Welcome to your first assignment to our class blog.
For this assignment, you will post a one-page reflection on the episode of Mythbusters we watched in class (and on which you took notes).
Your reflection should address the following questions:
1) What questions did the Mythbusters investigate?
2) What kinds of experiments did they try out to investigate these questions?
3) How did the Mythbusters work together? How did they collaborate? How did they resolve conflicts? How did they divide up work? What else did you notice?
4) What did you learn from this episode about how scientists think and work?
This assignment is due Thursday by 11:59 pm.
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I loved the episode of Mythbusters that we saw on dropping pennies.
They asked lots of questions and worked really well together.
I can’t wait to see more.
Hi I guess it works...
Eureka! It works. Well peace out.
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Mythbusters-Penny Drop
By Ryley Clyde
Our science class recently watched an episode of Mythbusters. This episode was based on a theory that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building it would embed in the cement or kill someone. They proved it wrong. But they were still interested in finding out if the theory was true. How fast would the penny have to travel to kill someone or embed in the cement?
Some of the questions that the scientists asked along the way were, “How can we test the penny from falling off the empire state building, if the theory is true that it could kill someone?” The way to answer their question was to find out how high the Empire State Building was then jumping off an airplane and finally releasing pennies from their hands. Another question that they had to ask was, “How fast does the penny have to travel to embed in the concrete or kill someone?”
The scientists worked well together because they tested a lot of things out. If things didn’t work out the way they planned they would find another way to answer their own questions. One of many good things that help when your working with another person is that you both have two total different brains working together. Even though each scientist has their own way of working, they still progress. Most of the time their ideas meshed together to form one brilliant idea. Also another important thing they did well is they asked each other a lot of questions, and almost every time the other scientist would have the answer.
Here are some interesting ways that they tested their ideas…
• Dropping pennies from an airplane
• Testing a penny through a wind tunnel
• Making a penny shooter out of a staple gun
• Shooting a penny through a riffle
These scientists often have to deal with change. They have to walk away from an experiment and next time try it differently. One of the changes they had to make was changing where they were going to shoot the penny through the staple gun. The first time they did it they hit a light on the ceiling. So the next time he tested it, it was at the ground.
During the episode of Mythbusters I realized how hard a scientist’s job really is. They have to have a lot of experience, be open minded, listen and have many trials. These two scientists are opposites and that’s what makes them really great.
just testing to see if it works
it works!!!
it works i guess!!
Uhhh I think it works but i'm not sure so i'm gunna check to make sure just to clarify that it works.
hey it works
hey it works
Mythbusters
In our science class we watched a mythbusters episode, in this episode they were testing the myth that a penny dropped from the empire state building could either kill some one or get embedded in the cement. First they needed to know how fast a penny could fall at maximum velocity. They knew a human could fall at 120 mph, so they tested by jumping out of a plane and letting pennies fly out of their hands. Because the pennies went flying straight up they knew the pennies couldn’t fall at 120 mph. Then they could guess how fast they could fall but to be sure they tested the pennies in a wind tunnel to see with 65 mph winds at the bottom and 35 at the top. Since it stayed mostly at the bottom they found out it could fall at 63 mph.
One of them was extremely excited about it and one wasn’t so they got in a small argument. It was easy to get the cement and asphalt but then they had to make a fake human head using some sort of gel. The next step was to figure out how to shoot a penny 63 mph. So they sort of rigged a staple gun so it would shoot the penny at exactly the speed they wanted. After they figured all this out the argument was over and they complimented each
others work. They first tested it on the asphalt it didn’t make a dent. Then they shot it at the cement same result. They shoot it at the head they concluded that u would only get a headache. Then they took turns shooting each other in the hand it only stung. Then they had some fun and shot each other with the gun. That was busted so then they got a gun to shoot the penny from. The gun shot three times the speed of sound. They had to rig the rifle so the penny couldn’t hit them. They were nervous because they weren’t sure if it would blow up or shoot the penny. Then penny made a dent in the asphalt and the cement but wasn’t embedded. There were different results with the head, when it was hit it just cracked. So in the end the myth was busted. They did argue but in the end it didn’t matter at all. They also each had their own strength’s and weaknesses. Watching Mythbusters was a lot of fun and I hope we can do it again.
