It's not a real force!

Today we are learning about circular motion along with centripetal (real) and cetrifugal (fake) forces.

One of the tricks is trying to get the students to understand that the forces are because of the constantly changing velocity.

There is lots of drawing circles and arrows on the board, and then me swinging a bucket of water around and above my head.

I haven't swung the bucket yet, hopefully it works well :)

Early morning meetings

So I find myself at work way too early in the morning due to staff meetings. We are now meeting for almost an hour before school once a week. That means that we don't get done with that meeting until about 10 minutes before school starts. Which in turn means that if you need to get any work done before school you have to get here very early.

In other news my Physics class will be taking a test on Projectile Motion today. I have a feeling it will either go really well, or really poorly.

Fire Marshall

I have had yet another run in with the State Fire Inspector.

In his report he listed that we didn't have the Science Lab Safety Checklist on file.

But, he never asked anyone if we had one.

I'm pretty sure that "on file" implies that the item in question has been filed away, out of sight. So how he presumed to know that we didn't have one I'm really not sure.

He even came into my room, while I was here, and didn't say or ask anything.

So I filled out the Checklist (for the 3rd time) and my boss told me to post it on the wall near the fire extinguisher.

Now, I'm pretty sure that papers attached to the wall is actually ever MORE of a fire hazard...but apparently I don't know enough about fire to have an opinion...

NaBloPoMo

Well it's Nation Blog Posting Month once again.

I've been so busy that I really forgot about my blog, even if I kept up with Twitter. But, I'm going to try again. I've been inspired by my friends who are taking the challenge of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).

So, hopefully I will manage to keep ot up for a whole month!