Module 2-5: Can Batteries be Turned Into Bombs? And Mapping Wireless Signals
- Due No Due Date
- Points 10
- Submitting a text entry box
- Module 2: Overview & Instructions
- Module 2-1: The Mobile Communication System, Assignment
- Assignment 2-1: Discussion Cell Phone Base Stations
- HW 2-1: Cell System, Assignment
- Module 2-3: Waves through the Air, Assignment
- Discussion 2-3: Applications of Electromagnetic Waves
- Module 2-2: Cellular Coverage (and Guest Speaker on coverage for the Navajo Nation), Assignment
- Assignment 2-2:a Homework: Guest Speaker (Dr. Ardakarni ) Reflection
- Module 2-2 continued: Guest Speaker Cell Phones in New Guinea, Assignment
- Assignment 2-2:b Homework: Guest Speaker Reflection
- Module 2-4: Are Cell Phones Safe?, Assignment
- Assignment 2-4: Your Thoughts Are Cell Phones Safe?
- Module 2-5: Can Batteries be Turned Into Bombs? And Mapping Wireless Signals, Assignment
- Assignment 2Final :Reflection and Feedback
Mapping Wireless Signals
Today we will be hands on measuring cell and or wifi signals day using the tiny SA’s, online maps, and the debug mode on our phones.
Also, earlier this week, there were attacks on Hezbollah that made pagers explode. Also explosive was the amount of speculation and misinformation out there saying that the batteries themselves had been turned into bombs. take the opportunity to learn some science and engineering about lithium ion batteries, how they work, and sort out truth from fiction about the claim that the batteries themselves were used as bombs.
Learning Objectives
- Map wifi signals in our classroom
- what is latency vs signal strength, how are these related?
- What's inside a Li ion battery? How does it work? How do they fail, why do they burn sometimes? Could they be used as explosives? Could someone make my cell phone explode? Sort fact from fiction using science and knowledge about technology!
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