Falco Blog Post 2

1. Bacteria growth over time (mins)
2. Everybody knows the  five second rule, while the parameters of this rule will sometimes change for foods that are sticky or foods that are extra delicious it is generally agreed upon. So a logical question to ask would be how quickly would bacteria’s population density need to grow on an object for us not to eat it, unfortunately I do not know how to answer that. Instead I will ask what is the velocity of bacterial density growth at exactly 48 mins?
3. Bacteria Population Density (absorbance units) v. Time (mins)

Time (min)	Population Density (absorbance)
0	0.022
16	0.036
32	0.060
48	0.100
64	0.169
80	0.169

4. 
5. Point (48,0.100) will be secant to (32,0.060) and (64,0.169)

(48-32)/(0.100-0.060)=16/.04=400

(64-48)/(.169-.100)=16/.069=231.884

(48-0)/(0.100-0.022)=48/.078=615.385

The ARC of these secant lines are all very different from each other, these calculations mean the ARC is not at all constant, and it means that bacteria grew faster between 32 and 48 seconds than it did between 64 and 48 seconds

7. (64,.15)

(64-48)/(.15-.10)=16/.05=320

Irc = 320 bacteria density per min

This means that at 48 min bacteria growth velocity is 320, so in terms of my experiment that means there is a gross amount of bacteria growth at 48 mins

8. I know that number in part g is the IRC at 48 mins is 320 because it is between the secants of the two closest points on the graph