The Big 3

This is my first blog in FOREVER (sorry Shirley and Ashley). The past couple weeks we've been talking about position, distance, and displacement in that order. If I'm not mistaken, these are the definitions-

Position- where you are relative to the reference point (reference point= 0)

Distance- I'm a little confused about this one.
-how far you traveled
Ex. If you went 5 spots up then 3 back your distance is 8

Displacement- the change in position of the object
Ex. Your object is at 3 then moves to 9. The displacement is 6 (3+x=9)

I really think our teacher needs to step in and give us a solid definition as the class has only been making everyone more confused.

We haven't been doing many labs but we have been discussing these worksheets which deal with those three definitions. My participation in the discussions is uncommon- I don't know what to say/how to explain the topic. The class discussions have been good though. A great debate. But like all debates, no one know who is right which makes it problematic. Physics is going good and it's been a fun class.

Slope and speed lab

In class we've been working with slope speed and so on. These are pretty cool topics to me so I'm pretty excited to do these labs. Before we started the labs, we got into a debate about if slope is directly related to speed. Most say yes, few say no. I am on the yes side because if you have a big slope you are doing whatever per unit of time faster. Fairly simple debate but I think it's a good topic to debate about... We never finished it. Aside from that the labs we are doing are kind of confusing. I would've liked more of an explanation on what to do after we set up our computers and 'dora'. More on the lab next blog.