9/9/08
Mythbusters Reflection
By: magentarocks
1) What questions did the Mythbusters investigate?
The Mythbusters investigated questions like “how fast would the penny be going when it falls to seriously hurt somebody,” and “how fast would the penny have to be going to get stuck in the ground?”
2) What kinds of experiments did they try out to investigate these questions?
They tried jumping out of an air plane, going to the top of the Empire State building, putting a penny in a wind chamber and by putting a penny in a gun!
3) How did the Mythbusters work together? How did they collaborate? How did they resolve conflicts? How did they divide up work? What else did you notice?
The Mythbusters worked well together except for occasionally they disagreed. The way that they collaborated was that they always listened to each others ideas and opinions. I couldn’t really tell how they resolved their conflicts, but maybe they are just too good of friends to dwell on the bad, they just got over it.
They divided the work by each doing the same amount of things, or if one didn’t want to do something he had to do a little extra work. (But usually they did the work together.) I also noticed that one was always less daring than the other. He didn’t want to jump off the air plane and he didn’t want to get the penny shot at him. (Which I don’t understand because it’s his job and that type of stuff comes with the territory!)
Mythbusters
Mythbusters ask many questions in these episodes. Some of the questions they ask are: Will the penny go into the concrete/kill someone if it hits them in the head? What is the maximum speed a penny will go? How fast does the penny have to go to dent the concrete/kill someone?
The mythbusters have to find a way to test their ideas. Some of their ideas were: One person jumped out of the plane and let go of a hand full of pennies. They put a penny in a nail gun and shot it at a piece of concrete. Then they used a rifle instead.
The mythbusters have to work together. They worked together by: One person would always help out the other. Sometimes they did not agree but if they got over it.
The Mythbusters had to deal with change. Some ways they did that was: They would try a new way to test out their ideas.
On Monday, our science class watched an episode of the Mythbusters in class. They were trying to figure out that if they drop a penny from the top of the Empire State Building, what would happen to the penny. Will it fall and impale someone in the head and kill them, or will it just fall and impale the road. So first they had to figure out how fast a penny could fall, so they went skydiving, and one of them dropped a handful of pennies, and they flew straight up. They knew a human body fell at approximately 120 mph, so they came up with this theory that pennies fall between 35-65 mph. Then they asked, id that enough to piece someone’s head? So one of them made a staple gun that could shoot pennies at 65 mph. Obviously after some tests, they figured out it wouldn’t work because it could barely make a mark on a hand at point blank range. But it could print the design on the back of the penny into cement. Except when it hit asphalt (which is what roads are made of), it didn’t do anything, So then they attached a penny adapter to the end of a rifle, and shot it, and it make a small indentation. So the figured out that at 65 mph, a penny wouldn’t do much.
The two Mythbusters were an interesting couple. They sometimes agreed and sometimes didn’t. When they disagreed, they would sometimes make fun of each other, and sometimes they would act like they were interested and cheer them on. When they had a conflict about what experiments to do, they each did their own and they each got different useful information. They each did about the same amount of work except the guy who went skydiving, he did a little more work between the skydiving and the gun experiment. I also noticed, even though they fight, make fun of each other, and like seeing the other one in pain, they are a nice, productive group.
In class we watched Mythbusters. The myth was: a penny dropped from the Empire State Building could kill someone or could imbed itself in the concrete. To begin Jamie and Adam had to find out a penny’s terminal velocity. To test this Adam jumped out of a plane and released pennies into the air. Since the pennies flew straight up, they knew a penny’s terminal velocity was not as high as a human’s. After that they asked themselves “what is the a velocity of a penny?” To solve this, Jamie constructed a wind tunnel. They figured out the terminal velocity of a penny was 63 MPH. Adam was really happy but Jamie wasn’t excited. They had a small argument but then forgot about it.
The next question they asked was “Will the penny travel fast enough to either get embedded in concrete or kill a human?” To figure this out they built a model head using ballistic gel, and got concrete and asphalt. Their next question was “how do you shoot a penny at 63 MPH?” Together they messed with a staple gun and made it so it could shoot a penny. When they shot the penny at concrete, nothing happened. When they shot it at asphalt, nothing happened, not even a dent. When they shot the penny at the gel, it didn’t do anything. They said the penny might hurt your head a bit though. After that they shot each other in the hand. It didn’t leave any damage but they said it stung. They knew the myth was busted but they were still interested. They wanted to find out how fast a penny would have to go to kill a human or get embedded in concrete.
