Gas

Today in class we learned about the properties of gas and played a game were we add gas and take it away, I really liked it. The measures used for gas are pressure, temperature, force and volume. Volume, temperature and pressure are related to gas because volume is how much pressure the gas will have, temperate affects at what speed the gas partials move, and pressure effects how much space the gas has to move and if the space is little it can explode. This was really fun to learn about but the games was the funnest.

Chess Champion vs. Terminator Robot Round One!

Chess playing computer aren’t a new idea. Holy Grail of programs was kipping track of the entire thing about chess ever since computers were invented. Well none of the chess players were able to sit across the robot and start playing chess, until now introducing the chess terminator. The chess terminator plays and acts like a real human, well almost. Chess terminator is a robotic arm with enough dexterity not only the chess pieces but also to press the chess timer when it goes on. It was recently tested against the world champion chess player Vladimir Karmnik which lasted 3 hours. It appears to be seeing all the players moves but the chess pieces are equipped with sensors so the terminator know where the player move it and plan a counter move. The terminator is so energy efficient that it can play up to 3 hours. At 2:45 hours in to the games karmnik called it a draw but the robot didn’t realize that so he snatched karmniks arm. The company plans to make updated version, luckily the new version will know when the game ended.I think this is really interesting, this can improve the making of robots but for now its not really useful.

Site:http://www.dogonews.com/2010/11/28/chess-champion-vs-terminator-robot-round-one
By Meera Dolasia on 11/28/2010