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My teammates said they thought the tiebreaker was a trick question- it said windmill instead of wind turbine. According to them, they put down that windmills don't do that, but wind turbines do, and wrote about how turbines converted wind energy into electricity.

oh, that makes sense. Idk who was right; they probably never even used the tiebreaker because there was so much precision in the voltmeter. I loved how they had a computer doing the data, that was really cool! (and more accurate than looking at a voltmeter every second and trying to catch when it's highest)

The MI test was really easy. The CD player at the competetion was different then the one we practiced on so our blades kept hitting and got slowed down. We got a combined voltage of 1300. What did others get yesterday.

the MI test was hard! our notes were useless.... (i know fail) our low was....846? and our high was 1345

The MI test was a piece of cake! It took us 12 minutes! We got a high of 1678 and a low of 1074, so a combined of 2752. We placed 5th, but could've done better if they had a better mount. They left the top part of the plastic on, and our blades kept hitting the plastic...

I'm no PSL expert, but the building portion of the wiki was just so bare I had to write something. So if I made any major mistakes, please fix it/let me know.

http://scioly.org/wiki/Physical_Science_Lab

On the test at nats, will there be much on physics or do you think it will mostly be on alternative energy? At states it was nearly even in those categories, but nationals could be different.

blue cobra wrote:I'm no PSL expert, but the building portion of the wiki was just so bare I had to write something. So if I made any major mistakes, please fix it/let me know.

http://scioly.org/wiki/Physical_Science_Lab

It looks good to me. I ran out of time to figure some of that stuff out.

blue cobra wrote:I'm no PSL expert, but the building portion of the wiki was just so bare I had to write something. So if I made any major mistakes, please fix it/let me know.

http://scioly.org/wiki/Physical_Science_Lab

Looks pretty good. At the end you mentioned that 2 devices are allowed. You might want to point out that this is only the case in B division. High school teams may only impound one device.

That 2 devices sentence was already there, but I fixed it. Thanks for pointing that out.