I can hardly believe how far we are into the year so far. Almost a quarter away from the year gone. I like the progress, seeing as last year was excruciatingly long in contrast. For whatever reason why this year is going fast, it may be going too fast. Most of my grades are okay, but if there are anymore final assessments for the year (in every class, not just one), I might be in for some trouble later.
Concerning this class I'm not so concerned as usual. The material is still at its typical difficulty. So with that there isn't much to report. However, something notable that I never really thought about was how expansion is measured to find the temperature. In honesty, besides in an actual thermometer, I've never seem liquid expansion before, so when I saw the ethanol vs water demonstration, my alarms went off at the sight. Sure I know expansion, and I've seen it in solids, maybe gas, but never liquid. So as soon as I understood the concept and linked it to a thermometer, boom! It all made sense. Thinking about this more, I realize this can happen with any substance really, as long as you record the distance measurements with their respective temperature. But now I wonder, how does a digital thermometer work? Well, off to howstuffworks.com...
Meanwhile, I got to mention that I am continuously missing these blogs and twitter posts. Partially, it's my own fault for forgetting, but influencing this was my laptop charger which went into panic mode one day and shut off for a week. I was about ready to send it in for a RMA, but suddenly it works. Without my laptop, I would have to use my old and sluggish project PC, which most of the time I neglected use because of its immobility. The laptop's working now, so hopefully I can be consistent with these posts.
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