Derek's DP

Art Independent Pages

desertrat68 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:46:20 +0000

These are just ten random art pages that my art teacher had assigned us to create individually.

Math/Physics Behind a movie stunt

desertrat68 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:26:49 +0000

This is a video hopefully it will explain itself.

Math Furniture Project

desertrat68 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:42:05 +0000

This is a bench that me and two other students built. We first started with a scale drawing and measurements drawn to scale. After that we started building. We Built the whole bench in three hours. That includes sanding a extra details. We did not do a good job of painting it and hopefully we’ll repaint it. There is also a poster I created with details about the furniture.

Roller Coaster Project

desertrat68 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:32:57 +0000

In this project we designed and built roller coasters. With this project we studied to physics behind a roller coaster. An example would be how mass, friction, weight, speed, and velocity all apply to a roller coaster. I worked with a partner on this project and we named it TWISTER! because of its unique coiling design. The railing that the roller car rode on was made from copper tubing and the stand which held it up was made up from PVC tubing. I made a actual rolling cart rather than a marble. The roller car uses roller skate bearings to ride the rail with and a compartment made of Legos held some more bearings as weight. We also had a pulley with two chain links hanging from it as a back up car. Both the pulley and bearings car work perfectly. The weight became a huge factor to keep the coasters momentum throughout the track. Some re designing had to be done to make the rail balanced and keep the cars moving.

Art journal

desertrat68 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:18:11 +0000

These are the art assignments in my art journal. I did all of these. Click on the gallery link to see my art.

Inspirational Person Painting

desertrat68 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:52:16 +0000

This is my painting of Vince Lombardi. He was mostly famous footballl coaching and coaching the Green Bay Packers. He was mostly inspirational to me because of his quotes. One of my favorites is “Fatigue makes cowards out of all men.”

Roller Coaster Project

desertrat68 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:32:11 +0000

Choose Your Own Adventure Book project

desertrat68 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:53:15 +0000

With this project we had to write a book. In this book the reader is able to choose “paths” to take in the book. The title of my group’s book is “Not So Normal”. The following is a link to the book http://hthnc.hightechhigh.org/~jjaskowiak/choose/

Math/Physics Musical Instrument Project

desertrat68 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:30:13 +0000

In this project we had to build a instrument that played one musical octave (eight notes). Our instrument made sound with tubes. Sounds is made by our instrument when you hit the end of the tubes with ping pong paddles. We had to use formulas to find how long the tubes had to be and what note they would play. The note would get higher or lower depending on the length of the tube. A longer tube would produce a deeper note and a shorter tube would produce a higher note. Once we built our instrument we had to perform in front of the class.

Spanish Culture Project

desertrat68 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:50:41 +0000

In this project we had to define and present what we felt was the biggest part of Hispanic/Latino culture. I thought soccer was the biggest part of Hispanic/Latino culture.