Abundance....

went to Aldi....bought 4 X 4packs of V (16 cans)...overhead this girl complaining to her 'nan' about how i was getting so many and she wasn't allowed to get one...felt a little guilty...until nanna looked at me with one of those old lady dirties so then i just grinned at her and skipped away with the cans humming 'a few of my favouirite things'(i'm pretty sure i felt burning on the back of my skull)...

SERIOUS NOTE: i plan to begin testing this week, either Tuesday or Wednesday

science 'inspires' me.....

I realise it might be a bit redundant to mention where i got the inspiration for this experiment now that i've already done the aim and hypothesis, but better never than late...which is exactly why i'm NOT telling you that the links to the websites for my research are in the sidebar labelled 'Research Links', and it is also why i am NOT displaying the original experiment testing reaction time, from the yr 9 co-ordination unit last year, in the space below.....

what to do, what to do, what to do, part 2

Aim, Hypothesis, Method etc.

NOTES:
- As of yet, i plan on making the given time 2 hours (preferably 3 hours) but if i cannot get enough people to do volunteer for that long, then i may reduce it to 1 and a half hours or possibly just one hour.
- I know the cup thing in step 9 is kind of a given, but just taking precautions...

moving on...


I plan to determine how the consumption of a certain quantity of energy drink effects the visual reaction time of humans over a given period of time.

I am hypothesising that the visual reaction time of humans lowers at a steady rate after the energy drink is consumed and will rise rapidly after reaching its lowest point.

Equipment:

- 30cm Ruler
- Table or Bench
- 15 Energy Drink cans
- mL measuring jug
- 30 cups
- Stopwatch
- Writing utensils (recording table)


Method:
1. Place forearm of human volunteer on the table/bench with open hand, palm facing horizontal, over ledge
2. Hold ruler vertically, immediately above volunteers' open hand
3. Release ruler, ensuring volunteer encloses hand around ruler as quickly as possible, without removing forearm from bench
4. Record, the distance on the ruler where it is clasped by the top of the volunteers' hand, into table
5. Repeat steps 1-4 twice more
6. Measure half of energy drink volume of can, into cup, using measuring jug
7. Start stopwatch as volunteer drinks contents of cup
8. Repeat steps 1-4 at 10 mins on stopwatch, also recording time steps were carried out. Continue doing so at 10 min intervals until stopwatch reaches 2 hrs
9. Repeat steps 1-8 with 29 other human volunteers, using a new cup for each volunteer

Out of Commission much?

It would be a really lame excuse to say that i did the graph and some research during the holidays but just didn't put it on my blog, but it's still true....

[I blame my pathological inability to do anything BEFORE i'm actually required to]

NOTE TO SELF: UPDATE REGULARLY!!!

Well anyway....to turning over a new piece of bark (leaves are overrated), here is my climatic graph....