Hooray For Long Weekends!

As you all know, Monday is Family Day, meaning no school! I'm sure you're all as glad as I am about this, as it's just one more day I can sleep in.

To kick off the weekend, I went to see a movie on Friday night with some friends. The twelfth of February was the day Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief came out, so of course, that's what we went to see. The movie, based off the popular series by Rick Riordan, was amazing! I'm still getting over it. So, if you haven't read the books, go read them now. If you haven't seen the movie, go by a ticket and see it.
Today (Saturday) was spent at home cleaning up my monkeys' - I mean brothers' mess. Lugging a vacuum up three flights of stairs is not fun. Not fun at all. That was just the morning though. It was the afternoon that was the hi-light of my day. I spent the entire time loafing around, because that's what weekends are for, right? Right!

I hope you all have a great long weekend!

How to: measure volume, density, and mass.

How do you measure the volume of an object if it is too large for you to take a ruler and use a formula? Firstly take the object that you are going to find the volume of put this object in a liquid, the amount that the water or liquids grows by is the volume of your object.

Density:

You can calculate density by dividing the volume by mass.

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Mass:

Refer to my last post.

Finish your homework, which is due on monday.

MASS? WEIGHT?

First when you hear the word MASS you probably think of the word massive and come up with one conclusion, whatever your talking about must be HUGE, right? WRONG. Mass is not a size it is a nickname for matter. Matter is not weight it is what you are, two objects with the same mass can be totally different objects. Mass is calculated on a balance, this is an object that is used to put your mass on one side and a weight on the other side giving you a level bar. Having trouble understanding? Imagine a teetor totter and on one side is a tree, to even it out you must put weights on the other side of the balance to figure out the mass of the object.

Weight is NOT MASS. Weight is pretty much weighed on a scale it is the measure of how many pounds your body is. If you went to the moon your weight would decrease but your mass would not mass never changes.

Any questions? Refer to Mr. Foster, friends, or notes.

Fluids: Weight, Mass, and Volume.

Hello Everyone,

today in class we had a lesson on fluids, and I didn't blog last week because we tested our hover crafts, so I felt it wasn't crucial so I thought I was would do this class instead, but I will still nevertheless do Wednesday's class.

What is mass? Mass is matter, and matter is NOT WEIGHT. If your mass is 80 kgs and you decide to fly to the moon you are still going to be 80 kgs but your weight WILL change.

Mass can never change, 1kg of a substance has the same mass as another 1kg of another substance, even though they may be different, materials, shapes, weight.

There are different ways to hold matter.

Volume= Measurement of Space.

Volume measures how much space an object occupies.

The formula to figure out volume is :

Base X Width X Height

The basic form of measurement for gas is cm3.

Whereas liquids use litres or milliletres.

IF YOU ARE USING VOLUME LIQUIDS you can use cm3.

For more information, refer to Mr. Foster, he did hint a potential quiz, so get ready!