Blog Post #2

Hey, so I'm doing another blog post, this time on kinematics.  Kinematics is defined in a nutshell, the study of motion.  It basically talks about speed and velocity, to distance and displacement.  The picture I took outside in the Costco's parking lot, is of cars in motion, averaging the parking lot speed of about 15 mi/h.  They are using a term known as displacement which is the amount of distance covered from the starting point.  They actually traveled, from their house, a total of 0 miles.  This is because the starting point was from their house, they went to Costco's, then ended up back at their house.  Now, if we were measuring distance, the amount of miles traveled would be added and totaled up.  Of course, the distance traveled depends on their starting point, which was home.  So, to summarize, distance is the total amount of miles traveled, and displacement is the distance traveled from the starting point.

Blog Post #2

I know that this doesn't look well and the idea is kind of out-dated.  But this is my idea of a relationship.  If you think about it, ice and water are like boyfriend and girlfriend.  They will either bring the relationship up by freezing or bring it down by melting.  I realized that when an ice cube melts, it's in a relationship with the exothermic energy surrounding the water.  Causing it to freeze.  It was something I learned in chemistry.  And when the ice melts, its in a close relationship with endothermic energy, which is basically energy going in.  Energy in this case is heat.  Which makes sense because the ice is melting; there is a great amount of energy going through it.  But the concept of relationships is about working together to make single unit.  This is probably why people get into "relationships", because if the two variables are closely similar, it will make the bond, or relationship, much better.

Blog Post #1

Hello, this is Austin Chun.  This is my first attempt at a blog post and am very excited.  Some information about myself is, well, interesting in one word.  I love to run and swim, mainly for cross country and track and field.  I also have a part-time job at Leahi Swim School (LSS) as a swim instructor and a lifeguard.  This is a challenging job because not only are you responsible for guarding lives, but you are also working with children and sometimes infants.  But, it is also enjoyable to see their faces light up like the sun and to watch them grow as swimmers and as people.  Of course I am no Michael Phelps (olympic swimmer) or anything like that, but I have been swimming since I was eight and have gotten pretty well at it.  I also love to draw.  I draw mostly anime (Japanese cartooning) but sometimes I like to explore and draw realistic drawings (people mostly).  This is very fun as I get to show what I am thinking and apply it to a canvas.  But, of course, no artist is ever perfect and if I were to rate myself, I would still be at an amateur status.  On the other hand, I have been improving in my works and now I am confident enough to show it to my friends and family. 

Currently I have taken Earth science, which was the study of rocks and minerals, Biology, which was the study of our environment and the study of activity among nature, Chemistry, which was the study of how things work and I am now enrolled in physics, which deals with life and why things happen.  Science is currently the most challenging subject.  I am telling the truth.  I believe that everyone at some point will literally hate science.  But, in that way alone is the reason why I love it so much.  It is like when you complete a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and you have that great sense of pride knowing that you completed it.  That is the feeling I get when I do science.  Knowing that if I work hard, I am able to pass and maybe excel in it.  If I had to say which science course I did not like the most, it had to be Biology.  Not saying its not important, which it is, but it was one of those classes where if wouldn't click.  No piece of information every got stuck in my head.  My best course so far is Chemistry.  I don't know why, but it was fun just to be in that class.  And of course, I had one of the hardest teachers (technically there were only two, but he was still pretty tough), and most people would call him crazy or psychotic, but he made things fun.  I also loved the labs.  The best labs were when we were given some special material and had to measure it then convert it into a certain quantity.  For example, maybe we were given water and we were to change it to gas.  This year, I am looking forward to Physics.  And I am not just saying that just to get on the teachers good side, but I truly mean it.  Physics is the one class where I want to excel at because I want to become either an engineer or an architect and this class would really help.  

The math course that I'm in is college algebra/trigonometry.  Truthfully, the work is really easy and I should have been placed in a higher class, but of course I got a B on my report card and they bumped me down a level.  But, its okay, if there is one thing I learned is never take anything for granted.  This means that say I dropped out of college algebra/trigonometry and I went up to precalculus, it might be harder than what I anticipated and it would already be too late and I won't be able to drop the class.  But anyways, I feel my math level is pretty strong, meaning if you give me a problem I will most likely be able to answer it.  The great news is I am going to continue math for all four years of high school, so I will actually move up to precalculus anyways.

Something I hope to obtain in this course, is a better understanding of mass and gravity.  Yes, I know that the basic definition of gravity is what goes up, must go down, but I want to know why it exists and what causes it to interact with objects in motion.  It probably sound like a stupid subject to learn, but for me, I find that if you know just the basics, it will help with the tougher problems.  For example, I once watched this movie, "Akilah and the Bee", which was about a girl who tries to make it all the way to the national spelling bee, anyways, her coach told her that big words are just little words put together.  This could be related to basically anything, from math to electrical wiring.  Everything is tied together by an ultimately bigger force.  Anyways, that is just a theory.  I really am not expecting this class to be easy, obviously, it is Physics, but I do think it will be a great year for me to learn about how life works.

This picture abstractly represents me.  It shows of a fiddler playing in the back of an alley.  This represents me by showing that I may be by myself but I am never alone.  The music basically represents the entertainment I bring to others, even if I am by myself.  You can tell that I may sometimes be alone in my mind, yet I will make do of what I've got.