M. Schlauch's Blog about Some Things

I was able to acquire a vacuum chamber from my father's work, which was amazing since I was worried that I would have to reach out to multiple companies to see which of them would like to help out a child's science fair project. However, in order to use the vacuum chamber for the least amount of time, I decided to only test the most efficient core in the vacuum chamber, the ferrite core. After my testing in a normal environment, I concluded that there was little to no variation in the efficiency of the core over multiple trials. That is why, in my vacuum chamber testing, I decided to test the core at different velocities to see if there was a correlation between RPM and efficiency. Just looking at efficiency, the vacuum chamber made the ferrite core approximately 7 times more efficient than it had been in a normal environment. This was incredible but also somewhat predicted, since cutting out air resistance to slow down the FES leaves only the small point of contact on...

The book finished on a rather disappointing but reasonable ending, as Bryson and Katz never actually complete the Appalachian Trail. However, this makes sense because they embark on the journey in their late 40s, where some fit people in their early 20s do not get close to completing the trail. However, they made it a lot further than they were expected to, hiking 800 of the 2000 miles that the Trail encompasses. This was very inspiring, as this book teaches one of the most important lessons: never let your condition in life affect what you do. The odds were always against Bryson and Katz, as two older men that looked like they never hiked before in their life. However, this didn't stop the two, and together, through many different trials, they were able to conquer far more than what was expected of them. All in all, this book was amazing, and really taught me a lot of lessons as well as giving me a lot of knowledge on many different topics, most notably on the history of national...