SETH GELBERT
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Conceptual Physics Reflection
So everyone knows what a Rubik’s Cube is right? You all have seen one or tried to solve one right? Well in our Conceptual Physics class we created something similar to the Rubik’s Cube, it is called the Puzzle Cube. The first step in this project was practicing drawing like three dimensional objects. Our teacher, Mr. Bottelier, wanted us students to get some practice sketching drafts for our final piece. We spent probably a solid week and a half sketching drafts. The second step was getting like little Lego squares and creating the first draft of our cube. The dimension requirement for the cube was 3X3. Another requirement was that you had to have five pieces that you would piece together to make your cube. Each of those pieces had to have at least three blocks on it. After creating your draft and drawing it you would get it checked by Mr. Bottelier. If he accepted it you would move on to the next step which was creating that piece with wood blocks provided by the teacher. There was also a requirement to this step, each wood block had to be in the range of 0.70 or 0.74 of an inch. We were given a tool called a caliber which measured the block. You would then create those five pieces that you created with the Lego blocks into wood using wood glue. The final step to completing this project was to create the again using a program called Solid Works. The way we did this was we took the measurements from the wood and put that into Solid Works to create those five pieces. Then you were to assemble those pieces to make a cube. To me assembling was my biggest challenge because I had so much difficulty with it. That is what I spent most of my class time doing given the time we worked on it.The DRSS Quality I used was Persistence. I did this by going back and revising and check my work to make it the best I possibly could. Now I can look backs at drafts more efficiently instead of only making one copy of something. I learned that having multiple drafts betters you on your work. Overall I had a great time with this project. This made me want to go home and start to make one. I want to say thank you to Mr. Bottelier for helping me throughout this project and anybody else who did so!

