Week Two Reflection

eek Two, we talked about matter, I have a brief understanding of matter and that it is something we can touch and see has matter. Even water has matter, though we can move through it.  I've always been fascinated by how things were made and why.  Being in this class gives me the opportunity to help how things work. we started an experiment in he back of the Mr. Abud's room where we lit  a can filled with methane and oxygen with two holes in it. One at the top and the bottom. The hole at the bottom where Mr. Abud filled the can with methane from the hole at the bottom of the can. We kept the methane from leaking out with a rubber stopper at the top hole.  The our great teacher put the can behind a plastic guard, removed the rubber stopper, took a match and lit hit on fire. It burst upward in a flame which I didn't expect at all. I thought it was the coolest tiny I've have ever done in a science class besides boat racing last year. You see last I was in physics call and we had to make boat float across the North pool and race a 50 (across once and back). All the boats were made of cardboard and duck tape.... I know "crazy right!?!?" how can something like that float... Nevertheless when it was time race our boats preformed honorably, although there were a few that capsized and life guards had to get them from the bottom from the pool everyone gave them a round of applause for their strong swimming. I've gotten off topic. Back to Chemistry the flame. The flame in can was at least 2 feet tall, but then Mr.Abud asked everyone what they would think when the methane fueling the flame runs out. I said, "It would just go pop" well that's what I thought; many people thought it was snuff itself out an nothing would happen. As the flame got smaller and smaller anticipation grew larger and larger until finally!!! BLAM!!!!!!!  a huge flare of fire came out of the can as like on the fourth of July at the very end of the fireworks there was a last huge bang!!!! And everyone cheers. The flare shocked me for a split second but i kind of knew that something like that would happen. that probably the best week of school so far that I can remember. After all of the excitement we started study how to get the volume and how it connected to the mass so using cylinder and prisms we took 5 measurements over all. We used the equation length time’s width time’s height and measured the volume. The graphed the measurements on an x-axis and y-axis the graph showed a direct relationship between volume and mass using metal cubes and rectangular prisms of different masses and sizes. The result... well... lets just say it was weird. That basically sums up what we did in week two so please keep reading my blog and await for next weeks blog im sure MR. Abud has some interesting ideas for it, just like this one.