Sunday, May 11, 2014

Fat weighs Heavy on the Brain (Article)




Hello readers, I am back! It has been so long posting! I was in Washington D.C. for the graduation trip and it was great. Okay, no more chatting. I will summarize a article I have read and it is about a relationship between obesity and the brain.
Obese Person

 So there are a lot of researches and experiments going on in the article. They have earlier studies that also helped them to come up with their results. So the earlier studies had result of people with heart disease and high blood pressure (which is related to obesity in many ways) have scored lower memory, and on thinking and reasoning tests. 
 There is a resent experiment with a 150 people who has obesity and healthy people. Then they found out, in general, people with obesity scored a lower scores. 1 out of 4 scored low enough to be considered as learning disabled or handicapped.
 There was another research in different place. This was to figure it out what it really affects on the brain functioning. Researchers used MRI to see people's inside brain. They figured it out that people with obesity has this white, fatty substances surrounds and protects the bundle that shuffles the information in the brain. They said it might be not a damage of the brain, but the slight disconnection between brain and brain that sends the signals through out the brain.
 So the article gave a conclusion that obesity is not a good thing for inside and outside of the body. With some of the few facts, obesity makes people hard to breathe, make people unhealthy, damages your brain especially for paying attention and learning new things.
 So people, if you love eating and can not give up foods, please exercise. There is no single bad thing by exercising but bunch of advantages.  

This is the link for the article: Fat Weighs Heavy on the Brain

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

wave

Long time no post! Well, I was in a spring break last week and had no assignment during the break, which was great great great.
I came back with a new and important topic "wave". This is quite important part that you will never miss during the science class.
To the main idea, what do you think when I say wave? Ocean?  Dancing? Light? Sound? Microwave? Are you thinking why I wrote light, sound and microwave? well, I will explain it to you.
What is wave? In the subject science, wave is a rhythmic disturbances that carry energy without carrying matter. It is confusing, I know. So basically, imagine ocean and that wave you are thinking can be anywhere like water, air, ground, and outer space. You need to know that waves can use median(the matter like air, water) but doesn't shift together, in the case it uses median. But why is wave happening? It is for transferring energy. If there is a sound, the wave is a sound, the energy. If it is the light, light is an energy it's carrying.

 In a big range, there are two types of waves. One is mechanical wave and the other one is electomagnaic wave. To be honest, in my word, mechanical wave is the regular wave and electromagnatic wave is the not regular wave. It is not, but it is easier to me to think that way. So...
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Mechanical wave is the wave that uses median( the matter it is used for transferring energy, ex- air water)
But electromagnatic wave is a wave that does transferr energy WITHOUT median.
For example, light is one. Did you ever wonder how the light comes in across the space which does not contain oxygen? Well, as I said, it is because you don't need median. Like light, radio, x-ray, ultraviolet and infarared waves.

There are 2 types of waves inside mechanical wave. It is transverse wave and compressional wave. Transverse wave is a wave that moves up and down but that has energy going direction of 90degrees of the way the wave moves. For example, there is light
Compressional wave is when wave moves back and forth instead of up and down. The direction energy move is same way of the wave.


                                                        Compressional Wave (above)

Okay, now I will tell you how to make sound waves. I mean, how you make sounds. Sounds occur by the objects' vibration. Like guitar for example, when you hit the string, the string vibrates and make sound. Air takes the sound in compressional wave way, and that vibrates your eardrum and then canal, and send it to your brain in a process like this.

Lastly, I will tell you about the wave. 
Crest- Crest is the highest point of the transverse wave.
trough- Trough is the lowest point of the transverse wave.
Amplitude- Amplitude is the distance between the middle of wave and the crest or trough.
Wavelength- Wavelength=1/frequency. It is the distance between crest to crest or trough to trough
frequency- Is the amount it vibrates in a second. Unit is H. It shows the pitch of the sound.


Done with my post today! Thank you for reading and I hope you understood well. Than I'll see you in a week~

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Newton's Three Laws of Motion

Hello people, today is quite a clearing information blog of the previous things that I was talking about the Motions. So let's start.

The first law is basically law of inertia. What is inertia? I will give you an example.If you are in the car and when the your mom steps the break, you are body will go forward instead of sticking on the seat. This is the example of inertia. Also on the train. When the train departures, your body moves backward. And when the train stops, you move forward. These are because of inertia. You body tends to stay still  when it departures and tends to go forward when it stops.

