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Charles Chung - Week 4

Behind the scenes of the AMNH. This week, I got through digitizing all the trials from 17 to 71 on the shoulders and lumbar for three important frames. In that digitizing, I calibrated two more trials, which took up to Wednesday to finish. I calibrated only three frames for the exact frame of tuck, land and settle to be extracted for other analysis. Wednesday afternoon, I was able to graph boxplots with the new data taken from digitizing to compare Ftot (total impact force) with velocities (distance between xyz points divided by the time in frames – 600 frames per second). On Thursday, Dr. Swartz, David, Melissa (an undergrad) and I went to New York City to visit the American Museum of Natural History. We went to loan for good bat specimens for future experiments. I had a great time even though I had been to the museum numerous times because we went to the secret collections area above the museum itself. I didn’t take too many photos as there were strict social media rul...