They got a real gun and made it so it could shoot pennies. The gun shot 3 times the speed of sound. Adam and Janie were afraid that the gun would just explode so they took caution. The penny shot at the ground and it made a dent but did not stay in the ground. When they shot the penny at the model head it got cracked and some of it fell off.
Adam and Jamie worked well together for almost the whole time. It seemed as if Jamie was more of the brains and Adam was the Daredevil. It was as if Jamie didn’t want to have as much fun as Adam. It is good because they both know how to use their skills. They had to make a lot of compromises and sacrifices. I now know how hard and stressful it must be to be a scientist. You have to be able to take something that didn’t work and change it to make it work. I really enjoyed this episode of Mythbusters. I hope we can watch it again.
Mthybusters Blog
Jamie and Adam asked a lot of questions. They asked can you drop a penny off a skyscraper can it imbed itself into the sidewalk or kill someone. How fast can a penny go? How fast dose the penny have to go to pierce skin. They went skydiving and dropped pennies to see how fast it will go. They then put it in a wind tunnel to confirm it. They modified a staple gun and a rifle to shoot pennies.
They worked well together but Adam took all the fun dangerous stuff such as skydiving. They never really agreed with each other Jamie was to serious. Adam was more free wiled than grumpy Jamie. I learned that scientist don’t always agree. Adam and Jamie agreed half the time
Penny drop
In our science class we watched Mythbusters. The myth was if you dropped a penny of the empire state building it could kill somebody or embed itself in the concrete. One problem is that if the myth was true and they through it of it would kill someone. So Adam jumped out of a plane and falling 120 mph and let the pennies go. Once he let go of the pennies, the pennies shot right into the sky. So now they knew that pennies couldn’t fall 120 mph. They tested a lot of things to see how fast a penny can go. Then found out it is 65 mph.
Then Adam made a plaster dummy head and Jamie was making a staple gun that could fit a penny. Once they finally finish they put it to the test. First they fired it at some asphalt it did not embed self in the asphalt. After that they used concrete. It did not embed itself in the concrete. Next they used the plaster head they fired the penny and nothing happened so it has not able to break through the skin. Then they tried it on Adam’s hand nothing happened it just stung. So Adam put the penny in a gun. So they fired the gun at the speed of sound all it did was dent the concrete and bend the penny. Watching Mythbusters was fun.
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Mythbusters
In our science class we watched a episode of Mythbusters. The episode was about the myth “If a penny was dropped of the Empire State Building could it kill someone or embed itself inside the concrete?”. They answered the following questions:
• How fast is a penny’s terminal velocity?
• What damage would the penny do on impact?
• What would a penny do when it hit skin?
• What would a penny do when it hit concrete?
• How fast would a penny have to go to break a skull or embed in concrete?
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They tested their ideas though many different tests. They found out the terminal velocity of a penny by releasing handfuls of pennies while skydiving. They also did a long set of equations to find out the terminal velocity of a penny. They also made a miniature wind tunnel to find out the terminal velocity of a penny. Jaime clipped a penny so it would fit in a staple gun. He ten tested how fast it went. He then widened the staple gun to fit a whole penny. It didn’t work the penny just made a dent in the skull or the concrete. They took a rifle and attached a metal barrel that fit a penny. Then the loaded a blank round into the rifle. When the gun fired the gases would cause the penny to shoot like a bullet. They penny didn’t shoot like a bullet it just made a bigger dent.
Jaime and Adam worked on their separate ideas until the main experiment came they combined their ideas together to make one big experiment. Jaime thought of using the staple gun and Adam thought of the wind tunnel and the rifle that shoots pennies. Jaime likes to see Adam in pain and fail at something. Adam acts sort of childish about Jaime. Jaime is bald so he wears a hat. I learned that scientists use all there instincts and will try almost anything.
Adam & Jamie investigated what would happen if you were to drop a penny off the empire state building, hitting someone on the top of the head. The myth was that it would kill someone.
