Boat Problem Investigation Report

3. Analyze: What do you notice about the density of the Styrofoam pieces? The density remains the same.

2. If we used water displacement to find the volume of the gummy bear instead of the formula (l*w*h) the results would have been much more accurate. This is because the gummy bear is an irregular shaped object, meaning that it doesn't have a specific length, width, and height. Instead, with the formula, we have to measure the parts of the bear that we think will be the most accurate to the actual volume. With water displacement, there is no such problem. To find the volume with water displacement, you just subtract the original height the of water from the height of the water with the object submerged. There is no estimating with water displacement.

Doesn’t matter of what materials the boat is made of, what matter is the weight. The ability of a boat to float depends on its average density. Ships need to have air to have less density than water, so it can float. If less air is in a boat, the boat can sink.

Purpose: Weighing objects. Figuring out the density with an object by calculated volume and Archimedes’ Principle.

"The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod is the story told from the perspective of university teacher looking back on his life. The narrator relates the first memories of his life until his father's death. The story focuses on the conflicting relation between the mother and the father, and their different perspectives on how their children should lead their lives. MacLeod uses features of setting to present the tension between tradition and freedom.

The short story “The Boat” by Alistair MacLeod is narrated by a man who comes from a fishing family. His mother’s side of the family has forever lived and worked by the sea and continues this tradition. The narrator’s father always wanted to be an academic, but worked on the boat to support his family. Through this passage it is evident that the parents’ characters clash in many aspects of their lives and are in constant conflict. MacLeod demonstrates this through the use of repetition, the contrast in other unrelated ideas, and through information that is withheld.

The short story The Boat by Alistair MacLeod is narrated by a man who comes from a fishing family. His mother’s side of the family has forever lived and worked by the sea and continues this tradition. The narrator’s father always wanted to be an academic, but worked by the sea to support his family. The parents’ characters seem to clash in many aspect of their lives and this is very evident in the passage.

“The Boat” by Nam Le, is a serious of short stories that while representing a number of different themes throughout each story, the central theme regards the complicated relationship between children and their parents, with each story examining this theme in different ways. The opening and closing stories, “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”, and “The Boat”, not only develop the relationship between children and parents and how the child attempts to maintain this relationship; but also how they live their lives without their parents.

Would you sacrifice your life and happiness for someone else to give them a life of perfection? Alistair Macleod; raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, known as the protagonist and author of The Boat began to realize that his happiness isn't the only thing that matters. He told his father that he will stay by his side as long as he lived. Then he was suddenly gone. Alistair had no idea whether his father left because the sea wasn’t the right life for Alistair, or for himself. In The Boat Macleod conveys the idea that sacrificing happiness for another can ultimately lead to internal and external destruction through the use of irony, the protagonist's journey, and symbolism.

The setting of Alistair Macleod’s short story, The Boat, complements the setting of Alden Nowlan’s poem, Warren Pryor.  Each of these writing pieces contain the element of a smaller town with a tight knit community.  In the short story The Boat, our community is a Nova Scotian community whose primary industry is fishing.  This results in most of the members of the community partaking in the fishing lifestyle.  Another influential location this writing piece takes place in is inside of the house, “which was one of about fifty that marched around the horseshoe of [his] harbour,” (Macleod 263).  Most of the homes in this town are situated close to the water as it is there where most of the men work as fishermen.  Inside the house was his father's room where “magazines and books covered the bureau,” (Macleod 265).  It was in their father’s room where the children discover their love of reading and become more dedicated to their schooling.  Both the short story and the poem contain the setting of a school, which is symbolic as it is their education that allows the characters to be free of their obligations and the way of their town.  Finally, the setting takes place on the Jenny Lynn, “she was what Nova Scotians called a Cape Island boat and was designed for the small inshore fishermen,” (Macleod 262) and it is on this boat where the father and son make their final journey out to sea.  Likewise, the poem Warren Pryor takes place in another resource based community, however, this

I liked that we each had partners. We could work with them in case we needed any help. I also liked how the steps were set up. They would carefully direct us to success. The last thing I liked was how each of the students subconsciously made the project into a contest and we all started to do our best. This gave us motivation to have the best paper airplane in the class.

The suspects tried to dispose of the cooler by wrapping it in chains and sinking it in a lake. In question 3, we calculated the mass of the water displaced using the density of the lake water and the volume of the cooler if it sank 1 cm (from question 2). Using that number, which turned out to be 4.99 kg, and the weight of the cooler, chain, and body, we found out how many centimeters

Boats come in many different shapes and sizes. Though they can be fun toys, there is a lot that to consider when diving into the physics behind it. There many factors that need to be taken into consideration when building a boat, a few of the important ones are weight, rudders, the position of a rudder and the position in which a motor is placed. Each of these factors are what either make or break a boat.

I would have to say that this case could fall under the Limitation Act. Basically, the Limitation Act covers misfortunes that happen on the traversable waters of the United States to include individual injuries and damages to equipment. Traversable is a key point in this act because if the waters are not traversable then the owner is not qualified for the losses or injuries that occurred.

The boat project was an enjoyable one. This project was able to test many abilities of the average student including teamwork and preparation. It also offered insight on what exactly what was and wasn’t good for different parts of the boat, but throughout the next few paragraphs a few items will be discussed. These items will include different designs of a boat whether they are good or bad, buoyant force, specific propeller types, and efficiency, the end/test results of Steven.