Brandon Schmidt

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Personal/ Career Goals

Become an accountant at a firm or company

Possibly become a CPA

Get married, and have a family

Buy a home

Make nationals this year in Basketball

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And come watch some games

Hobbies/Activities

Playing sports
Hanging out with friends and family
Playing cards
Going on vacations
Being outdoors
Eating tasty food
Having fun
Staying busy

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Unit 1 Links

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/oct99/940942724.Sh.r.htm l - This site does a great job in explaining and distinguishing the difference between a theory and a law.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistry101/a/lawtheory.htm - This site also explains a hypothesis and gives a bit of a different explanation to the difference between a theory and a law than in my first web site.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_Christian_ideas_different_from_the_scientific_theories_about_the_origin_of_the_world - This site compares the views on theories and laws between an evolutionary viewpoint and a Christian viewpoint. Takes a look at the views on whether on the creation of the world.
http://www.basketballshootingcoach.com/basketball_theory - This site explains a basketball theory. Success comes from progressing from individual to team play.

Unit 2 links

http://www.zianet.com/rainbow/frcolor.htm This site explains the colors of the rainbow, the secondary rainbow, and on extremely sunny days the possibility of more than two rainbows. http://www.artsparx.com/seeingcolor.html How we see color. Different wavelengths create different colors that can be seen by the eye. http://science.howstuffworks.com/laser.htm Lasers are used more than we realize in everyday life. Also this site explains how lasers work. http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/colored_shadows/index.html This gives an interesting experiment to do to see how red green and blue light when mixed together in different kinds of combinations create different results

Unit 3 Links

http://www.docbrown.info/page03/3_52states.htm This site goes into detail and explains the three states of matter (gas, liquid, and solid)
http://www.kentchemistry.com/links/Matter/HeatingCurve.htm Great illustrations and graphs showing different heating and cooling curves.
http://greenfootgallery.org/scenarios/612 This site has an interesting gas molecule movement simulation.
http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/states_of_matter.htm Gas, Liquid, and Solids. But also this site goes into detail about a fourth state of matter, Plasma..

Unit 4 Links

http://www.mansfieldct.org/schools/mms/staff/hand/convcondrad.htm This site explains how heat is transferred through conduction, convection and radiation.
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/light_lessons/thermal/differ.html Here it describes the differences between heat and actual temperature.
http://science.jrank.org/pages/3265/Heat-Capacity.html This site explains heat capacity and the law of conservation of energy.
http://www.nifc.gov/preved/comm_guide/wildfire/fire_4.html This site does a great job in explaining the science of a wildfire and incorporates conduction, convection, and radiation.

Unit 5 Links

http://www.essortment.com/hobbies/howwatertowers_sbfs.htm This site explains how water towers work. Goes into detail over the importance of the height of the water tower for enough pressure to distribute the water.
http://factoidz.com/how-to-increase-your-shower-water-pressure/ This is an interesting site that explains how to increase shower water pressure.
http://weather.thefuntimesguide.com/2010/02/air_pressure.php This site explains how air pressure affects the weather. The difference between high and low pressure as it applies to the weather.
http://archive.student.bmj.com/issues/06/06/education/230.php Here it explains why and how scuba diving incidents and accidents occur. It shows what actually occurrs to the body in these incidents.

Unit 6 Links

Gravitational Potential Energy This site discusses the energy that objects have. Basketball on the moon and bouncing balls is demonstrated and explained in relationship to gravity.

Buoyancy This site does a great job in expaining what buoyancy really is. It also discusses what fields this is important in primarily keeping things afloat or to sink.

Density Here it discusses the density of Sea water. Interestingly the site shows that temperature actually has more effect on the density of the water than the salinity.
Cavendish experiment This site helps to understand the Cavendish experiment. It discusses Newton's Law of Gravity and computing gravity.

Unit 7 Links

Creationists arguements with evolutionist responses This site lists 25 arguements from the Christian creationist viewpoint.
Naturalism Here it does a great job in explaining natrualism and also the site has some interesting article links that can be checked out.
Creation vs Evolution This site compares creation and evolution in easy to understand terms without bias.
Paranormal Phenomena This site provides a library of paranormal phenomena: ghost stories, angel stories, out of body experiences, near death experiences, channeling, and past lives.