HOMEWORK1

The simple machine I found was the FAN. You know,the one that helps us to save electricity and money by using it instead of the air-conditioner! By examining the blades and mechanism that makes them spin, i found out that the blades of the fan are actually connected to a central "hub"
where a simple machine which resembles a wheel and axle spins the "hub". Causing the blades to spin!

The main difference between a traditional wheel and axle and the Fan's wheel and axle is the facet that the traditional one uses good old fashioned muscle power while the Fan's one is spun by a electrical motor instead of some burly guy's arm!

( Could not paste picture as a virus wiped my hard drive blanker than a magnetised disc. I had reinstall everything! )

Simple Machines

This simple machine is a water faucet at the toilet (can't take picture so i took it from the internet...same thing anyway...quite blur)

This faucet has two types of simple machines...an incline plane, (front and back of faucet) and wheel & axle(top) determines the flowing of the water out of it (obvious).

The incline plane(back) is necessary because we need to turn it tight onto the pipe if not water would not be flowing out of it...and the front is for the person to wash clothes...or others (etc). the person can also use a hose and connect it to the faucet to extend it...


another simple machine..the wheel & axle...basically,the blue (so-called)wheel...is extended ..which is slightly different from the normal ones...
(those round 'wheels') it is extended so the person has to exert a little amount of force to turn on the tap...but the effort of course has to travel a longer distance than the load...(i think thats all)

if you people out there are still using the old kind of faucet..i recommend you to buy the faucet i'm using as it is convinient and efficient!!!!TRY ONE!!!!

Homework 1

I have found a simple machine. Its the water faucet. I'm sorry i cant take a picture of it and i do not know how to place a picture there. Anyway the water faucet has 2 types of simple machine. It has an inclined plane and a wheel axle. For the wheel and axle, the effort has to move a longer distance than the load but the effort used is lesser than the amount needed to push the tap up for the water to come out of the tap. As for the inclined plane, we people turn the tap to either close it or to switch it on. If it is not closed, it water would be flowing out endlessly. Thanks for reading this and hope you understand what i said.

Pulley System - Clothes Hanger

This clothes hanger is made of a pulley system that consists of a fixed pulley seen at the top - attached to the ceiling and a movable pulley seen at the bottom that determines the height at which the clothes are hung.

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The fixed pulley is necessary as the person (standing below) exerts an effort (pulling string) that makes the load (clothes) go in the opposite direction.

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The movable pulley reduces effort used but the trade-off for less effort is that the effort must travel a longer distance than the load. - meaning you will have to pull the string for a longer distance than the distance that the clothes will move up.

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If you have one at home, try it out.

3days which ROCKED!!

The first day we played many fun games like the awesome Wheel of Fortune , continuing a story and for some 'medium shy', charades (word might be spelled wrongly). I have learnt to think quick on my feet and also to be less shy. I enjoyed having to do experiments on the last day rather than reading it in books! They have taught me more about science and that teamwork and cooperation is needed to finish an experiment too.

The 3 days at school

The first day we sat in a circle and played some games and it was fun, we had to use our cards if not we will have to get into the arena and make people buy the item you are selling.The second day we sat in fours and do some maths questions and my teacher scold wei zhi for not paying attention but actually he was sick.The third day, we did hands on activities and at the end of the day our class had a party.I enjoy the lessons.

Hi Kiddies - from Hong Kong

Well at last I'm enjoying a bit of a BREAK!

You may not know his but these first 2 terms have been extremely taxing for me!! What with the 36 of you and the Science department and RSVP and whta not.....

Anyway, you know what - there is now 1 term left before the big day - shall I say the Big Days! One more intensive term of preparation and we'll be there!

I hope you all are having lots of fun. Do share what you've been up to these past few days. As for me I've left poor Fifi behind at the Pet Hotel - I'll hear all about it when I'm back from the 'lady' herself.

Until then, aurevoir.

