Assignment 3

By testing the magnetic field around ferrofluid it will move and distort into multiple round shapes with pointed tips. This liquid will react to the materials around it while forming around the object if provided a magnetic current. For example if you drop a penny in ferrofluid and place a magnet underneath the penny it will rise to the top of the fluid. Like any liquid it will react in waves if there is sound, but I want to see if the fluid will provide a sound of its own that can be recorded when there is a bass current underneath the fluid.
On another thought I would like to test the ferrofluid to see if color will react to the sound of a bass current in an electromagnetic dish.

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Week 3 Readings

I thought that the reading of the Mississippi river gave me a very visual representation of a large scaled system to a mass population. That river is used widely amongst its community to make lives easier when it is actually ruining the land around it. This article made me think about the process of trial and error in a systematic project. I took great interest in this since I have studied some about the way a river will move over a period of time and we are trying to corrupt nature using our technology. I didn't understand the way the river kept overflowing when they raised the levies, but I never thought the side rivers of the Mississippi having reduced water flow output would dig into the Earth solving the overflow.

Assignment 2

What I would like for materials would probably be some form of plastic or wood, something not heavy so it is easily movable. I would like crocodile clips to hook up with the plastic or wood to recreate a piano, it will have the different keys and notes. Whenever you touch the keys the clips will acknowledge the movement and produce a note that would make the sound of a piano.