Week 8 was a very busy week for Group 2. We all got together at Myers Hall (a freshman dorm on Drexel's campus), and brought out all of our supplies out into the courtyard in the middle of the dorm for testing. The first thing we did was set up three different cameras. The first was a ----- camera sitting on a tripod recording the overall set up of our experiment. The other two cameras were iPhone cameras. One camera was placed directly in front of the wall where we had our marker board sitting and one recording was recording the side view of the wall and marker. We recorded three blocks being dropped. The first was a block of ice, the control. The other two blocks were our Pykrete samples, the first sample dropped was the Pykrete that was made with ice, sawdust and our substitute wood pulp (paper towels), and the second was the sample of just ice and sawdust. After we completed our testing we realized several things. The first is that the addition of the paper towel makes the Pykrete sample a lot stronger than the sample of of Pykrete with only sawdust. The second thing is that the sample of Pykrete with just sawdust should have been mixed more thoroughly while in the freezer because we we took the sample out of its tin container all of the sawdust had sunk to the bottom of the block.
Goals to work towards:
- Edit recordings.
- Complete calculations necessary to complete testing and project.
- Use comments on rough draft to complete and improve the final draft of the group's final presentation assignment.
- Continue to work on final presentation slide show.
- Practice final presentation several times and delegate different talking points to each group member.
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