From the upper part of the empire state building, Adam and Jamie began their experiment. This one was to drop a penny off. But this didn’t last very long. First, they needed to make sure it would work. They were told that at the height they were, winds impacting the building would have to shift in different directions. Ultimately, they found out that the penny would be blown back- and possibly up a little. So their empire state building experiment had to be put off. They decided that one of them had to go skydiving. They knew a human body’s terminal velocity- meaning how fast a human could go without any from of propulsion in a freefall. It was 120 mph. Adam went skydiving, and brought some pennies with him. In the freefall, he let them go. He commented that they just flew right out of his hand, and went “up” while he kept going down. Through a series of calculations, they found out that a penny’s terminal velocity was 64.4 mph. They modified a gun to shoot a penny that fast, so they could move on to shooting the head that they had made out of ballistics gel and an old skull.
The Mythbusters worked closely to find the answers to their ever changing questions. They did whatever they could to accomplish their goal and used a lot of teamwork. They didn’t really fight each other, but they didn’t always agree. And when they didn’t agree, they always came to a common solution that they both liked. They divided work well, and both did what they were better at in the problem.
I learned a lot about how scientists think and work. They don’t stop until they find what they were looking for, keep asking questions, and pack a lot of hard work into it. They keep going to different sub-topics, exploring new options, and most importantly, they never gave up on anything they were doing.
Mythbusters-Penny Drop
In class we watched a Mythbusters episode about dropping a penny off the Empire State Building. As we watched, we were asked to take notes on four questions. What questions did the Mythbusters ask? How did they test their ideas? How did they deal with change? How did they work together? In my notes I accumulated answers to the questions.
The questions they asked were: Will the penny embed in the ground? Will the penny kill somebody? How fast would it go? What can we use to make it go about 65 mph? How fast does a penny have to go to kill somebody? These are the questions asked by the Mythbusters.
They tested their ideas using various methods and materials. Adam, one of the Mythbusters, went skydiving and dropped lots of pennies to see how fast they would go. They determined that the fastest the penny would go was about 65 mph. To make the penny go about 65 mph, they shot it out of a staple gun. In order to see what the penny would penetrate the shot it at, concrete, asphalt, and a human flesh substitution made by Adam, by molding the stuff he made between a skull and a plastic mold. The penny did not penetrate the materials so they shot it at their hands and Adam’s butt. Those are the ways they tested their ideas.
When something didn’t work the Mythbusters had to change their method. For example, when the staple gun didn’t shoot the penny fast enough, they changed and used a rifle. Also, when they shot the penny upwards, it broke the light bulb, so they made a change and shot down. Another change they made was when about 65 mph wasn’t fast enough to penetrate test materials calculated that they would have to make the penny go three times the speed of light. When their first attempt didn’t work they would change and try again.
The Mythbusters are a team, which means they should collaborate and work well together, which they do. They also, cooperate with each other, and respect one another. Their relationship is like a best friends relationship, thus making them want to work together and have fun while they work. This doesn’t mean they never disagree, although they do not get seriously mad at each other when they do disagree. They work together as a team by, constructing ideas together, and testing ideas together.
In conclusion, the myth that the penny will either penetrate the concrete or kill someone if you drop it off the Empire State Building was busted. Although, if the penny went three times the speed of light it could break through skin it could not, even at that speed, penetrate concrete, asphalt, or, a human skull. It could not penetrate those materials because of its shape and weight, although if it were the shape of a bullet, it could to penetrate those materials.
Mythbusters
By Ajax555
A couple of days ago in science class, we watched an episode of Mythbusters. The episode was based on an old myth that if you dropped a penny off of the very top of the Empire State Building it would either kill somebody, or embed into the concrete. They proved the myth to be wrong but they still wanted to find out how fast the penny would have to travel to kill somebody or embed into the ground.
A couple of the questions that they asked were: how can we test the penny from falling off of the Empire State Building if the myth about killing someone might be true? They tested this by jumping out of a plane and letting the pennies go from their hands. Another question was: how fast would the penny have to go to kill someone or embed into the concrete? They tested this in many ways.
A couple of the unique ways that they tested the pennies were:
1. They jumped off of a plane and let the pennies go as they were in the air. This helped because they did it over an open field where they could measure the height and speed and nobody would have the chance of being killed.
