07/18/2012
Today I went back to the Millikan Lab to work with Professor Whitaker again after about 3 weeks of not attending due to July 4th, and also because of some car troubles the week after. What Professor Whitaker is having me do is more independent than say, a normal class at school, but he does help me a lot with the things i have yet to figure out or don't know. What I did today was read about potentiometers and the formula for voltage division and finding out how to re-design a circuit that was previously built and somehow make it better. For homework over the week he asked me to hopefully finish the design and then talk with someone at the lab that can help me put it all together differently next Wednesday. I have to test out using resistors along with a potentiometer and a power source to equal to about .22 volts which the circuit I am redesigning needs to be. Should be an interesting task and looking forward to finishing it.