March+17,+2008

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Today I updated my logbook from last week.
 * March 16, 2008**

**Happy St. Paddy's day!** Today in class I created and updated my logbook for this week. We then had a class meeting to reconvene and discuss the masterclass. We are supposed to analyze the data from the class and identify and post four specific events that we found. We also have to begin work on a LIGO project, where we will be mapping a series of earthquakes. Our meeting took the remainder of our class today.
 * March 17, 2008**

*gasp* We can color our logbooks!!!! ** Today in class, I worked on our assignment regarding the particle physics masterclass on Friday. I got about halfway done with the identification of the different types of decay. My computer wouldn't allow me to log on to the wikispace, however, so I couldn't simply put my work up on the website.
 * March 18, 2008

Tonight I worked on the masterclass assignment again, and I finished the identifications of the z-decays. I wrote up my brief descriptions of why and how I chose each graph as well. I e-mailed those off to DL, because I don't know how to transform them so that they appear on the wikispace. (Although I have been in this computer-y science class all year, I still am not as computer/technology savvy as I probably should be...opps!) I have not attempted the questions yet, as I don't know what DL means by momentum conservation and some of the other questions. I will have to look these up in greater detail when I have more time. I also updated my logbook for today.

Today I had to go to the guidance office, so I missed the majority of class. When I got back I had to take a post-test from the particle physics masterclass. After that DL had a conversation with us about the upcoming LIGO project. I don't really understand what we are supposed to be doing for that, because I don't know very much about this project. I do understand that we have each been assigned a specific month and year that we have to find earthquakes in and then plot them on a map. How exactly it is that we are going about doing this, I'm not quite sure. That will come later, I hope.
 * March 19, 2008**

**Tyler is here today!!!!** Today Tyler came a-visiting to our science research class and it pretty much made my day! I also updated my logbook today, which was rather exciting.
 * March 20, 2008**

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