Need a Meeting

Adhesion, we definitely need to meet this week BEFORE Friday, a quick little meeting. The science fair group needs to be decided by drawing out of a hat after school on Wednesday. The names of those of you who show up will be put in the hat and two names will be drawn. There are 7 people in our group, including me. So 2 out of 6 will be chosen tomorrow. Please show up if you're interested.
Also, I've been working on the Science Fair's research plan, but it's not that easy to do this all by myself. I definitely need a second pair of eyes checking what I write down for the plan.
So please, if you can, try thinking about several things:
1. Question/Problem being addressed
2. Hypothesis
3. Detailed Procedure/ Experimental Design
4. Bibliography
Even if you don't end up being chosen for the science fair, please continue to contribute to the group. We need to work together as a group in order to get things finished.

Thanks, and hope to see you after school Wednesday,
-Nasim

New Plan

So, the group has been thinking of possible plans of action. We've gone through the vertical idea, as in a gecko walking up a tree. However, UMass is doing that. We found it difficult to work with the supplies and money we had to carry out an experiment like that which UMass is doing. Also, the purpose of the experimentation wasn't clear. So we want to attempt a new idea: hanging from a ceiling.

The group didn't want to continue the idea from UMass (walking vertically upward) because we all believe that the WAB group was created to test our creative thinking. We want to design an experiment involving an adhesive pad stuck to a horizontal plane (like a ceiling), pulling down, and searching for the concentration of a specific adhesive that sticks best from a ceiling. Finding this concentration and knowing how much force the adhesive can handle can lead us to determining what objects this specific adhesive at these concentrations can hold up from a ceiling. Ultimately, the goal is to find a good adhesive. We'll work with one adhesive at first and possibly branch off to other types of adhesives.

The new idea definitely involves more concepts. We're not sure what types of forces are involved but that will be what I (Nasim) will be working on during my independent study. If the people from UMass have any thoughts on what we think we want to do, please say something. The plan we have is a bit different from what we started with and we're hoping that it still has a interesting purpose.

Also, (sorry about writing so much), we were wondering a bit about plate buckling and the idea of wrinkling. I spent the first 2 weeks of school reading and understanding the packets on wrinkling, and right now I don't really understand what that topic had to do with adhesion. I'll look over it again, but an explanation/clarification would be nice.

----any questions on what we're planning on doing, please ask.

-Nasim Cheraghi

IM IN FINALLY!

Hey guys I'm in! Let me know if i can be of any assistance even though I am from cavitation nation!
Also, I am your Plexi-glass guy! (if you need it)

~Anthony

Meeting

The science fair is coming up! Adhesion Legion, we really need to meet up this week. Mrs. Dickson won't be present on friday, but we can find another room to work in. So far, I've gotten the idea of 'compliance', and everything that comes with it, down. I just need to share with all of the Legion members what they mean and how they relate to our project.
I can't stay after on thursday, I have to go to Newcomer's Club. Actually, I'll try to make it.
So how about Thursday and Friday? I'll inform everyone on facebook as well.
Hope to see you guys!
-Nasim

Great job!

This looks great....it is a wonderful way to communicate. Are we meeting more than once this week?
Mrs. D.

Things are looking good

Saw the notes on compliance and such.  Great.  Let us know if you have questions or ideas to bounce off us.  I'm loving reading the posts!

I'm in

This is looking great!~ Just a few notes on compliance after reading your post---make sure that you realize that two different materials can have the same compliance under certain conditions.  First, compliance is a product of both materials properties and geometry.  So, two materials that have different materials properties could have the same compliance if their geometries are different.  Second, the materials properties that are most closely related to compliance for an isotropic material are the elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio.  These properties are not necessarily unique to a given material.  In other words, two materials of different compositions may have the same elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio.

I'm in

Hey I'm in, even though I'm a cavitator ;)