 


Next I'll talk about the second law. Newton's second law is F=ma. So mass is kg, the original weight. Do you want to know the difference between mass and weight? Look up my previous blog. So lets say the mass of the box is 10kg and the acceleration is 5mph. So the force added there is 50N because it is 5*10. Well, this is basically everything about the second law.
Lastly, let me talk about the Newton's third law. This takes the motion's action and reaction. This means.. I'll give you an example. Lets say rocket wants to fly up in the sky. To fly, you will see the force working against the ground. So the way is upward and the force added is towards the ground. So for something to move itself, there must be the third law working.
 
 

Yay I am done. See you next week!

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Gravity



    Hey guys! I'm here. Today, I brought a new topic. It is gravity I am going to talk about it. Do you know what gravity is? Actually, this is really a important thing through out your life. You know what? You are actually depending on gravity right now, sitting wherever you are at. HEHE

    So~ What is gravity?
    Gravity is the natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body, such as Earth, upon objects at or near its surface, tending to draw them toward the center of the body.
    As it is in the definition, the common example of the gravity is the person standing on the Earth. Earth pulls everything towards to the center and this force is called gravity. Did you ever heard about Galileo? You will hear someday in the future,,
    Well, we have a lot of theories to talk about him. The one thing I am going to talk about is the thing about the gravity. You might have heard about the leaning Tower of Pisa, right? Galileo had an experiment on the top of the tower. He dropped two objects that has a different mass and saw that both objects reached the ground at the same time. This had a big affect on the whole world and this gave a result that if the object reaches the highest velocity of an object and then fall, the time of the both objects does reach the ground at the same time.
    After Galileo made this theory, Isaac Newton was born which is creepy at the same time..
    You know what Newton did? Well, he made a three laws of motion (the first law is at my previous blog~) and then he found out the "Gravity". The time apple had fallen on the Newton had made a question about the "Force" something that pulls all the objects downward. And he had studied and then he discovered about the universal gravitation.

    This tells that all the universe works by the gravity. By the way, this is a huge discover.
    To give some examples of the universal gravitation, lets talk about sun. Sun is having a huge mass that it has more "power(in my word)" that can pull the other planets stronger than it selves. But I know that you are thinking that 'why are the planets not going towards the sun?' Well, that is because each of the planets also have a force that tends to go outward. But since the distance of the sun is far, the forces are equal. That makes the planets to not get far and not get closed.

    Okay. So gravity depends on two facts: Mass and distance. I can tell you this all by the Sun and the Earth. I told you up there that since the sun is far away, the force that is pulling the Earth is weak, right? And I also told you that the reason sun has more gravitational force than any other planet is because sun has the huge mass. Solved it!
    There are people who are confused with the mass and weight. I will tell you the difference. The mass is the object that takes up the space. How about weight? Weight is the amount of gravity that needs to be pulled.  Lets say the mass of the human is 90 kg. In the earth, it is also 90 kg. This is the mass. Then how about weight? The person will have 882N in the Earth earth because Weight= 9.8 mass. So if this person's weight is 882N, it will be 147N in the moon because the weight in the moon is 1/6 of the earth. So did you got it??
    So this is all about my blog for today. I have specific information about Isaac Newton and the first law of the motion in the previous blogs, so check it out! Today, I got a definition of the gravity in dictionary.com and that the rest of the information, I got it from my head.
    So see you next week! And thank you.

    Monday, March 3, 2014

    Force

    Hello people! I am back now. Long time no post, right? Well, I am here and I am going to talk about "Force" today. Yay! Please read to the end even it's bored.So what is force? Force is a push or pull  upon an object resulting from object's interaction.
    You know when you play golf, golf club pushes the golf ball forward and it makes it fly. That is pushing used by force. When you type something on the keyboard, that is pushing even though it need small amount of force. And pushing your friend is also putting force in to it (Pushing friend isn't cool, so never do it).


    Newton
    Do you know what N stands for? It is Newton. This is the unit of the force. As what it is called, Sir Issac Newton had discovered it and that is why it is N.  Well, I must tell you how to get the force (I mean in equation). N(force)= mass*acceleration. For example, if there is 5kg of box and the object is moving by 2m/s^2, the force person is pushing the box will be 10N because 5*2=10. Easy right?


