Information
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Dates
Saturday, January 28 - Sunday, January 29
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Host Institution
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Problems
Two Ball
Two balls placed in contact on a tilted groove sometimes do not roll down. Explain the phenomenon and find the conditions under which it occurs.
Mirage
Create a mirage like a road or desert mirage in a laboratory and study its parameters.
Fountain
Construct a fountain with a 1 m ‘head of water’. Optimize the other parameters of the fountain to gain the maximum jet height by varying the parameters of the tube and the properties of the liquid used.
Small Fields
Construct a device to measure magnetic fields based upon a compass needle and use your device to measure the Earth’s magnetic field.