Q: A dream diary is a place for you to record what you remember of your dreams upon waking. It should be written as soon as you wake up, because your dreams will soon be forgotten.  You might keep a small notebook, pen, or pencil right beside your bed. Or, you might try an app on your phone that uses speech-to-text technology. No matter which sort you choose, the main thing is to be able to access it as soon as you wake up. If you’re interested in seeing patterns in your dreams, try writing a title on each one for easier indexing. Consider analyzing your dreams using a dream dictionary, or by looking carefully at the imagery you see recurring in your dreams and thinking about what it might mean. This kind of diary can be fun to create if you’re thinking about the possibility of your children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren reading your diary in the future. This kind of diary includes detailed information about your everyday life.  You might want to include newspaper clippings, recipes, your own thoughts and comments on the daily headlines. Consider including both national and local events, as well as personal family information. If you’re going on a trip, keeping a daily diary of the places you’ve been, things you’ve seen, people you’ve met and other detailed information about your trip will help keep your memories alive for years following your travels. It will also help you live more fully in the moment of your trip as you consider details for including in your diary.  Take plenty of photographs, and carefully label each one by date, place, and any identifying information regarding people in the pictures so that you’ll be able to remember them later. This is a diary that’s often kept online in a blog format, but can also be kept by writing daily entries in a book. A reading diary allows you to keep track of all the books you’re reading. You might want to include a short description of each book, its author, and your own response to the book. You can make your own rating system, and rate each book according to its merits.  There are many options for keeping a reading diary online that you can explore. These can be useful if you want to quickly link to the book’s online description. You can also use a reading diary to keep a list of books you want to read, books on your wishlist, or books you started but never finished. This is a list of things that you’re grateful for, no matter how small or large. Research shows that people who keep a gratitude journal have lower stress, improvement in self-esteem, and more positive outlook on life.  Some research suggests that keeping a gratitude journal might be most effective when done on a weekly basis, rather than a daily habit. Think about imagining what your life would be like without the specific thing you’re grateful for. This is a way of making the gratitude journal more interesting. Write about the good things that happened that were unexpected or surprising. If you’re working on a long-term project, whether it’s building a house, planting a garden, or teaching your first course, consider writing about your progress in a diary. Keeping a diary about the work you do towards this project can help you chart your progress.  Keeping a diary is also a good way to write down details that help you learn about your project. For example, you might want to write about project materials you’ve tried, and the results you found. This way the information is found all in one place, and can be referred to later. A diary might be used as a place to store up sketches, ideas, random thoughts and observations. You could include clipped articles, pictures, or quotes from other people that you find inspirational.  You can include these ideas in any kind of diary, of course, but some people prefer to maintain one diary that contains nothing but their rough sketches and ideas. Quick drawings of things you see, or imagine, might be scribbled into a diary of this kind. Consider minimizing your diary entries. For example, limiting your entries to one sentence per day. Or one word. Or one picture. Try writing in haiku.  The purpose of this kind of diary is to allow you to create a quick snapshot of your mood, your location, or your thoughts about the day. One diary possibility is to write down one adjective at the end of the day which describes that day. Then write another that you hope will describe the next day.
A: Try keeping a dream diary. Create a time capsule of your daily life. Keep a travel diary. List the books you’ve read in a diary. Keep a gratitude journal. Maintain a project diary. Sketch out your ideas. Keep it short.

Q: Newton’s second law of motion states that when the forces acting on an object are unbalanced, the object will accelerate. This acceleration is dependent upon the net forces that act upon the object and the object’s mass. Using this law, acceleration can be calculated when a known force is acting on an object of known mass.  Newton’s law can be represented by the equation Fnet = m x a, where Fnet is the total force acting on the object, m is the object’s mass, and a is the acceleration of the object. When using this equation, keep your units in the metric system. Use kilograms (kg) for mass, newtons (N) for force, and meters per second squared (m/s2) for acceleration. To find the mass of an object, simply place it on a balance or scale and find its mass in grams. If you have a very large object, you may need to find a reference that can provide you with the mass. Larger objects will likely have a mass with the unit of kilograms (kg). For this equation, you will want to convert the mass into kilograms. If the mass you have is in grams simply divide that mass by 1000 to convert to kilograms. A net force is an unbalanced force. If you have two forces opposing each other and one is larger than the other, you will have a net force in the direction of the larger force. Acceleration happens when an unbalanced force acts on an object, causing it to change speeds towards the direction the force is pushing or pulling it.  For example: Let’s say you and your big brother are playing tug-of-war. You pull the rope to the left with a force of 5 newtons while your brother pulls the rope in the opposite direction with a force of 7 newtons. The net force on the rope is 2 newtons to the right, in the direction of your brother. In order to properly understand the units, know that 1 newton (N) is equal to 1 kilogram X meter/second squared (kg X m/s2). You can change this formula around to solve for acceleration by dividing both sides by the mass, so: a = F/m. To find the acceleration, simply divide the force by the mass of the object being accelerated.  Force is directly proportional to the acceleration, meaning that a greater force will lead to a greater acceleration. Mass is inversely proportional to acceleration, meaning that with a greater mass, the acceleration will decrease.
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Define Newton’s Second Law of Motion. Find the mass of your object. Calculate the net force acting on your object. Rearrange the equation F = ma to solve for acceleration.