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In my extended essay, I would have considered doing a less broad research task on tires my investigation on the physical mechanics led to no changes in my final conclusion. I believe that if I had to redo the extended essay I would have focused more on induction braking as it is the line of investigation with most ambiguity. this would have allowed me been able to form a more complete conclusion on the viability of induction braking and would have allowed me to further understand the technical limitations behind them. However, I would still justify the exploration of the recycling of tires as it allowed me to fully understand why tires can and should be used as a composite in house building. Although tires have great housebuilding properties, a question that I had after conducting my research was why aren’t tires a more prominent resource used in housebuilding as they are not only cheaper to acquire, there is also a large abundance of them sitting in landfills which are polluting our planet. Through this investigation, I managed to gain a vast amount of knowledge on this topic which I enjoyed more than I would have thought.

After finishing my research, I have come to understand that has already been done on improving the sustainability of tires, but even more, can still be done. I have now gained a fuller understanding of the principles behind induction brakes and how it wasn’t as viable as I had initially thought. I also had to conduct more extensive research on thermal physics to understand how compositing concrete with tire bits could help improve its insulative properties and how this could help recycle tires. An issue that I had come across was my communication, I found it difficult to communicate in a way that was clear and engaging. A solution that my supervisor came up with was to use more images to keep the reader engaged and allowed me to refer back to the image, making my writing more clear. Throughout my essay, I feel my understanding of the topic had become more complete.

Something that I have learned, by adding more pipes in parallel, the induction braking force increases, which means that the more pipes you have, the better of a brake the pipes become. Something that I am proud of is that I managed to make the general structure of my rationale and figure out what I need to talk about, also that I managed to conduct some preliminary experiments on the effect of the amount of pipes in parallel on the inductive force. What I am going to be doing next is focusing on finishing up my 1000 words and to start collecting data for my experiment.