The Climograph

I checked with Ms. Zhang today, some parts of my draft were wrong. So now I've done it again and am posting it. It was not actually that hard to put the y-axis of the temperature on the right hand side - I just made two copies of the graph, then cropped one so that only the scale remained and then grouped the scale with the other graph (which, of course, has to be cropped so that the original scale is not showing). Although it sounds real easy, it took a lot of adjusting and other stuff. And the temperature graph is less clear than the rainfall one (only slightly), maybe because I screen shot it too many times (it's real useful to put together two images that you can't otherwise put together). But the exercise is really meant to test our uploading skills so I thought it's alright (plus it's only a little unclear).

And the image can be enlarged by clicking on it.

The climograph DRAFT

Okay, just making it very clear that this is just a bit of extras, not for marking or anything!! So if anything is wrong, don't blame me. ^_^ It's just that I read Ms. Zhang's blog and she talked about a climate graph that we need to do. Well, our class missed out on that lesson, I think. But I also think that it's best to catch up with everyone. And I again specify that this one is just my version of how to do it, not the official or accepted way. And Ms. Zhang if you happen to see this post, don't mark it please!!! Okay, here it goes.

I got the glass!

Back again after the long and lazy holiday! And although I emailed the glass cutters on like the Tuesday of the first week, none of them replied! Probably because my order was too small to be a welcomed customer... So my genius Mom (although I rarely admit it to her face) had the idea of collecting scrap glasses from factories.

Thus I surfed the yellowpages again and spent the whole of Friday morning going to the addresses I recorded. But none of them had any ready scraps to give away. Then again, it was my Mom who drove us to a glass cutting shop where she had once shopped for the car side mirror. There they recommended me to Hurlstone Park Glass & Glazing, where they gave me five pieces of clear, uncoated, 3mm thick standard glass for free! Thanks a million guys! They are now stored safely away in my wardrobe to avoid the accidental discovery by my baby sister.

So now I have to wait until May 12th for my Mom's friend to come back from China with my UV meter. And the experiment can finally commence after all this talk (there is going to be more, of course).

Experiment finally underway - just starting though

With the approval from Ms. Zhang, and after three lazy holiday days, I am finally starting my experiment!! I just sent emails to two of the local glass cutters, so that I can know if they can give a set of glass cut to different thicknesses. My Mom's friend leaves for China today, she comes back in about Week 2 of next term and will bring with her my UV meter. If I have that, the experiment would be done in no time!! But to be on the safe side, when I get the glass shields I'll start experimenting to paper testers first. Then later I can add it in as a repetition of experiment to make the result more accurate.

And I have to hand in the experiment plan in Week 4 next term; I don't even know how to do it yet! I suppose there is a lot still to learn...

And it's still nine forty in the morning!! Haha, I love it when we end daylight saving, it make me feel like I've cheated time. Time is so interesting, I would have done something with it for SRP if I'm smarter, more knowledgeable and have more fundings.