    Now let's talk about thrust. So, thrust is force that can be proved by Newton's second and third law. This is force of reaction. For example, say you want to jump. You will try to go upward. You body is flying upward, right? But your feet will press the ground to have a process of jumping. This is called Thrust. You push downward to jump. Got it?


    Net Force
    Now what is Net Force?(look at the image)
    Net force is the force added together. For example, if I am pushing the box with 5N and other person help you out and push with the force with 10N, the net force will be 15N. You get it now? But if somebody push against that person with same force above, the box will go backward 5N because it is 5-10.




    Next balanced and unbalanced force. This one is really simple. As the word says, it is the force balanced and unbalanced. I will give you examples for each forces. If there is two people pushing an object against each other with same force, that is balanced force. The force is balanced. When there are people pushing against with different force, that is unbalanced. You know if this happens, one side will get pushed.
    centripedalcentripetal force

    Now lastly!!! I will talk about centripetal force. Many people get confused with centrifugal force and centripetal force. It is important to know the difference. Both force occurs at the round place like circle. Centripetal force is a force that tends to go round. For example, lets say you have a heavy thing like marble on the edge of the thread. You hold the tope of the thread and put marble on the bottom side. Then you spin. The marble will go round, round and round. You will also realize it when you hold you had still, the marble will keep spin. This force that tends to spin is called centripetal force. Then, centrifugal force now. Before this, you know this that everything tends to go forward right? With the same material, when you spin and then instead of stopping you let it go, it will fly away going strait. By this, you can say that centripetal and centrifugal force is always 90 degrees.

    I got couple informations at my science textbook and mostly, I knew stuff. Haha.
     Okay this is end of force today! Each paragraph had different explaination and this will be easier to read. I hope you learned alot today. Thank you for reading.

    Monday, February 10, 2014

    Acceleration





    Hello!
    Today, I am going to talk about acceleration. The one I did previously is motion, which is quite similar with this today's topic.
    What is acceleration? Acceleration is the change in velocity divided by the time it takes for the change to occur. This is the definition.

    There are three ways of acceleration. It is speeding up, speeding down and changing direction.
    Let's start talking about those.
    Speeding up means speeding up. It is the other word for accelerating. Accelerating happens only when the motion and the velocity are in same direction. If the ball rolls to the right side and tend to go right side, acceleration will happen. Example of down hill is one of the same direction. You roll the ball down hill and it will accelerate as it goes down. This is also called positive acceleration.
    Next, it is slowing down, also deceleration. Opposing speeding up, it happens when motion and velocity is going on the opposite direction. Up hill is another example. When you roll up the hill, the motion is forward. but because of the gravity, it tends to go backward. So motion and velocity is opposite way. This is also called negative acceleration.
     There is a way to calculate acceleration. It is
    (Final Speed-Initial Speed) / time. To think easier, I will give you an example. Lets say that you went down the slide. The starting speed (initial speed) will be 0m per seconds .10 seconds later, the speed was 20m per seconds. So now you just need to put the numbers in.
    (20m per second-0m per second) /10second. This leaves 2m per s^2.
    Acceleration has s^2 always.
    Next, there is a graph of acceleration. The bottom line is time, and on the side is meter. When graph rises, it means it has acceleration. But when the slope is downward, it means it is slowing down. When the graph is constant, with no slope, means the speed is constant, nor slowing down or slowing up. There is one method my science tought us about the graph. When the graph has a smily face, it means it is positive graph, and when it is having opposite smiling graph form, it means negative acceleration. This really makes it easy to memorize.

    negative graph over here, red line is the negative graph that shows it slows down from 8th seconds.


    Wednesday, January 29, 2014

    Motion

    Hello everyone, long time no post! I came back with a topic "Motion". I know that you all have heard of it or even know what it is. For the people who don't know, I will talk about it today. As I start as usual, what is motion?

    Motion is any movement or change in position or time. For example of motion of your body, standing up and down, blood circulation, and stomach going up and down while you are breathing are the ones. There are a lot more examples, but I am not listing thousands of them here.

     I have many things to talk about.


    First, what is relative motion?'

