I tried to record my pin wheel thing. I covered up move nose and mouth to make sure I wasn't breathing on it. Closed doors and windows. Kept my hands by my side and it rocks every so often when I put my self in that position.
Yet when I put it under a container. It doesn't move at all.
I'm now looking the skeptic way. Help me find the science reason this is.
And if anyone knows of a better webcam recording program. I would love to know.
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I tried to record my pin wheel thing. I covered up move nose and mouth to make sure I wasn't breathing on it. Closed doors and windows. Kept my hands by my side and it rocks every so often when I put my self in that position.
How light is the paper?
Yes this is important - the lighter the paper the less natural energy from air and/ormotion it will take to rock and/or move it.
Here is another test - put three or four of these up with in a 6 inches of each other - what happens? WHY?? Yes why! Use critical and analytical thinking - figure it out. Why do the four pin-wheel do what they do??
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Yet when I put it under a container. It doesn't move at all.
yes it will not - exactly and if you keep your hands and focus on it - it still will not move. Why? Unless you change the conditions to create heat and cold: Heat rises, cools and drops and rises again - this creates air flow. The lighter the paper the easier. Too much heat and/or not enough heat will have obvious cause and effects. Why??QUOTE
I'm now looking the skeptic way. Help me find the science reason this is.
-- See above. --I am actually impressed that you are starting to ask questions!
You are beginning to become analytical and learning the skills of critical thinking. (No that does not mean you put people down...) Critical thinking means something else and not to put people down.
Zeroth law of thermodynamics
If two thermodynamic systems are in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other.
When two systems are put in contact with each other, there will be a net exchange of energy between them unless they are in thermal equilibrium. While this is a fundamental concept of thermodynamics, the need to state it explicitly as a law was not perceived until the first third of the 20th century, long after the first three laws were already widely in use, hence the zero numbering. The Zeroth Law asserts that thermal equilibrium, viewed as a binary relation, is an equivalence relation.
Virusdeath0 you should concider reading about the laws of thermodynamics!
Here is a link -- Thermodynamics
If two thermodynamic systems are in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other.
When two systems are put in contact with each other, there will be a net exchange of energy between them unless they are in thermal equilibrium. While this is a fundamental concept of thermodynamics, the need to state it explicitly as a law was not perceived until the first third of the 20th century, long after the first three laws were already widely in use, hence the zero numbering. The Zeroth Law asserts that thermal equilibrium, viewed as a binary relation, is an equivalence relation.
Virusdeath0 you should concider reading about the laws of thermodynamics!
Here is a link -- Thermodynamics
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