User:Ryan1994/enes100/static

Write problem/project Goal
 the project goal is to use static electricity to make a aluminum triangle float.

My First Task
 to use online reasorses to find the instructions of how to get the aluminum to float.

Week1 Narrative
doring this week my task was to to go online and find how the lifter1 project works. this lead me to find the that the lifter1 is a way to prove the beifeild brown effect. then i went and found what the beifeild brown effect was, http://montalk.net/science/84/the-biefeld-brown-effect this website exsplains it well,  then i tryd to find how to make it float. it was easy to find the directions of how to biuld it http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lftbld.htm then i need to find what is needed to make it fly i found people useing many different ways fromlike salvaged computer monitor. these are some other links that i found while doing this. http://www.only1egg-productions.org/AltSci/Electrogravity/LifterVersion1.htm http://www.brianb.org/images/Backyard%20Science/Lifter/lifter_experiments.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCdTWdpibOM my next step is to decide which way i am going to make the lifter1 project float and create a list of neaded materials and the way that this project will be safe.

My Second Task
i need to deside on the way that the lifter1 project will float, and i need to list the safety steps. that are necessarily for the project.

Week2 Narrative
over the past week i found what i needed to allow the the lifter1 project fly i plane to wire the wire one the triangle to the power supply and then ground the aluminum. this video shows the way that i plan to make the lifter work, it is at the end of the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZy1Aqleno

this video uses a diffident power supply so i need to replace were it uses the power supply and find the equivilant on the static machine. the most important safety feature for this project is to make sure that everything is grounded with a grounding rod before it is touched after the project is used,

My Third task
my third week projecis to get the lifter one project to float.

Week3 Narrative
over the third week my goal was to get the lifter one project to float. do to the hurrican i could not finish it. i have decided upon my approch to getting this to work. i will wire the project to the eletric generator by using copper wire conected to the copper wire in the lifter one project and the positive sorce in the generator. then i will ground the lower part of the lifter one project were the alluminum is by attaching copper wire to the alluminum and the desinated ground on the static genrator. then using string i will attach the project to the ground. by tieing each corner to string then typeing the string to the table. then i test it after all of this i will use a grounding rod to ground everything to makesure everything is safe.

My Fourth task
my plane for the next week is to work in class to get the lifter one projct to float.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
How is what you did different than what you planned?

Week4 Narrative
over week four i found the reason that the lifter one project flies. the reason it flies is because of the bei field brown effect which states then when a small electrode and a large electrode are close to gather and have a high voltage flowing threw them a cloud of positively charged air molecules forms in the middle of the two electrodes which then uses the coulombs law to gather thrust which allows the project to leave the ground. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biefeld%E2%80%93Brown_effect

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Fill out the Team Form (should have already copied the form, created the team page, linked to it and started filling it out).