    Relative motion is when an object changes position moving relative to a reference point. So let me give you an example. When I am on a train and let’s say the train is moving forward. Outside on the window, you will feel everything out there going backward instead of you on the train, going forward. On your reference point, it will be outside that goes backward and you staying still.
    relative motion
     Next thing you will learn is distance and displacement. I bet you know what distance is but not displacement, but the people who don’t know what it is…
    Distance is the measurement of the path you take to get to the finish. There a lot of units to show the distance, for instance, there are mm, cm, m, km, inch, feet, and yard. Many countries use mm, cm, m, km as a main units, but in U.S we use all, which kind of drives me crazy. Just to make sure you know, there are much more units used in the distance. If I give you an example, let’s say there is 100 m race in school. You know what? As it says, the distance is 100 m. Isn't it so simple?
     
    d is the displacement between (x1,y1) and (x2,y2)
    Since it is easy, I will explain what displacement is now. Displacement actually includes the distance, and it is the distance between the starting and ending points and the direction in which you travel. Let’s say you are late for something. You want to go faster than it usually takes, right? Maybe you can go shortcut without going all the way around something between you and the place you want to go. The shortcut is the displacement in an easy word to displacement. You go directly to the ending point. What you need to know additionally is that displacement can be 0 even though distance is not 0. So, when you come back to the spot where you had went off, I mean you go round and come back to starting line, displacement is 0.
     
    speed
    Next, we are going to learn about speed. I know that you know speed because it appears a lot of time our lives. It comes out on the computer game, on the road “speed limit” or in science and in math a lot, everywhere. Do you know the definition of the speed? Okay,  the speed is the distance an object travels in a unit of time. You can calculate the speed too. It is distance over time. This might confuse you, so I will explain it to you. Let’s say the car is moving 120miles in 2 hours, and let's say you want to figure out the speed of the car.Since the equation of the speed is distance/time, you just need to stick the numbers in, and it will be 120/2 which is 60. So the car is moving 60 miles per hour which is the speed of the car.
     Do you know the difference between velocity and speed? Many people think it is same. Well, that is what I thought too. You know what? They are different. Velocity is including the direction of the object, but speed does not. To give you the example, let's think that the car is moving toward NE and move toward south. In this case, you need to ask the velocity, not speed. That is the right word to say. But when the car goes in one way not thinking the direction it's going, you must say "Speed of the car" instead of velocity of the car.
     velocity
    Next lets talk about type of speeds. There is instantaneous speed and average speed. They are both part of speed. For the example, the bike is going one place to another place. Let's say that the bike went 2 km in 100 seconds. The average speed will be the average speed of the bike from the distance first to the end, 2 km. The speed will be 2000/100 which is 20 m per second. But instantaneous speed is the a little different. This is the speed at the instant time. Bike won't go 20 m per second exactly at every moment. The person could have slowed down and speed up later. So instantaneous speed can be the speed of the specific moment also the speed from 5 m to 15 m can be instantaneous speed which can be 15 m per second.


    These are the ones I wanted to explain to you today. I hope you understood even though I have a bad explanations. Thank you! 

    Sunday, December 15, 2013

    Issac Newton


      Hello, I am going to talk about Isaac Newton. Have you ever heard about him? If you haven't it will appear a lot in the future. Actually, you will learn about him during school. So, who is he? He is a gifted person in my opinion. He worked in science and math. Actually, he was great in science and math. He had made calculus, you know..
      Isaac Newton

