This week, I did a lot of coding, and started using a game-making software called Unity. I made a few games in Scratch over the weekend. I also went to swimming, violin, taekwondo, and nature school this week. I did EMF and Brilliant every day of the week.
Hello Natasha!
How are you?
Here are your questions and the answers.
Have you ever seen digital mapping before?
No, I haven’t! It’s really cool, especially the one where you have the box of sand!
I want to make one of those 🙂
Is the SnapCircuits set new? Or are you returning to it now. I see how you are studying physics and then applying it.
Oh, the SnapCircuits® set was given to me a few years ago on Christmas. I was playing with it now and then, and I knew there was a project on there involving Capacitors, and so I made the circuit!
This week, I did a lot of coding, and started using a game-making software called Unity. I made a few games in Scratch over the weekend. I also went to swimming, violin, taekwondo, and nature school this week. I did EMF and Brilliant every day of the week.
I appreciate how you write up a brief summary of the week and then go into more details and photos of the week. It is an effective way to communicate to the reader (me). I know what highlights to look for and gives me a nice overview to refer back to as well.
I learned about resistors in series, which is basically having a few resistors one after the other in a circuit.
I learned about differentiability and continuity.
I learned why prime numbers make these interesting spirals. if you plot prime numbers on a polar coordinate system, and you zoom out, you get spirals, and if you zoom out even more, you get straight lines! I was looking up dIfferentiability on YouTube, and I found this on the front page, and it looked interesting, so I clicked on it! I learned a bit more about how polar coordinates work.
What interesting patterns these plots make. The spirals are beautiful in their own way. Interesting how spirals look like straight lines. I am not sure how that works. I can understand how a spiral line zoomed in would look straight, but the opposite being true is more difficult for me to visualize and understand.
Found an article you might enjoy reading: https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/unexpected-beauty-in-primes-b347fe0511b2
Unexpected Beauty in Primes
The Visualization of Primes & Its Potential Significance
The significance of prime numbers, in both everyday applications & as a subtopic pertinent to all branches of math, cannot be overstated. We quietly rely on their special properties to carry the backbone of countless parts of our society — all because they are an irreducible part of the very fabric of nature. Resistant to any further factorization, prime numbers are often referred to as the “atoms” of the math world. As Carl Sagan so eloquently describes them:
There’s a certain importance to prime numbers’ status as the most fundamental building blocks of all numbers, which are themselves the building blocks of our understanding of the universe.
The use of prime numbers in nature & in our lives are everywhere: cicadas time their life cycles by them, clock-makers use them to calculate ticks, & aeronautical engines use them to balance frequency of air pulses. However, all of these use-cases pale in comparison to the one fact every cryptographer is familiar with: prime numbers are at the very heart of modern computational security, which means prime numbers are directly responsible for securing pretty much everything. See that lock in the URL bar? Yeap, a two-key handshake powered by primes. How is your credit card protected on purchases? Again, encryption powered by primes.
The video was showing an interesting way to represent sound, using a laser light! You put a mirror on a speaker, and you shine a laser onto the mirror. Then, you play something through the speaker, and you get a shape on the wall!
Super cool!!
Indeed. I have to admit I love lazers and sound, but then again I have spent a lot of time at concerts, festivals and nightclubs with a lot of powerful lasers. Have you ever seen digital mapping before? My father saw it for the first time in his 80’s as part of an Opera performance. They had holograms of characters and the scenery changed by digital mapping images. He was in awe.
Here are 20 incredible digital mapping projects from around the world.
https://www.creativebloq.com/video/projection-mapping-912849
Youtube channel
Wow, that’s amazing, 8319 views and 43 new subscribers in the last 28 days! I was checking this because I wanted to get an idea for a video. Turns out that coding videos are popular nowadays.
I taught my mom about derivatives of inverse functions.
Happy to hear your Youtube channel is growing and being watched. Amazing!! Well done Ethan. I can imagine seeing all of the data on what is most watched is interesting to see.
I love your videos on space, but I think coding is very popular especially with youth these days.
- There is a capacitor inside my SnapCircuits® set! I created some charging and discharging in my SnapCircuits® set.
Is the SnapCircuits set new? Or are you returning to it now. I see how you are studying physics and then applying it.
- I learned about the conservation of charge rule.
Your blog on the flares from an active galaxy was very detailed, well done!
Most exceptional teacher in the world awarded to…..: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/12/966835697/village-teacher-wins-1-million-prize-for-worlds-most-exceptional-educator?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1pX1XakLBfRoMCCeW6xY1akAMvX_Ks6WjZ8j-iKXyDkqN_Lbdnmi3pYIc
I thought you might enjoy this article and how this teacher was able to use technology to reach more students especially girls in his area in India….
In honor of Black History month, I am offering this song, a 30 year remake of Biko by Peter Gabriel. He has gathered an incredible group of artists from around the world to make this version in 2020. Perhaps you are familiar with a few of them? Or you can type in their names to hear more of their original music. You can read an article about this new collaboration here:
I listened to this one over and over again in the 80’s as a young girl of 10 to 12 years old. I was inspired to learn more about Aparteid in South Africa, racism in the US and peaceful freedom fighters like Steve Biko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Biko
One of the most powerful lyrics is:
I believe that the flames burned high this last summer with the BLM movement and continue as we see peaceful resistance movements around the world.
Let me know what you think or feel when you listen to this song.
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