Animation

Idea: Jisu
Video: Tiff


http://www.pragmasoft.be/carnets/geo/ecluse/ecluse_simulation.html

Sleepy Vacation Thoughts

So I was on a plane going on vacation and I woke up and looked outside the window. It looked like there was a difference in the water level. If you look closely, you can kind of see a line that separates the colour of the water.
What I thought was that maybe it would have to do with the different densities of water like the example in the "Purpose/How It Works" post.
If one level of water is denser than the other, then it would be a hard to travel across due to weight limit. We could say that the dark water is denser than the lighter body of water.

Just to be clear, I'm not exactly sure where I was and why the colour is like that because I just woke up when I saw that and I thought that it would be an example to share onto our blog. 

If you can't find the different part of ze water, look below

~Tiff and Jisu

Quick Modification

We are going to make the lock on the gate pull up instead of move down because it will be harder and it is simpler to just pull the gate up.

~Tiff

Purpose/How It Works

Purpose: For boats to safely cross different bodies of water due to density

How it works: There are different densities for bodies of water. If you were to sail from the St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean, the water densities would be different. The Atlantic Ocean would have higher density than the St. Lawrence River. 

This could be because:

1) The Atlantic Ocean is denser because it is salt water and the St. Lawrence River is fresh water. It is denser due to the salt in the ocean which adds to its mass.

2) The temperature of the water could also affect its density. If the Atlantic Ocean is colder than the St. Lawrence River, than it will be denser.

They use a lock to help the boats cross different bodies of water because of the different densities. It levels less dense water level to the denser water level so the boat is able to transport across the bodies of water.

~Tiff