都是氣泡惹的禍
當輕敲啤酒杯時,會發覺酒杯發出之聲調隨氣泡漸漸消失而有所改變。為了解氣泡是如何影響頻率,我測試了幾種含氣泡之飲料,以探討當氣泡漸漸消失時,杯子發聲頻率之變化。實驗發現杯子內飲料之氣泡漸漸消失時,裝啤酒與可樂杯子的發聲頻率逐漸增高,然而裝沙士杯子的頻率卻逐漸降低。為解開此相互矛盾的現象,我設計了將液面上之泡沫及液面下之氣泡分開檢驗的實驗。實驗結果發現,液體中氣泡的存在會使杯子發聲頻率變高。而當液體表面受到擾動時,會降低杯子的發聲頻率。若液面上存在泡沫時,杯子的發聲頻率也會變低。這表示裝盛含氣泡飲料杯子音律之變化,須同時考量液內含泡量與液體表面之效應。此結果可以成功的解釋為何啤酒、可樂與沙士於氣泡漸漸消失時,杯子頻率會變高或變低的現象。Tapping the side of a glass of beer as the bubbles escape, one can find that the pitch will change. In order to know how the bubbles would influence the frequency, I survey the pitches of a wine glass with various drinks that would generate bubbles. As bubbles getting away from the glass, my experimental data shows that the frequencies of the tone did get higher when the glass contains beer and coke. However, I surprisingly find a different result when the same glass contains sarsaparilla. Hence I design a series of experiments to understand the possible mechanism. The data suggests that when the drinks contain bubbles in it, the frequencies of the tones will be higher. When the liquid surfaces were disturbed, the frequencies of the tones will become lower. If there were foams above the liquid surfaces, the frequencies of the tones will also be lower. This finding proposes that people needs to consider both the bubble bulk status and surface effects. The consequences of the competitions between these two effects can successfully explain how the tones are changed in the cases of beer or sarsaparilla or coke.
光基因新角色-cop8
COP8 is the second unit of COP9 signalsome. In the comparison of BLAST ,we found that\r LLPC14 cDNA and the protein sequence are quit similar to the COP8 of Arabidopsis thaliana\r Therefore, we are interested in the role that COP8 plays in the photomorphogenesis and try to find\r the length of the sequence. So far, no result is obtained about the 3’-RACE, but we’re surprised to\r find that the sequence found in 5’-RACE is shorter than what we’re know, which suggests the RNA\r length of the cDNA used in the RACE combination has decreased.\r Although the final results of the COP8 5’and 3’-RACE haven’t been achieved, it is sure the\r COP8 is highly-conserved in many species. Since the similarity between LLPC14 and the COP8 of\r Arabidopsis thaliana is as high as 90 percent, we used the COP8 of Arabidopsis thaliana to detect the\r COP8 protein in pollen.在過去種綠豆芽的經驗中,不難發現它本身因為環境的不同,而有不同型態白化\r 的現象,例如:黑暗下萌發的豆苗。但尚未深入去理解白化的原因;而在後來的種植\r 經驗上,也發現有許多令自己覺得困惑的相同處。\r 在高二的生命科學第四章中,有提到光照與黑暗生長的植株,在構造比較上有明\r 顯的不同;其中,提及植物的活性組織存在「光敏素」(phytochrome),此色素蛋白的\r 存在於光照後,會引發一連串反應,至此,也稍微了解植物的萌發反應的差別。\r 故藉由個人在中研院植物所的資優生培訓過程,便以此為前題,進一步探究植物基\r 因組COP 8 與白化現象的相關性