The view from Valley Forge Road at Dorothy Road (near Good Shepherd Lutheran Church)
looking west, Fall 2016. You can see Mount Misery/Mount Joy in the distance. That's
in Valley Forge Park, about 4 miles away!
Television is the first
truly democratic culture -
the first culture available
to everbody and entirely
governed by what the people want.
The most terrifying thing is
what the people do want.
- Clive Barnes
(Before the era of the Internet)
WORTH A CLOSER LOOK ANSWER + HOW GRADES WILL WORK FOR MARKING PERIOD 4
Worth a Closer Look Answer
Did you figure out that it's a friction contest?
It merely shows that the Cybertruck has more friction.
Assuming that both vehicles have equivalent tires
(In other words, both sets have the same coefficient of friction),
then it just reduces to the fact that the Cybertruck is heavier.
There are other factors possibly at work here: the F-150 looks
like it only has rear-wheel drive (only the rear wheels do
the pushing), which means that it isn't
getting the full friction benefit of the entire weight of the truck -
only the proportion of the weight that is on the back tires, which is
typically less than half the weight. The Cybertruck is all-wheel
drive, so it gets the full friction benefit of the weight on every tire.
But this is not to say that the test is meaningless! When would
it be important to be able to win a friction contest?
If you were pulling a trailer.
So the Cybertruck would be better at that.
On the other hand, putting a load in the back and
hauling it would actually benefit the F-150, because the
extra weight will rest more on the back tires which are the
ones whose friction drives the truck.
I used to own a 1988 Ford Ranger, which was a small
rear-wheel drive pickup truck.
When it would snow, I would shovel snow
into the back of the truck to increase my friction (traction).
CP Grading for Marking Period 4
Everything will work as it did before with weekly grades,
but the weekly grades are based on you completing
the work. No quizzes.
All GOODs and two WOWs = A for the marking period.
If you have questions, email me!
Honors Grading for Marking Period 4
I will be giving daily grades based on the
work you complete. At the end of the
week, I will assign a grade for the week.
If you do all of the regular work for the week
and fix anything that needed fixing,
but don't do the DU problems/questions, then I will
assign a weekly grade of 85.
If you do all of the regular work for the week
and fix anything that needed fixing,
AND do the DU problems/questions correctly, then I will
assign a weekly grade of 95. DU problems can be
fixed like regular work.
To earn DU credit, DU problems/questions
MUST be done and correct by Friday 9 PM the week
they are assigned because
I will often answer them or address them
the following week.
Regular work can be done for full credit any time,
up to the end of the marking period.
How your marking period grade is calculated:
I will let Sapphire average the weekly grades. Yes,
you heard me correctly: your grade is the average of
the weekly grades.
That means if you complete the DU problems/questions
correctly in at least half the weeks, you will have
at least a 90 (assuming the other weeks are 85s).
Why am I averaging the grades when I was philosophically
opposed to it before? Because your grade now is based
solely on work completion. I eschewed averages before
because previously your grade counted performance on quizzes and
assessments. That means that every little issue could
potentially raise or lower your grade which could lead to anxiety
and potentially cause you to argue with the teacher over every little point.
Your grade
is now based only on the work you do.
You only have to do the work.