Mrs Chien

THE AWESOME EXTREME THREE DAYS

The holiday programme was awesome!!!!!!!The arena was so cool.(can't u see my actions of a kitten -.-"""""""""""""")I luv the maths day the most!!!
Finding patterns to me is peanuts (uhmm not bragging ahh ^.^)And for the science , i did the one with the boiling water. The water was so HOT!!!i nearly scalded my hand!!!And i find it amazing that we finsihed the lunch in 12minutes(maybe a world record hahahah!!)

I'm in the polluted capital land of Indonesia!!!

Like what the title of my post says... I'm in the polluted capital land of indonesia AKA Jakarta, my homeland.!!! Seriously. You can't see even a tinge of blue in the skies! Only grey, grey and more grey. Here's another thing. NO CLOUDS NOR STARS  o(T.T)o!!! Nevertheless, I love my homeland. I'll try describing my house.... there are two gardens, one outside and one inside (no roof on top) In the garden that is inside, there's a pond. With differently shaped and sizes (but still greedy) fishes inside. The living room has been turned into a shop and the kitchen is ... well, a kitchen. There used to be a super large storeroom which plays an important role in my life (that's another story). Now, that room is the "training room" where my Mother teaches about jewelry. Outside my house, there is a little... transportable mini shop... here, we call it a warung. These warungs are all over the place! The next few paragraphs are going to be about... different timelines.

Present: Presently, I am sitting at the beads bar. On the stool. Bored out of my mind, trying to do something productive and writing this. My mum's shop is known as the beadz. They're main concept is a bar. Look over at the chatbox and you'll know what I usually do...


PAST: Hm... let me see. Ah yes! My family (except my dad), friends and relatives went to the karaoke-ing since it was my sister's birthday yesterday... me and my sister's friend went crazy doing duets and stuff. (I don't need to go to the point do I?) If you read about the storeroom playing an important role in my life, it's because... I got stuck in there when I accidentaly locked myself in. Me being very extremely young, I couldn't open the door. After that, I learnt to, never fiddle with doors even when in your own home. xP


Future: Once my cousins get a holiday, I'll be going fishing with them! Wish me good luck! Oh and, megan, I might not be in Singapore and I might not be able to get time on the com so... HAPPY EARLY B'DAY!!! (Also to those whose birthdays are in June!!!)

Reasons to why I am writing this: I am bored. I want to do something productive. I want to share my life here with you guys! I want to practice writing without digressing... I hope I'm getting better since I always digress UNCONCIOUSLY. Did I mention it's because I am bored?

Visit me in Jakarta if you're here or if you're going here in the future! (And in the future, If I'm here!)

 I'll try to post some pictures of the shop's opening and the house (On june 14th) !!!

Mrs chien, you may delete this if you want... or you can edit some parts... Oh and please tell me if I'm digressing!!!!

-Fauzia (Signing off... Bye!!!)

3 days at school

When I woke up on the first day of this go-back-to-school-on-the-holidays programme, I was full with dread as did'nt know what to expect. So when I entered the classroom, I was very suprised to find the tables and chair arranged into a arena! Well, to cut it short, we played a short game called charades (I had to act out the phrase farting fear pie) I felt little embarrassed!

The next day, we did maths. Mrs Chien also introduced more on visualisation problems which we did throughout the day. At first I had a little bit of problem trying to visualising the problems, but I managed through.

The last day we did science. Mrs Chien prepared 2 experiments for us. The experiment that I did was based on the topic light. But no matter how we placed the torchlight, the datalogger still did not pick up any signs of light. But then the aroma of the pizzas wafted into my nose as it was brought in. We probably could have been in the guinness book world records for the fastest class party which lasted only for 12 minutes!Imanaged to eat 3 slices of pizza and gulped down lots of pepsi,coke,fanta,and juice. (I got a stomachache after that) What I do conclude that, those three days were the best!!!!