       However, he has a sad story in his past. He was born in 1643, 1/4 at Woolsthorpe in England. He was born so small that nobody had expected him to stay alive. Newton's dad died three months before he was born, and I know it is sad because he couldn't see his son being called "The Father of Physics." Well, after Newton was born, mom had married the old guy, and Newton was sent to his grandmother. It is quite sad.. Actually, he almost become a farmer, but his uncle had convinced Isaac Newton's mother to let him go to Cambridge University.
       If I tell you about Newton's discovery through his life, even though he had a hard time in the past, he had worked in many things.
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      The first thing is that he had made CALCULUS. Calculus is the part of math learning in upper level. It is used to get the area of the irregular shapes like oval or something like that.
      The second thing he discovered is about the light. In the past, people had never thought that the white light is compound of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, navy, and violet. (In the future, optics and motions are discovered)  Also, he discovered that the light is made up of the particles.
      The third thing he discovered and defined is the laws of gravity.
      The fourth thing is that he defines  planetary motion.
      The fifth thing is that he defines three laws of motion. This describes that how all the universe act. This also explain how the gravitational force works. You know, Earth pulling the moon, and everything in the universe..
      The last is an invention. He invented a better telescope, a reflecting telescope. This telescope was using concave mirrors instead of lenses. This helped to look the object without loosing the original object's color.
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       You know what? He had been other things other than a person sitting and defining things. He was a professor of mathmatics, Member of the Royal Society (He was president each year until his death), he was also knighted by the Queen Anne for his contribution, which led him to award a knighthood for scientific achievement. The most shocking thing is that he was really religious. You know, it is extremely rare to see a great scientist to be a deeply religious person because those spirits are hard to relate with science, but Isaac Newton was different, he was religious.
       Oh! Did I tell you that he attended Cambridge University but had to go back to Woolsthorpe where he was born, and than had to come back to University 2 years later? There were bubonic plague through London, killing huge number of people. That made Cambridge school to close, and made him go back. Actually, returning to his house was a good thing. The year he was working at home is called "Miracle Year" now. He had figured out laws of motion, forces and gravity/ discovery of light and optics/inventing a new branch of math Calculus. These things happened this time between 1655-1667. Surprising right?
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       Newton died in 1727. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, and he was the first scientist to be awarded this high.
       So have you learn many things here? I hope you did, but if you think you need to learn more about it, click here!

      Sunday, December 8, 2013

      Heat

      Hello, I am back! Today I will talk about HEAT!!
      HEAT? What is that? Heat is the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another when two objects are brought into contact depends on the difference in temperature between the objects.
      You know what? You cannot survive without heat. Actually, none of the creatures can. Plants need heat to photosynthesis, animals need plants to survive, and us people need animal and plants to survive. Not only because we don't have food, we will die to freeze. There is a movie called "Tomorrow". The movie shows the people die from cold, I mean extremely cold. I recommend this movie!
       There are three ways of heat to be transferred. It is convection, condensation and radiation.
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      First, convection is the transfer of the thermal energy by the movement of atoms or molecules from one part of material to another. It is when the air or water become heated and rise up, the cold air or water falls back down where the heated air or water started from. If the cold air or water heats up again, it rises up and make the cycle. In real life, you can see convection when your mom boils the liquid to make food, or heating vent in the room can occur it. Did you ever wonder why air conditioner is high up near the ceiling and heating vent is at the bottom? It is because convection happens. If the air conditioner is at the bottom where heating vent is, the cold air won't rise up and try to stay on the bottom, and cycle won't work. Same reason as air conditioner, if heating vent is up in the room, where air conditioner is, hot air will try to stay up in the room. Oh, you know that convection occurs only with liquids or gas. What about solid? When the heat transfer occurs with solid, it is called conduction.
       Marshmallow conduction
      Conduction is transfer of thermal energy by direct contact. Not like convection, conduction occurs when the object is attached to the other object. For example, if you have a marshmallow and want to eat with the fire melting marshmallow, you have to stick the marshmallow on the stick and put directly in the fire. But!! if you feel that the stick is hot, you are holding a metal stick. The heat from the fire continuously heats up the the stick and the heat stretches out until where your hand is. So the heat from the fire touching the metal stick is called conduction. You might have not experienced burning your hand by melting marshmallow, and why is that? To be honest, market never sell metal stick for marshmallow so you don't  burn yourself. I don't really know what substance it is, but there are some that conduction doesn't happens easily. The substance is plastic, feather, and fur. They are poor conductors of heat, and the reason is because of the molecules' formation. Metals have uniformed closed molecules but the other substances I mentioned are having strip like arrangement. So the distance the heat can transfer is so far, and that is why.
       주택 - 태양열주택RADIATION
      The last, radiation is transfer of thermal energy without any object. The best example is the sun. Sun can heat up the house, but isn't it curious how it works without air or any object between? Radiation is the only way that it can transfer heat without any help. Not only the sun, but people also can have radiation to others since people also have heat inside, but it is just weak because the object that makes a heat which is us, doesn't have strong heat inside. 
       Do you know how the blanket keeps you warm? I am pretty sure you will wrap around the blanket to make yourself warm. Okay, so blanket doesn't make up heat. They only slow down the movement of the heat or they just prevents the heat. And that is how it works. Pretty simple right?
       POP QUESTION! What will have more heat inside, the metal stick in the fire or glacier? Answer is at the bottom!