2. They modified a staple gun so that it could shoot the penny faster than it could shoot a staple. This helped because this showed them that they needed to make something that would shoot the penny with more power because it wasn’t fast enough (it was only 64 MPH). Also, when they shot it, it barely made a mark in the concrete or asphalt. It didn’t make a mark on the skull and it only stung their hands and butt.
3. They put the penny up a wind tunnel. This helped because they could see how fast and in what direction the penny would travel with wind.
4. They modified a rifle to shoot the penny out of. The rifle worked a lot better than the staple gun because it had more power and it went almost three times the speed of the staple gun. The rifle made an indentation in the concrete and made the skull crack a little bit.
The two scientists had to deal with quite a few changes. If the experiment didn’t work, often they would leave and do something else and come back with a new and improved way to do the experiment. For example, when the staple gun didn’t work, they thought and decided that a rifle would probably work better. Another example was when the staple gun shot straight up and hit the light bulb. They decided that they needed to switch the direction in which they shot the staple gun.
Jamie and Adam didn’t always work very well together. Sometimes, Jamie didn’t really take in mind Adam’s thoughts and visa versa. Also, when one of them had accomplished something that they thought was significant the other person didn’t really act like he had accomplished something. Not always agreeing didn’t matter in the end though because together, they had busted the myth.
I learned that all scientists have their own opinions and their own ways to think and learn. Even though this is true, almost every scientist is successful in the end with what they are doing or have been trying to do in their life.
Recently in our science class we watched an episode of MythBusters.
This episode was about the theory that if you drop a penny off the top on the Empire State Building it would kill someone or be imbedded into the ground.
They asked quite a few questions like...If you dropped a penny would it embed itself into the cement or kill someone? And also, What’s the fastest the penny goes? And last how fast would it have to go to do those things?
They tested how fast the penny would have to go bye someone would jump out of a plane and drop pennies but they ended up just kind of floating because of the wind. Then to see how fast it would have to go again and what damage it would do they put a penny in a staple gun and shot it at a fake dummies head.
A lot of their tests didn’t work but they didn’t give up they tried new things to make it faster. Every time something wouldn’t go right they would go back to the “drawing board” and they always found something else to replace their idea.
They worked together good at the most. People don’t always agree on things they had different ideas but they still listened to each other and tested their ideas. Even though they seemed like complete opposites, it worked out in the end!
MythBusters was a fun and entertaining way to learn, I might even start to watch that now.
MythBusters- Dropping Pennies
By Hobbes
In the MythBusters episode we watched, Jamie and Adam addressed a few questions. One of the questions they asked was the myth: If you throw a penny off of the empire state building will you see an impact in the sidewalk or road? If it hits someone on the head can it do serious damage? They were worried about it doing damage to a person’s skull and also the fact that it is really windy at the top of the building so the penny was probably just going to get blown back at them. They decided to try to bust the myth in the lab instead which brought them to their next question: What is the maximum speed a penny can fall? Which they solved by answering a different question: Is a penny’s velocity the same as a human’s? They tested this by having Adam jump out of a plane carrying handfuls of pennies and letting them go. They almost fell up out of Adam’s hand proving that they do not have the same velocity. But they do figure out that a penny’s fastest falling speed is 64.4 mph. The last question they asked was: How fast does a penny have to go to do serious damage? They tested this by shooting it out of a gun and then shooting a bullet out of a gun. The bullet did damage whereas the penny did not. So the answer to that question is faster than a bullet.
When things changed they did a lot to fix the problems or change the question to one they could use to solve the original question. When they got to the top of the building and decided that it wasn’t safe for the innocent pedestrians below on the sidewalk and that the wind might be a problem they decided to do lab tests instead of actually throwing a penny off of the building and endangering lives. The lab tests worked fine too so it didn’t really matter.
They worked very well together except for the times when they didn’t agree on everything. When they didn’t totally agree with everything they said they went off by themselves and still got things done. Like at one point, Jamie was working by himself but he managed to make the gun that shot the penny at 64.4 miles per hour. In the end when they shot the penny from the regular gun it was Adam who actually created the gun but Jamie didn’t trust it. When Adam shot the gun the gun, however, it worked perfectly. This is proof that people with different opinions can work together.
