the liquid in the flame the flame turned a different color such as hot pink (my favorite), bright orange, green, and yellow. After recording the colors of the flame of each substance we were given cotainers without labels on them. And in the container there were liquids we did not know. We had to take the loop again and dip into the unknown liquid and put the loop into the flame. We had to then guess what liquid belonged to what flame. Some of the liquids were easy to identify, but some werent so i put two guesses on my paper.

basketball :)

Basketball is my all time favorite sport and last week we started conditioning. When we start conditioning it gets me excited because i know that the season is going to start soon. Conditioning is pretty hard because i am out of shape. Most of the time we run. We run liners and we sprint. We aslo do footwork drills and defensive slides. Yesterday we played four on four and i worked on my three pointers. I can not will till season starts because i want to see how it is playing with a different team.

Chemistry Lab: Radioactive Half-life Simulation

On Thursday we did a lab called Radioactive half-life simulation. In this lab we were given a hundred pennies and we had to put them into a cup and pour them out. the ones that flipped to the head side are decayed and the ones that are flipped to the tail side are still radioactive. We put all the head pennies, the decayed ones, to the side and took the tail pennies and put them into the cup again. We shook the cup and poured all the pennies out. We did this six times for three trials and while we were doing this we recorded the data on our paper. Today, Friday, we enetered the data in our google doc acount and we printed the table out. We also watched a video E=mc^2. And i learned that this equation means energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.