waves

You know what, the first day back wasn't as brutal as I was bracing myself for. 

The schedule for class days stayed the same, except that now we have Wednesdays off. As for today, it was my regular 4-period day. We start off with Physics. I joined the class first, as I usually do because apparently, no one likes to go in first. Everyone just piles in after the first person. I don't really mind though so that's why I'm generally the first one there. 

So as for content, we covered a whole lot. Mostly on waves and vibrations. There were 4 different types of waves we talked about, mechanical, electromagnetic, transverse, and longitudinal. They all have distinct properties that set them apart. For instance, mechanical waves need a physical medium to travel through, like water for example. We also talked about frequency, period, and velocity when it comes to these waves. The formula was f*lambda = v. Lambda is the wavelength. A wavelength is a distance there is between one crest the next one. A crest is the top point of a wave. 

This is actually a great picture. Yup, so that picture visually explains all the parts of a wave. After the explanation, we did some problems and I busted through them quite quickly with just that one formula. Wait, is that formula or simply an equation? I don't know anymore. 

Okay, and then as for Music. The guy before me didn't come AGAIN and so I got a 45-minute class instead of my usual 30 min one. He told me that my jazz piece should have more swing to it and also to focus on bringing out the right hand which is the main melody. 

There isn't much to talk about in PE. She gave us this worksheet that we're supposed to complete next class and it's about agility which is one of the 6 skill-related fitness components. Let me remember what the others were... ah yea, balance, coordination, speed, power, and reaction time. So ostensibly, we're going to go through one component each week, starting with agility. The exercise we did was dribbling a ball around a "track" that is formed by two plastic cups laying on the ground. Yeah, and then we had to time it too. I'm pretty sure we're going to do kinda the same thing next time as well so not too looking forward to that. 

Finally, in Math, we did nothing. yup. NOTHING. Okay, well the teacher was explaining some rational expression addition and subtraction of fractions, but it was so so simple. The exercises in the book were super easy too. I don't really understand how this is an Honors class. Isn't honors supposed to be harder? Or at least learning more advanced stuff? Sigh, but it's already the second semester so I just gotta stick with this until it ends. Ah, my time is up. Good night folks!