      GLACIER






      The answer is glacier! You are surprised aren't you? The stick in the fire is much smaller that glacier, which means they hold different amount of heat inside. Since glacier has more molecules, it is hotter, but it just doesn't show it is hot because it is so big. Stick shows out it is hot because it is small. 
       Done! Interesting isn't it?? I hope you enjoyed.

      Sunday, December 1, 2013

      Sleeping Brains Take a Bath (Current Event)


       Hi! I’m back. I haven’t post anything for while. Sorry!
      Today, I am going to talk about interesting article. I went on the website called student science. I actually had posted once before, but if you want to visit, go on to the website Science Current Event. Press it!


      The topic I chose is called, “Sleeping Brains Take a Bath.”
      It is about what it exactly says on the title. Sleeping brain take a bath. Chiara Cirelli is a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She had an experiment with a mouse named Lulu. She had taken care of the mouse to have a good condition to sleep and good condition to have activities. Her effort was successful. Mouse had slept when she had made a good condition to sleep even it was the afternoon. She found out when mouse was asleep, the fluid floodgate had got opened, and when the fluid went through the brain cells, it washed away cellular litter. The garbage thing they are talking about is made up in the brain cell while animal is awake. When an animal is asleep, the fluid flows well. But when the animal is not in a deep sleep, the faucet like floodgate swells and lessen the fluid. The junk builds up in the brain while animal is awake. This junk is not good. This is related to Alzheimer disease. So it is not good.
       I think this article wants to tell you that sleeping helps not only your tiring but also it helps your brains functions well. 
       This is the end of the post today. It is kind of short but it has good contents! Thank you, Ill be back next week!

      Monday, November 18, 2013

      Energy (Mechanical)


      Hello people,,,
      Today I am going to talk about Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy.

      First, what is energy? Energy is the ability to cause change.

      So, what is kinetic energy and potential energy? You will be surprised if you learn what it is, because it is so near to you.

      To make it clear, I will tell you the definition first. Kinetic energy is the energy an object has due to its motion. If object isn’t moving, there is no kinetic energy, and Potential energy is the energy stored in an object because of its position.
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      It is hard to understand with these definitions, right? Okay. I will give you the examples. Let’s say there is a person on the bungee jumping. If a person is at the highest place, which is the place you jump, it means a person has most potential energy. When a person falls, the person will gradually get a kinetic energy. When a person reaches the bottom, the ground, it means a person has the most kinetic energy. When a person weights more, a person has more potential energy. If I say it easier, potential energy depends on its mass and heightbungee jumping
      bungee jumping

      Different with potential energy, kinetic energy depends on mass and speed. When the person weighs more, and when speed is faster, person has more kinetic energy than lighter person.
       
      Energy can be transferred and stored. Energy gets transferred when objects collide. I will make an example with bowling. When the bowling ball gains energy by a person who throws the ball, and when it rolls, it has kinetic energy. When the ball collides with the bowling pins, pins are gaining the energy. Since the pins don’t have wheels, it knocks out. Additionally, energy can never be destroy or created. It just looks like they do, but they are only changing the forms of the energy like potential and kinetic.
      I got definitions by the textbook physics!
      I hope you understood!

      Wednesday, November 6, 2013

      Matter Changing

       Im back! It's been long time to post.. Sorry! Today I am going to talk about the states of matter. It is not hard, and it will not confuse you. So follow me!!
      What is matter? Matter is anything that takes up space and has mass.
      There are three main states of matter. It is solid, liquid, and gas. There are couple more like plasma and colloid. Plasma is energy, that only occurs in super high temperature. Most of the structures in the universe is made of plasma, but there are really few in earth. Lightning is plasma, and stars are all plasma. Colloid is things like jelly, paint and rubber. You don't need to think about these, but three states solid, liquid and gas.


