Thursday, April 16, 2009

The light bulb lab

Just a quick little update on our latest project in class

Observations:
1. Switch closed
2. Only light bulb 1 unscrewed
3. Only light bulb 2 unscrewed

Circuit 1:
1. Both lights are on
2. Both lights are off
3. Both lights are off

Circuit 2:
1. Both lights are on
2. Only light bulb 2 is lit
3. Only light bulb 1 is lit

Last Day's Lab

My group's fire alarm system kind of worked but it did have some slight errors. One problem was that the metal "thing" would only raise so far up, so it might not always have touched our other connector. Our other problem was that the wires and crock clamps did not always conduct correctly. Here is a drawing of the contraption we made:



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