Lab Project module 02

Nil Patel
AP Environmental Science

Procedure:
1. Tape the thread to the ball and to the center of the
protractor's curve.
2. Find a location outdoors where the wind is not blocked by
trees or buildings. Hold one corner of the protractor so that the
straight edge is parallel with the ground and the sharp edge of
the curve faces into the wind.
3. When the wind blows the ball, the thread will line up with
one of the marks on the protractor. Use Table 1 to estimate wind
speed.
4. Record the wind speed several times a day for one week.

One important thing, I did the wind measurements

for two days because I figure I need to send this lab
early so.
Materials

days

DAY 1

Tape
Colored thread, 20 cm
Plastic ball (ping-pong size)
measurement on protractor

75
mark
and
80

16 km/h

wind speed

DAY 2

80
mark
and
85

9 km/h

DAY 3

55
mark

26 km/h

DAY 4

60
mark

24 km/h

DAY 5

85
mark

9 km/h

DAY 6

80
mark

13 km/h

DAY 7

65
mark

21 km/h

Protractor

Wind findings
Conclusion:
To produce electricity, the wind speed must be at least 13km/h. The wind
must also be constant. Would wind-generated electricity be practical where
you live? Explain your answer.

- Where I live the wind affects everything and

the location is valuable. Because this is done by using a
large wind turbine usually consisting of propellers; the
turbine can be connected to a generator to generate
electricity, or the wind used as mechanical power to perform
tasks such as pumping water or grinding grain. As

the wind passes the turbines it moves the blades, which spins
the shaft. It can generate electricity by looking at this numbers
of collecting data and it must work to generate. Also so I ask
myself how wind turbines make electricity. Simply stated, a wind
turbine works the opposite of a fan. Instead of using electricity
to make wind, like a fan, wind turbines use wind to make
electricity. The wind turns the blades, which spin a shaft, which
connects to a generator and makes electricity.

An example; order for a wind turbines to work it has to

generate energy from wind and natural power.

A turbine is a machine that spins around in a moving fluid (liquid

or gas) and catches some of the energy passing by. All sorts of
machines use turbines, from jet engines to hydroelectric power
plants and from diesel railroad locomotives to windmills. Even a
child's toy windmill is a simple form of turbine.
The huge rotor blades (propellers) on the front of a wind turbine
are the "turbine" part. As wind passes by, the
kinetic energy (energy of movement) it contains makes the blades
spin around (usually quite slowly). The blades have a special
curved shape so they capture as much energy from the wind as
possible

On this lab, this table helped me a lot, because of

protractor marks offers great number of wind knots or
wind speed.

some pictures I took of wind Gauge that I made.