      Solid
      Solid is matter with definite shape and volume. The common example of solid is ice, frozen water. If you put the ice in a beaker, you won't see ice changing it's shape. An ice will retain their shape even you put in container.
      If you put an ice at the room, it will melt. Melting is what we call when solid changes to liquid, like an ice changing in to water. Do you know why melting happens? It is because of temperature of the room. Water tend to stay at state of liquid when the temperature is between boiling point (100°C) and freezing point(0°C), also called melting point(0°C). 
      Heat of fusion is also heat energy that helps to break the state of solid.

      Additionaly, heat of vaporation is energy that adds to liquid to change to gas.

      Liquid
      Liquid is also the state you would see easily around you. It has definite volume, but not definite shape. If you pour the water in different shape of containers, the shape of water changes as the shape of container. Water is only formed when the water (H2O) is between the temperature of 0 and 100 degrees of Celsius. Liquid vibrates just like the other states, but not more than gas does.

      Gas
      Gas is when the state gained the most energy. The gas tend to move farther and farther. In the state of gas, water molecules move around randomly, free! But one thing you really have to remember is that when the state of water changes, that doesn't mean the chemical properties changes, but it is only physical change. Chemicals retain as water molecule (H2O) doesn't matter what state the water is. 

      Sublimation is when solid matter changes to gas without the step of liquid. OR it can work opposite. The example is dry ice. Dry ice can change to gas right away. 
      Condensation is when gas changes to liquid. For example, when there is a cup of water, and if you put in your room, the surface of the water bottle will have drops of water sticking on the side. The water on the side of the cup is happened because of the gas around the cup.
      Deposition is when gas changes to solid opposing sublimation. When the when the vapor on the air changes to frost, that is deposition. You can see this in the morning at cold area.


      It is not true if you think all the matter has the same boiling point and melting point. Water is just one good example. Dry ice is the state of solid of carbon dioxide. In the case of dry ice, this changes to gas(sublimation) in the temperature of 25°C, not 0°C. So you need to remember that not all the matter has the same boiling point and melting points.

      DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

      Monday, October 21, 2013

      Ancient flower blooms again

      Hello people, today I brought different type of topic than before.Sorry I didn't posted for a while.
      Today, I am going to talk about current event related to science. I found an article that I am interested in Student Science. My science teacher told me about the website, and it is really good that I want to recommend this website.


       The topic I chose is "Ancient flower blooms again". This is about a particular flower that once grew in ancient time. Scientist had found the fruit underground in Siberia. Fruit had been frozen about for 30,000 years. Using piece of fruit, scientist grew the plants in the lab.
      The plant grew was really similar as modern-day related flower. Silene stenophylla was the plant's name. The ancient flower and modern flower was little different. Ancient flowers are more narrow and had less fringed shape.
      So it proved that plant tissues can be preserved and be shown again. Scientists are trying to preserve modern plants in the giant locker. Now, scientists are trying to save modern-plants' seed for the future.

      Done! In the website, you can see many new interesting things, so If you want to see the original website, go to
      https://student.societyforscience.org/article/ancient-flower-blooms-again?mode=topic&context=79

      Sunday, September 29, 2013

      Chemical Bonds (Reactions)

       Hello, I’m back. Today is really tired because I have so many works to finish... But even I am tired; I am still going to post my works.
       Today, I am going to post about Chemical Bonds
       Chemical reactions happen around us all the time. This happens when plants photosynthesis to change energy from sun in to food, while cooking foods, and burning fuels.
       Chemical reaction is a process when one or more substances are changed in to other substances.
























         I will review what atom is first. (It's the first post I published). Atom is made up of nucleus and electrons. Nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons. As it sounds like, protons have positive charge and neutrons have no charge. Around the nucleus, there are different numbers of shells depending on the elements. These shells are the track for the electrons. There 2 electrons on the first shell, and 8 electrons from next. Electrons orbit the nucleus really fast. So the people call the form of orbiting cloud since it looks like a cloud.


      We call the electrons on the outer shell Valence electrons. Valence electrons are electrons that can be shared with the other atoms. These valence electrons can be 1, 8 or between those numbers.
      valence shell

      If the atom holds full shell on the outer shell, we call it is “stable”. When the outer shell is not full, which means there are no 8 electrons on the outer shell, we call it “unstable”.
      When there are unstable atoms, atoms try to gain, loose or share.

