This week in Ceramics, we fired our raku pots. The girls were in charge of picking up the pre-heated pots from our teacher Mr. Harvey, then placing them in rubbish cans where they were to be fired for a little while more, supervised by our other teacher Reid. The magnitude and direction (defined as a vector) of the girls transferring the pots varied throughout the process. First, we traveled in the east direction at a speed of about 0.9 m/s as we traveled to the spot where were would get the pot from Harvey. Then, we traveled south, but at a quicker speed, about 2.5 m/s because we were carrying the hot pot and wanted to quickly transfer the pot to the rubbish can. Then, we traveled back west at about 1.5 m/s as we found a safe place to wait for the pots to be through firing.
Assuming that each of the three vectors occurred during a period of one second, the resultant vector would have a distance of about 2.57 meters and it would be going about 76 degrees south of west. Hopefully that's correct.
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