Lesson 3 I Wonder Why, I Wonder How
Possible or Impossible?
____ animation movies, amazing things are possible.
But ____ they actually possible in real life?
Let Down Your Hair, Rapunzel!
In the animation, Rapunzel must lower ____ long hair to let people in her tower.
But could human hair really hold ____ a person?
Surprisingly, yes! A single ____ can hold up 100g and an average head has about 120,000 hairs.
All those hairs could hold ____ a couple of elephants!
With her hair, ____ has the ability to hold up a person.
But she should wrap her ____ around something strong and heavy.
____ she doesn’t, she will get a very sore neck.
We Scare for Energy
In the animation, ____ scare children to get energy from their screams.
____ their city is powered by this sound!
But could we ____ produce electricity to light up a city from sound?
Yes, sound can be changed ____ electricity.
But ____ would not be helpful in our everyday activities because the amount is too small.
For example, the sound from a car horn only ____ 50mv.
____ is only 1/4400 of the average 220v of electricity in our homes.
So, we would need an unbelievable amount of screams to light up an ____ city.
Up, Up and Away!
____ house is lifted and flown by thousands of balloons in the animation.
Could that actually ____
Let’s say ____ a house weighs about 50,000kg.
A normal balloon ____ an amusement park can lift about 14g.
So we need about 3,570,000 balloons to lift ____ the house.
We also ____ to think about the weight of the balloons themselves and the strings.
____ we need to add a few more thousand balloons.
Now, the biggest challenge is pumping up ____ those balloons!