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    10/22

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    1. What you did this week: successes, failures, lessons learned
    This week was really focused on choosing our personal projects and getting to know more about it. It was a tough decision for me between doing oceanography and electromagnetic radiation research but in the end I chose electromagnetic radiation since it seemed more personal and unique to me. I'm hoping to focus on studying about the negative effects that it has in our bodies by testing some things we use daily, like our phones, computers, smart watches, microwaves, etc. And how if there is a way to decrease the amount of electromagnetic radiation in these products. To begin my research I got to play around with a oscilloscope which measures the radiation electromagnetic waves, when you hook that up to a coil you can see measure the waves by putting it near something. I got to test it out on a few devices.

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    I first tested my phone, which had quite a bit of waves show up but the waves were pretty steady.
    (I don't have a picture since I needed my phone), next I tested out the Mac mini and observed very little movement and pretty steady overall,

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    Then I tested my Apple Watch, this had a lot of unsteady movement and spikes, the graph went crazy and all over the place
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    I then tested my computer, which by far had the most movement, the waves were going all over the place but had a pattern so they were steady overall
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    Lastly I tested out my AirPods but they had little to no movement
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    Unfortunately I didn't get to test out a microwave, but I definitely want to in the future.
    2. What you plan to do next week: what, where, with whom
    Next week I plan to do research on radiation in other places like Sweden and Russia and play a little bit more with the oscilloscope and learn more about it. I want to be able to actually measure the radiation with a number and learn more about electromagnetic radiation waves.
    3. What you need to do this: from me, from others
    I don't really need anything except the oscilloscope and my computer for the research. I might need Dr.Bill to answer some questions, but apart from that I'm all set!