Physics and Graduation Presents

This quarter, I have been learning about physics during makerspace time and making a graduation present for my sister. I’ve learned kinematics, 1-D and 2-D motion, Newton’s Laws, circular motion and gravity, work, conservation of momentum and energy, collisions, torque, and rotational momentum. I plan on using that later to make some cool things in the makerspace, perhaps a functioning wooden model of the solar system or maybe some sort of computer program to calculate motion. For my sister’s present(shh, don’t tell), I’ve been trying out different designs for a placard with her graduation date, major, college and memento-y stuff like that. It has proven significantly more difficult than I thought because it’s really hard finding designs that are good, and images that have a high enough resolution. I’m also going to play around with material to see if it looks better on acrylic or wood. I’m also doing it double sided–which will bring more challenges when I get to that. I’ve mostly given up on my epoxy working because all of the polishing and sanding was very difficult and never turned out as well as expected, though I might try again in the future.