      Ionic bond is when metallic positive ion and non-metallic ion bonds by electrostatic attraction. Electrostatic attraction is a force that draws two elements together. For example, there is NaCl. This is compound of sodium and chlorine. Sodium has 11 electrons, and chlorine has 17 electrons. This tells that sodium has 1 electron at the outer shell, and chlorine has 7 at the outer shell. Try to be stable, these elements will lose, gain or share the electrons, but since they are ionic bond, they will lose and gain the electrons. Sodium will give 1 electron and be + charged. Then, chlorine will gain one electron that sodium gave. So, chlorine will have 8 electrons at the outer shell which is stable. 

       Covalent bond is a combination of non-metal elements sharing electrons. Different with ionic bonds, covalent bonds can have simple substance and compounds. For example, H2 is a covalent bond. Each of the hydrogen share 1 electron. By adding 1 more electron, it makes outer shell full, which has 2 electrons. The other example of covalent bond compound is water, H2O. H2O Is combination of 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen. Oxygen has 6 electrons on the outer shell, and hydrogen has 1 electron at the outer shell. To be stable, oxygen needs 2 more electrons, but Hydrogen can only share 1 electron because hydrogen only have 1 electron at the outer shell. So to make 2 electrons, oxygen combines with 2 hydrogen which can add 2 more electrons, By sharing 1 electrons each with oxygen and hydrogen, it makes 2 hydrogen and an oxygen have full shells. 

      Done! Did you learned A LOT? I hope you did, So...I will post next topic by next week! Come and read it again please! Bye~

      Sunday, September 22, 2013

      Periodic table


      Hi people! I'm back! I always start with word hello or hi. Haha
      I’m going to explain about periodic table today.
      What is periodic table?
      Periodic table is a list of all the chemical elements that occur is the universe. 







      If you see the periodic table, you might see 118 squares(well, there are 110 on this...), which means that there are 118 of elements discovered.you see each of the square,right? There will be alphabet, and numbers in the square.
       For example of Oxygen, there is O at the middle of the square and 8 on the top and 16 15.99 on the bottom. O means the oxygen. The letter on the middle is the abbreviation of the element. For Hydrogen and Helium, the element on the front gets the first letter H and the last element gets the first letter and second letter H and E, and then put it together to make HE. The number on the top of the square which is 8, is the atomic number of that element. Atomic number is number of protons, and this is also number of electron of that oxygen, because with no exception, electrons have same number of protons have.  So Oxygen has 8 protons and electrons. The number on the bottom is the mass number. This tells how heavy the oxygen is. The mass of the atom is the mass of nucleus(protons + neutrons). So oxygen has 8 protons and 8 nucleus, and the mass of those are about 15.99.


      Dmitri Mendeleev is a Russian guy who created periodic table.He also predicted some of elements that wasn't discovered yet, and he made empty spot for undiscovered elements.
        He arranged the periodic table as period and groups. Group is the vertical line of the periodic table and there are 18 groups. Period is a horizontal line of the periodic table. There are 7 periods. Period is arranged by the number of electrons. At a single atom, there are electrons that has 2 on the first electron shell, 8 on the next one and going on by 8 electrons. 2,8,8,8,8... is the most stable way to bond it self together. So the by the number of electron shell changes, periods change.





      Periodic table is made up of metal and non-metal. Metal is located on left and middle of periodic table and non-metal is on the right of the periodic table. two-third of the periodic table is metal and rest of em is non-metal.
      Inside that, there are
        Alkali metals like sodium. Alkali metal can react with water to produce alkaline solutions. (1 group except Hydrogen)
       Alkaline-earth metals is like calcium. It also produce alkaline solutions when it combined with water and are found all over the place on earth.(2 group)
      Transition metals like iron. They are strong and shiny. (3~12 groups)
      Poor metals like led. They are soft with low melting points.
      Semi metals like silicon conduct electricity only under certain conditions and are useful in electronics.
      Nonmetals have a variety of properties. It include the carbon, nitrogen,and oxygen vital to life on Earth.
      Nobel gases like helium and neon. It have outer electron shells that are full, and so they don't often react with other elements.

      Yeah! I'm done! Are you happy with it? I hope you do! Next week. I will come up with other science topic!!Thank you for reading this and I hope this solved your questions! Bye~