Preview - Pnom - Particulate Nature Of Matter

Exploration 1 - Adding Sensors

Below is the sensors sandbox model you were introduced to yesterday. You can also see your research question from the previous step right below the model.

  1. Press SETUP. This gets the model ready for you to interact with it and then run. 
  2. Click LOAD MODEL button and load your model from yesterday by choosing the file you saved.
  3. Press GO/STOP/ADD ELEMENTS to run the model.
  4. Try to add sensors to your model. 

 

Note: In this step, just focus on making sense of which sensors you have, how do they work, and what you can do with them . Do not try change the sensor code yet.

 

Referenced Questions

These questions were answered in the previous steps. They are provided here for your reference.

What was your question? (You can copy from Lesson 2)

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

There are four types of detectors. What is the maximum number of detectors you can add of each type?

If you wanted every type of detector to detect the same way, what do you need to do?

If you wanted to use two different types of detectors, each of which detects differently what would you need to do?

How can you change the detector code so that it detects more than one color of particle?

What type of pattern(s) will you program your sensors to identify to help you see data more clearly (you may check more than one)?

Patterns related to stables states    
Patterns related to fluctuations over time    
Patterns related to similarities between different detectors
Patterns related to variance between different detectors    
Patterns that are similar to those we found in our peppermint data

Notes

These notes will appear on every page in this lesson so feel free to put anything here you'd like to keep track of.