Chemicals - Matter (Can Experiment)

This week in Chemical, we are learning about matter.

Heated Can and Coldwater Experiment

We have conducted an experiment using Cans with hot water and buckets with cold water to see what would happen when you put a heated can in cold water.

We started by boiling the Can with hot water and waiting for lots of steam to come out of the top, we then put the Can with boiling water in the cold water and it immediately crushed the Can. 

How did this happen?

When we heated the water in the can, it turned into steam. When you put the can upside down in cold water, the steam condenses and the Can fill with hot gas, contracts because of the changes in pressure and temperature. 

Chemicals - Matter

This week in Chemicals, we are learning about Matter and Particle Theory. We have learnt lots of thing about Matter but what is Particle Theory?

Particle Theory

Particle Theory is about how particles in things such as solid, liquid and gas move and interact with each other. All matter is made out of particles, whether if its a solid, liquid or gas and all particles in a pure substance are the same. Ther is a space between all particles and the more solid an object is, the tighter the space between the particles are. All particles are always moving and liquids and gases move more freely than solids since solid particles can only vibrate instead of moving around freely on its own. There are attractive forces between particles and solids have the most attractive force because it holds all the particles together. Temperature affects the speed at which particles move, the more kinetic energy and heat are made the more it will affect the speed of which the particles move and the more cold and freezing the particles are, the more it slows down the kinetic energy, therefore an object solidifies.

Diffusion

Diffusion is the movement of particles from high concentration to low concentration. An example of Diffusion is when someone sprays perfume on themselves, the people near that person will smell the perfume first and other people further from the person will smell it last.

Experiment

We have used potassium permanganate to see if particles move slower or faster in cold or warm water.

I have noticed that particles move slower in cold water and particles move quicker in warm water.

Visual Arts - Photomontage

In the past few weeks in Visual Arts, we have been doing Photomatages that are inspired by Hannah Höch's work. its been fun experimenting with images and combining unusual pictures together to create a piece of art and while making these kinds of art, I realize that art doesn't need to be perfect and clean, it can be abstract and quite messy but still have a deep meaning behind it, even though the meaning that is portrayed by the artist may not be visible in the work of art, the artist might have included it in their own unique way and that's what makes an artwork original.

Here are some of my own artwork/photomontages that were inspired by Hannah Höch's photomontages.

This is an artwork that I called "Hanahaki decease" which means unrequited or one-sided love. When a person experiences one-sided love, he/she will start caughing up flowers but this is only a fictional decease so its nothing to worry about. My art basically represents all the people who have experienced unrequited love and have been badly hurt because of it. This is the only one of my art pieces that actually have a meaningand is one of my favourites.

This artwork doesn't really have a meaning because its the first one that I made. I created this using vintage illustrations and just combining unusual images to create this weird but abstract piece.

I like to call this one "Pine-Melon". It wasn't really an original idea because I saw an example of it before but I did use different fruits which as you can see are a watermelon and a pineapple. I combined this tow images and kind of edited things to fit in the photo. this piece had no meaning to it and I just thought it was funny.

 This is an artwork that also has no meaning but it did represent a bit of nature. While making this art piece I had to edit little bits and pieces to fit one image but everything look like they were supposed to be in one photo and it looked kind of clean which wasn't my gaol since Hannah Höch's work was abstract but still represents a meaning. This was still one of my better works of art because I made something that I can call my original design.

I learn a lot about Hannah Höch and her work and had lots of fun while doing it. I learnt really helpful thing about art which helped me create my own original work. This is the first I created photomontages and I feel proud of what I had done so far but I still want to improve, not just on photomontage but other art techniques and mediums that can help me create more of my own original work.