Before we started, I didn’t know a lot about work, but I did know about machines. I learned about simple machines before. I know about levers, pulleys, wheels and axles, screws, wedges and inclined planes. I learned a lot more about what work actually is science and how I can find it for different simple machines.

I felt that an improvement on the Inclined Plane Lab report is to have a better results analyzation. I felt that the results didn’t really meet the criterion rubric. During the results analyzation, there was scientific reasoning used, but there weren’t all correct. To improve, I would have to add more correct scientific reasoning to the results section.

I would like to study more about different simple machines in this unit because I find other simple machines interesting and I want to know more about them. Just by studying one simple machine, I could get better at knowing that specific simple machine, but then I wouldn’t really have knowledge about other simple machines. Different simple machines has different ways to calculate work, and without studying the few basic ones, I didn’t really know how to calculate or find the work of the machines.

The next unit is on energy and this unit relates to the next unit in multiple ways. Energy is being capable of doing work. When work is done from one object to another, energy is transferred. The units of energy and work are the same, which is joules (J). To calculate energy in general, the formula would include the weight or force of something measured in Newtons times the height or length of something measured in joules. When Newtons and joules multiply, the resulting unit would be in joules. Therefore, the unit of both energy and work is joules.