Penny Drop Myth
In class we watched an episode of Mythbusters. The myth was, can a penny kill you when dropped from the top of the Empire State building. It turns out a penny can’t kill you at all when dropped. Here’s how they did it, using science.
First they had to ask the question, can a penny kill you if you drop it of the Empire State building. From that they ran it to the problems, if it could kill someone how would they test it safely. Number two the wind would end up pushing the penny up the building instead of the penny going down. Also they needed to find out the rate that a penny falls at. So the myth busters took to the sky. The way they tested the myth was by having Adam jump out of a plane and go sky diving. On the way down he would release the pennies. Of course that didn’t work so they had to make a wind tunnel for a penny in the lab. Once they found out the speed a penny would fall at it was time to get a penny to fly safely. So while Jamie built a penny firing nail gun Adam made the molds for the test.
While Jamie was building the penny firing gun him and Adam didn’t always agree. Jamie ran in to couple problems while building the gun. The penny was to wide to fit in the hole. So Jamie cut the edges. It ended up working. Then it was down to the test. First the fired it a concrete nothing. Then they fired it at asphalt again nothing. When they fired at the human head alls it did was make a small incision. So of course they had fun. Jamie held the gun and Adam was shot with it at his hand, the Jamie would do the same.
Of course know that the Myth was busted they wanted to take it to a bigger scale. So they made a penny firing rifle. Since the penny was not the right shape for the hole they put a special box at the end of the rifle. All of the test did nothing. The only thing that did happen is a small hole in the concrete. So of course with the left over head they shot the actual rifle bullet threw the human head. I really enjoyed this activity I would love to do it again.
Mythbusters-Penny Drop
BY GMOSER
during 4th period Mr. Ardito's class we watched Mythbuster's. The episode was on the myth that if you threw a penny off the empire state building it would kill someone or get embedded in the sidewalk or road.
So they put it to the test. They wanted to know how fast a penny goes so, they jumped off a plane to see if pennys fall at the same speed as humans, and penny's dont fall as fast as humans. Penny's fall at 64.4 mph and humans fall at 120 mph.
The scientist's worked well together at most time's but some times they didn't work together. Because if it didn't work then the would go the extra mile to make it work. A penny at 64.4 mph cannot get embedded in the sidewalk or road and will not kill you. Eventually they shot it out of a gun and still no damage.So they used a bullet and that did the damage, to kill and get embedded in the road and sidewalk.
They also figured out that even if you threw a penny off the Empire State building it would never hit the ground because the building is so high it makes it's own wind in a way.
They tested their ideas by
-a wind tunnel
-a staple gun
-a rifle
-jumping out of a plane.
Being a scientist like them would be very hard because they always go the extra mile and make it work and because they have to look great for the camera.
MYTHBUSTERS
WHAT QUESTIONS DID THE MYTHBUSTERS INVESTIGATE?
One of the first questions that the mythbuster tried investigating was "if you drop a penny off the empire state building would it kill someone or leave a mark on the cement?" that was Adam and Jamie's first question.
WHAT KINDS OF EXPERIMENTS DID THEY TRY OUT TO INVESTIGATE THESE QUESTIONS?
4 experiments they tried out were
1.jumping out of an airplane then letting them loose in the sky.
2.shooting it out of a staple gun.
3.putting it through a wind tunnel.
4.shooting it through a rifle.
HOW DID THE MYTHBUSTERS WORK TOGETHER?HOW DID THEY COLLABORATE?HOW DID THEY RESOLVE CONFLICTS?HOW DID THEY DIVIDE UP THE WORK?
What i saw in the episode of mythbusters was that Adam and Jamie actually did work well together taking the time to listen to one an others idea's about what materials to use what would be better and they also gave feedback to each other saying what would be better out to use still staying with that suggestion. they divided up the work by trying out different things out at different times like when Jamie was practicing the nail gun Adam was building things to test on like the head that they practiced shooting on.
I also noticed that they tried out every idea before turning it down and that they had a lot of fun testing and investigating everything they did.
I LEARNED THAT BEING A MYTHBUSTER MUST BE ALOT A WORK I MEAN NOT JUST BEING APART OF MYTHBUSTERS BUT ANY SCIENTIST THERE JOB IS NOT EASY BUT LOOKS ENJOYABLE.
