Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Excellent Responses!
Hunter, you've done a great job on this project. I don't know if you realize how much you've discovered along the way, but I suspect you have some idea. Your next step is to print a copy of the original paper and start reading it. You have some background now as to the time and level of scientific development, so I will be interested to see if you have many questions as you read. I would like for you to post any questions or comments here so I can follow your progress as you work your way through this paper.
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You evidently read this and had no questions, or you've not had time to do anything on this yet. I need to have some kind of response from you by 3/20 (this Thursday). There will be an assignment made in the next couple of days, so keep checking the blog.
I do have a few few questions, them being-
If Franklin and Volta even possibly were friends or met, why would they not have publicly worked together in this to further their research? I think they may have used eachothers research but not ever really encountered eachother.
Why does the current of the electric fluid irritate the human senses; taste, sight, hearing and feeling? I dont see how electricity could irritate taste or sight.
We talked some about this in the lab last week, especially about the nature of electricity in the body - how nerves work, etc. You do remember that, right? If not let me know.
Here are two possible directions I see your project going. You let me know if either of these is interesting to you.
1. You could investigate and report on the use of galvanic skin response (you remember that, from your earlier research) to develop lie detectors.
2. You could investigate the development of batteries from their earliest form to the present.
If neither of these is appeals to your interests, then we need to figure out something that will. You're going to be responsible (ultimately) for a paper and a powerpoint over some topic related somehow to the original paper you chose.
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