And Yet Another Food Blog...

On Tuesday of last week, I was left at home by myself while my mom took my sister to trumpet lessons. Lucky for me, my mom made food before she left. She made stew in a Crock Pot for me. Yay for food! :]


Anyways, the idea of a Crock Pot is to let the food cook all day in it until it's ready. So you can do other stuff without worrying about burning your house down. It's pretty neat actually. But that's beside the point. When I was ready to eat, I took the plastic lid off and put it on the counter next to me. I served myself the food I wanted, but when I went to put the cover back on, the cover didn't want to come off the counter (Ew. My hand looks gross in that picture...>.<)


I took a closer look to see what happened. I realized that the condensation on the inside of the cover fell, creating a seal that isolated the air that was under the cover. That air was very hot because it had just come off of a hot Crock Pot, and when the air cooled, it contracted a little. The pressure outside of the cover was greater than that inside the cover, so the cover was essentially "stuck."


To solve my little dilemma, I scooted the cover to the edge of the counter so that air could be let inside, lessening the pressure, and allowing the cover to be removed.

My mom says I always tend to think of blogs when I'm eating...Or when I'm with my dad. We were discussing the specific heat of spaghetti sauce yesterday. Haha. What physics nerds. I love you, Mom and Dad! Anyways, I hope you all have a great week!

Yet Another California Blog...

I apologize to all you people out there who are sick of my California-related blogs. But this just might be the last one. Anyway, in California, it was very cold and the air was dry. It kinda sucked. What sucked even more was the fact that when we touched a car door or even just something metal, we were shocked. Same effect as if you were to drag your feet on a carpet and touch something metal.

That's not what my blog is about though. Every morning, I had to wake up, and since I'm a girl, I had to brush my hair. My conditioner was pretty junk, so it was no easy task. I had to brush my hair many more times than I do here. BAD MOVE. Okay, well it wasn't bad, but just weird. I reached for my plastic hair brush and started running it through my hair. After a couple strokes, I started hearing a crackling noise. Kind of like the crackling you hear when you pull apart a soccer sock from a shirt while folding clothes freshly out of the dryer. I thought it was my imagination and ignored it. Then it got louder. I still chose to ignore it. I was very tired, so my eyes were closed the entire time.

I brushed my hair another couple minutes, and opened my eyes to look at myself in the mirror. My eyes widened as I realized that my hair was static-y. I tried to smooth it down with my hand, but it just floated right back up again. It was rather humorous. I don't have a picture of that, so have a picture of me brushing my hair wearing an All Time Low t-shirt instead.



Well yeah. I thought of this while I was reading the text book. The brush created a charge in my hair, and whatever the charge was, the other hairs were the same charge. Thus, the hairs repelled each other which made them stand up and "gain volume." Haha.

That's about it. I dislike third quarter very much. I tend to lose motivation which makes my grades go down. And since my grades were already not very good last quarter, what does that mean for this quarter? O_o Sorry. I felt like ranting for a little bit. Anyway, have a good week. :]

Sledding?!

Okay well, this blog is a little early because I'm not going to be home tomorrow night. YAY!

Anyways, as you read from my lest blog, I went to California this past break. While I was there in the snow, my friend and I went sledding as well as snowman building. Well, it was more like fail sledding. Haha. It was virtually flat, so we had zero chance of eating it in the snow. So we started out pulling each other around. It wasn't that fun. We decided to change our tactics (when Kiana pulled the sled so hard that I almost fell off) and found a little hill next to our flat ground.

See? That's me in my adorable little pom pom hat. Haha. Almost falling out...>___<
That's our little hill. I increased my potential energy so that my kinetic energy would be increased and thus my speed would increase too. My friend and my dad also used the hill while sledding, but we found that I went the furthest.

I was wondering why this was until I realized the equation for kinetic energy is 1/5mv^2. My mass was the smallest, so my velocity was greater, thus I went farthest. Well, that's that. I don't know what else I can say about this. So yeah. Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day everyone! :]


And here are pictures from Tower of Terror which was what my first blog was about. There's me, Kiana, and our friend Taylor repping Hawaii. XD So moke. Haha.

Freezing in Cali

This winter break, I went to California with my best friend to visit my dad. I saw quite a few Physics concepts while I was up there.

Here we are freezing in the snow. I think this relates to thermodynamics...Or I hope it does, because if not, this is a wasted blog.

Anyway, it was colder outside than inside our bodies. Therefore the heat was leaving our bodies and going into the air. However, to keep warm, we put on layers and layers of clothing to prevent the heat from leaving. Actually, in this picture, I think I only have on a long sleeved shirt under the jacket, but that's beside the point. The hat helped too. It has a pom pom on it. :D

While I was on my trip, I told my sister about how cold I was while she was comfortably sitting at home here in Hawaii. Her response? "It's because you don't have any meat on you!" In a way, I suppose it's true. I have a very small amount of insulation compared to other people, thus I get colder more easily. Which is why I don't suggest skinny people go into 40 degree weather at night time like I did. Now THAT'S a dumb mistake of the week right there. Once I had some hot chocolate, though, the heat from it temporarily entered my body and made me stop shivering. But then again, THAT heat left too, and I was cold again. I guess I experienced thermodynamics in motion even though I didn't learn about it yet.

Here are the snowmen we made. Any suggestions for names? I still need to name the little one. :]