charles river
The tides of dirty water
The Tides
Intro
The location I chose for this project is the Charles River in Boston Massachusetts. The Charles River had been referred to as one of the dirtiest rivers in the US throughout history due to the Watertown Arsenal that had been full of gunpowder as well as other artilleries and firearms. The Charles River had also been used for the much of America’s hydropower with its dam. The Charles River had been used in the hit Boston based band, Dropkick Murphy’s song, “Dirty Water”. I chose the date of February 14 because of how Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day, and what better way to spend Valentines Day than looking at a dirty river. Also during February you can see that the river slowly begins to melt and the tides begin to increase.
1. I had seen a patter with every other high tide as well as every other low tide. I notice that the first high tide of each day has an average of about 5.38 feet while the 2nd high tide has an average of about 5 feet. The same pattern goes with the low tides in where the first low tide of the day had an average of about -.29 feet while the 2nd has and average of about -.02 feet.
2. I would say that the pattern is predictable due to the fact the pattern shown above only deviates by .1 feet at most.
3. The moon will have a significant impact on the high tide because when I look up the tides of February 24th which is on the same day as a full moon, the tides are at a distance between 9-10 feet while the low tide is almost a whole foot closer to shore than ten days before (Feb 14- Feb 17).
4. Another natural phenomena that is modeled by sin/cosine functions are earthquakes. A high amplitude means that the earthquake had a higher magnitude.
5. I would predict that due to the pattern a low tide at 11 a am will be higher than the earlier low tide. Also due to the fact that a full moon is approaching I
The Tides
Intro
The location I chose for this project is the Charles River in Boston Massachusetts. The Charles River had been referred to as one of the dirtiest rivers in the US throughout history due to the Watertown Arsenal that had been full of gunpowder as well as other artilleries and firearms. The Charles River had also been used for the much of America’s hydropower with its dam. The Charles River had been used in the hit Boston based band, Dropkick Murphy’s song, “Dirty Water”. I chose the date of February 14 because of how Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day, and what better way to spend Valentines Day than looking at a dirty river. Also during February you can see that the river slowly begins to melt and the tides begin to increase.
1. I had seen a patter with every other high tide as well as every other low tide. I notice that the first high tide of each day has an average of about 5.38 feet while the 2nd high tide has an average of about 5 feet. The same pattern goes with the low tides in where the first low tide of the day had an average of about -.29 feet while the 2nd has and average of about -.02 feet.
2. I would say that the pattern is predictable due to the fact the pattern shown above only deviates by .1 feet at most.
3. The moon will have a significant impact on the high tide because when I look up the tides of February 24th which is on the same day as a full moon, the tides are at a distance between 9-10 feet while the low tide is almost a whole foot closer to shore than ten days before (Feb 14- Feb 17).
4. Another natural phenomena that is modeled by sin/cosine functions are earthquakes. A high amplitude means that the earthquake had a higher magnitude.
5. I would predict that due to the pattern a low tide at 11 a am will be higher than the earlier low tide. Also due to the fact that a full moon is approaching I