Past Event
Saturday, July 13, 2019, 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Heat Experiments on the International Space Station
2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego, 92108
Cost: Free
In this workshop, students will build and program experiments to see how microgravity (the weak gravity on orbiting spacecrafts) affects three types of heat transfer - radiation, convection and conduction. Students will build the hardware for each experiment using heating bulbs, resistors and temperature sensors. They will write code for their experiment configuration in the Arduino environment and C programming language. Finally, students will upload their code to the International Space Station and analyze the resulting data to see how microgravity affects the different types of heat transfer. Registration is required. Please go to sandiego.librarymarket.com to register.