Sunday, December 2, 2012

Plankton Racing

My plank tone was two post it notes together. This allowed a large surface area to make my plankton to sink slowly. The only worry was that the paper was not to turn and had to be pushed in evenly. The plankton's sinking time was taken for a distance of 35.5 centimeters. My average time was 18.3 seconds, which revealed a speed of 1.94 centimeters per second. Other supplies were tested but I bent and tore so may supplies that they became useless and would not sink slowly so I just kept it simple to use paper. The most interesting thing about this project was how to make everything try and work by adding and reducing weight and trying to make spikes like real plankton use.