Clent Elbert V.

Elicana BSED 2 FILIPINO

Assignment no.1

1. No snowflakes are alike so how can a snowflake be completely symmetrical

within itself. But not the shape of any other snowflake?

Snowflake begin with a single droplet freezes and starts to grow. This procedure is
called crystallization. And according to an American physicist Ken Libbrench a water
droplet starts to grow by absorbing water in the air and approximately 100,000 water
vapor is needed to create a single snowflake. As each snowflake make it descent from
the sky it experience unique atmospheric condition, like humidity and temperature which
affect on how the crystal on the flake grow. All the arms of the flake goes to the same
condition and consequently crystalized the same way. No snowflake has the same
experience coming down and therefore they all look slightly different to other.
(mprnews.org)

2. Why do sunflowers and other plants abide by mathematical rules?

The pattern of seeds within a sunflower follows the Fibonacci sequence, or 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,
13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144... each number in the sequence is the sum of the previous two
numbers. In sunflowers, the spirals we see in the center are generated from this
sequence – it says that there are two series of curves winding in opposite directions,
starting at the center and stretching out to the petals, with each seed sitting at a certain
angle from the neighboring seeds to create the spiral. (popmath.uk)

And also According to PopMath: In order to optimize the filling of the seeds in the
flower's center it is necessary to choose the most irrational number there is, that is to
say, the one the least well approximated by a fraction. This number is exactly the
golden mean. The corresponding angle, the golden angle, is 137.5 degrees...This angle
has to be chosen very precisely: variations of 1/10 of a degree destroy completely the
optimization. When the angle is exactly the golden mean, and only this one, two families
of spirals one in each direction are then visible: their numbers correspond to the
numerator and denominator of one of the fractions which approximates the golden
mean : 2/3, 3/5, 5/8, 8/13, 13/21, etc."
 The spirals in the pinecone follows the
Fibonacci sequence. They grow in spirals
around the core of the cone. The pinecone
have two series of direction the other goes
clockwise and the other is counter clockwise.
The cone consist of 8 spirals on one direction
while 13 spirals on the other direction.

PINE CONE

The orange also possesses symmetry called

Radial symmetry. In which the parts of an
orange can be divided into equal pieces. And
each equal piece of a orange is also a
congruent shape.

ORANGE
The wings of the monarch butterfly is one of
the best example of bilateral symmetry. The
two parts of the wing of the butterfly mirror
each other and if we fold it in half the two part
matches each other perfectly.

MONARCH BUTTERFLY