Mythbusters Reflection
In science class we watched an episode of Mythbusters to learn how scientists really think and work. This helped me a lot to realize how scientists think and work.
Some of the questions they asked in the beginning are: If you dropped a penny of the Empire State Building could it embed itself into the concrete or kill or injure someone if it hit them? How are we going to test this because if it’s true we could hurt someone?
The first thing they did to investigate these questions was see how fast a penny could go unassisted. The first thing they did was they made Adam jump out of an airplane and let go of some pennies and he knew the speed of a person falling out of an airplane so he let go of the pennies and they fell much slower than he did so he estimated they fell about 65 mph. After he made that estimation they did many complicated mathematical experiments and found out that the fastest a penny can shoot is 64.43 mph. Then to test the myth Jamie modified a staple gun so it would shoot pennies and they first shot it down at a block of concrete to see if it would make a print and it didn’t, then they fired it at a model of a human skull and it didn’t. They came to the conclusion that it definitely couldn’t hurt someone.
They then decided to add more onto this experiment. They asked the question “How fast would it have to be to do some serious damage?” To test this question Adam modified a rifle so it could shoot pennies and they shot it at a fake model of a head and the head just cracked open and all the contents spilled onto the floor.
The Mythbusters worked very hard and very well together. Some of the ways that they worked together are they never did something without the other person knowing and being okay with it, once they realized what needed to be done they split up and went and did it, if they were having conflicts instead of getting mad at each other they talked about what they were disagreeing about and made a resolution.
Some of the things I learned about how scientists think and work are I learned that if you work with another scientist you have to be patient and let them put in their ideas too. I also learned that if you have an idea of what might be the answer to your problem you should go ahead and test it, it might be wrong but you don’t know until you try. I also learned that scientists don’t do experiments that might be dangerous until they know it’s safe.
“This myth is definitely busted.”
The Mythbusters had many parts to their experiment that made it successful.
The first part of the Mythbusters experiment was to ask questions. The first question was, “Can a penny kill someone while falling?” They also asked, “Can a penny break concrete?” The next question that was asked was, “How fast can a penny go?” and “How fast does a penny have to go for it to kill someone?”
The next part of their experiment was how they were going to test their ideas. First, the Mythbusters made a staple gun fire pennies. Next, they made a head out of ballistics gel. They fired the penny at the head and it didn’t crack the skull. The Mythbusters needed to know how fast a penny could fall. They tested this by dropping it out of a plane, the penny dropped similar to the speed of a human that is falling. Their next test was to see if a penny broke concrete. They used their penny launcher and fired at the concrete, and it didn’t crack. The test helped the Mythbusters experiment greatly.
Another important factor in their experiment was how they dealt with change. In their testing, if something broke they would not only fix it but build on it as well. If the Mythbusters couldn’t fix something, they would have gave up and not gotten the results they got.
The final and very important part of their experiment was how they worked together. They worked together by figuring out how to test their ideas. Another way the Mythbusters worked together was discussing what happened during each of their tests. These discussions gave them ideas which helps them reach their result.
Both Mythbusters didn’t agree on everything. In the end, this was O.K. because they worked together to reach their results by compromising. The final verdict of all their experiments was that a penny could not crack concrete or kill someone. Their tests confirmed that it does not have enough mass to do serious damage to the human body or materialist item.
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What Questions Do They Ask?
The original questioniscan a penny thatis droppedoffthe empirestate buildinggo through concrete,asphalt,and if it landed on a person’s head kill them? To fully answer all these questions you have to break it up into littlr questions to explain different parts of the problem.The scientistsfound the fastest speed of a penny? How fast is the penny when dropped from the building. Ho fast does the penny have to go to do the first question?
How Do They Test Their Ideas?
One of the scientist jumped out of a plane and let pennies go into the air. They made a dummy ofa person an a modified riffle that would shoot the pennies at the correct speed on the dummy.They made a stapple gun fit a penny to make it shoot out.
How did they deal with change?
I really don’t think there was really all that much change, but by taking how they worked together I don’tit would run as smoothly as it could.
How Do They Work Together?
They really didn’t agree well in this project, they were more focused in their own work and werent paying attention to the other’s work. But strangely in the end it all worked out and it didn’t matter because they were still able to solve the mystery.
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