Essential Question: How do electronics enhance our lives?
Electricity enhances are lives in a positive and negative way. It helps us survive by providing power for our microwaves, ovens, fridges, and lighting. It also powers the air conditioning and heater. 80% of the things we use are powered by electricity. Transportation, emergency exits, fire alarms, and other safety equipment is powered by electricity. Sometimes, power isn't always good. It can be dangerous if fuses don't pop, which can cause deadly fires. It also has a high frequency electromagnetic wave, which increases the risk of cancer.
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Careers or jobs to this study: Musician There are many jobs that have the topic of music. Being a famous, or local musician can get you a plethora of money. You can also be a composer if music, or simply teach others how to play. You can also join an orchestra if you play a specific instrument. You can also start a band and go on tours.
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Area of research: Music I have been playing the bass for almost 2 years, and it's been quite an experience. There's a plethora of science when it comes to how the cabinets, heads, and pickups work, and this is where my area of research comes in. The electric bass or guitar must be connected to the head, or amplifier with a special cord that picks up the noise. The preamp is located in the cabinet, which produces the noise, and also controls the tone of the bass, making it punchy, or smooth and bass-y. Bass and guitar amplifiers are really simple. My area of research isn't really being studied... Rock n Roll isn't popular anymore, because today's song always consist of rap, and pop. What I know about the physics of the amplifiers is that electricity flows through the amplifiers, through the chord, and into the bass. The electricity helps project the sound.
This video features Mike Dirnt, the bass player from Green Day, talking about his new Fender basses. He is mostly explaining what they look like and the material of the bodies and neck, however he does talk about the pick ups, and he's also showing how the amplifiers make noise.
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Music can be taught in education. Music theory, is the most popular taught subject. Why notes work, why scales work, and why chords work is the basics of music theory. There are also major scales, minor scales, major chords, minor chords, I'm unsure if you need anything special in order to get into some sort of music college, however you must be educated on music theory, and the basics of notes themselves. There are 2 different colleges for music; orchestra, and normal. Orchestra has violins, flutes, clarinets, etc.. Normal have guitar, bass, drums, etc...
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I'm hoping to learn more about the electricity part to music in the future. I know you have to plug in a chord to an electric bass or guitar, but how does that chord work? What is it plugging into specifically? There are many things I want to learn about that involves music, but I want to learn how the electronics work. I also want to improve my bass playing skills by improvising, writing my own songs, and basically having fun, yet knowing the science behind it, why everything works the way it does.
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Evidence of LED's
This LED project was a test where we had to light up an LED using wires, a resistor, a button, a 9V battery, and a breadboard. The picture to the left successfully shows me lighting up the LED by pushing the button. The other is where each wire goes, and where the button and LED go.
In these photos, I had to attach a special tool that dims the LED, which also successfully worked.