This week, I continued my swimming, violin, and taekwondo classes. I started my orchestra classes, and I started going to nature school! I also did two essays, one about the mandelbrot set, and another about the butterfly effect. These days, I’m learning to use Javascript and Java, instead of Scratch.
To start off the week, I did some writing about the Mandelbrot set! I was learning about this last week, so I just continued. See it here: https://www.howtodostuffwithethan.com/the-mandelbrot-set/ 
I learned about the Triboelectric effect. The Triboelectric effect is basically the reason that, if you rub your hair with a balloon, your hair sticks up! 
I did Brilliant every day of the week. This was a question about solving systems of equations. 
I started practicing for the FSA. I got 100% with language arts, and I got one wrong for math. But the FSA got postponed (AGAIN) so I don’t have to do it for, like, another week. 
I started learning about the COVID-19 virus, and simulations about it. I got interested because I made a Scratch simulation about viruses a LONG time ago (6 months ago), and I realized that it would be cool to make a simulation… 
And so, here it is, complete with a graph. It’s basically a buncha dots that move around randomly. At the start of the simulation, there are a LOT of susceptible dots and a few infected dots. Over time, if an infected dot comes into contact with a susceptible dot, then there is a certain chance that the susceptible dot will get infected. Find it here:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/473631102/
or
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/473063607/
or
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/474104358/
Here is the code. 
Here are the values you can change… 
And here is a video, explaining how to make this coding project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5R2Vd9ieEQ 
I learned about Jamacia, for my CIATCOTW (Color In All The Countries Of The World) project. 
I made a clock, with Javascript, with NO help AT ALL! The blue ring is the seconds, the green one is the minutes, and the red is the hours. The amount the rings are closed tell you how much time has passed. For example, it’s around 35 minutes at the time of this picture. I got the idea from a collection o clocks made by Jacob Foster. Here it is: https://codepen.io/collection/DqRNLQ/ 
I learned about projectile motion graphs. They are graphs of the acceleration in the x and y direction, the velocity in the x and y direction, and the x and y positions. 
I made my OWN projectile motion graphs about people throwing balls of off cliffs. Each one plots either the acceleration, velocity, or position verses time. 
I learned how to add and multiply derivatives, with the continuation of my calculus studies. 
I learned about Newton’s three-body problem, which is basically saying that it’s IMPOSSIBLE to predict what three or more gravitationally attracted bodies would do. I was looking for things that were chaotic, because the subject of my writing is about the butterfly effect. 
I learned about the butterfly effect. These things all helped me write about the butterfly effect. See it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14i7PpSlOAahKzYO8cNA9a23XGcbWCB2Sn2o-GPovv1c/edit?usp=sharing 
I made a platformer level creator in Scratch. 
I did some coding about the solar system, from Java! It’s for simulation of orbits. 
I created the popular 2048 game in Javascript. 
I got the tutorial from here, The Coding Train (Toot toot!). Except for the clock, all the coding in Java snd Javascript are from here.
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