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There were 17 submissions for this year's contest, and all are show below with their captions. Click on a photo to enlarge.
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Winner! "Put a Little Balance in Your Life" by Rachel T. Martinez
No
adhesive or pins were used to create this tower of stones, only the natural
forces of gravity and friction help maintain the tower of river rocks. Each rock
in this tower was carefully placed--its center of and gravity either directly
above that of the one below it, or gracefully interacting with other rocks to
create a mutual center.
Winner! “Through His Eyes” by Rachel T. Martinez
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Scientific Phenomena: Reflection
Explanation: The moist surface of the eye acts as a mirror, allowing the law of
reflection to go to work(Angle of incidence=angle of reflection). Since it is a
convex surface, the reflection produced is more panoramic than that eye can
actually perceive, giving an expanded view of the world.
Honorable Mention "Air Balloon" by Yanpaing S. Oo
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The concept behind it is that when the air inside the balloon becomes lighter than air when it is hotter so it float up in the air by the upward buoyant force.
"Northwestern Fjord" by Penny Sue Rosen
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The picture is in Seward, Alaska on a Glacier boat tour. The picture is of the Northwestern Fjord tour. The scientific explanation to go along with the photo is the glacier is something that geologist study because they can form rivers and create icebergs. Which in this case with this photo this glacier forms icebergs.
"Snow Capped Mountains" by Penny Sue Rosen
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The
picture is of a glacier between two mountains in the Alaskan Mountain range. The
main point that I wanted to make about the photo is the middle moraines and
ogives in the glacier.
"Drive in Volcano" by Justin Desmith
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The attached photo is an
example of heat energy. It is the "drive in" volcano in St. Lucia.
"Light Reflection and Refraction" by Justin Desmith
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The
attached photo is an example of light reflection and refraction.
"Cartoon
Squirrel
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"Tea Bag" by Ludovic Lemaitre
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The one with the tea is interesting in the sense that when I placed the bag into the water, it sank down, and the flavor diffused only at the bottom of the cup. It stayed like this during 2 hours until I got bored and thirsty haha I don't really know why it stayed at the bottom like this. I presume it might be because the molecules of the flavor were more dense than the hot water.
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"Rainbow" by Yanpaing S. Oo
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The concept behind it is that we can see a rainbow when there are water sprinkles because the white light is diffracted into a spectrum of VIBGYOR.
“Furry Physics” by Amanda Wentzel
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It shows that a dog can calculate the force, angle and speed needed to clear a jump without even thinking about it. I don’t even want to think about what cats can do.
"Wright 1903 Flyer" by Catherine Khoo
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It is the
Wright 1903 Flyer from the Air and Space Museum in DC
“Study Session”
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Well...
this is more of a science major studying her science late at night on her bed
(me). There's science everywhere... I mean I am using light to study by
and the fact that my "whiteboards" stick to my walls is only because of static
electricity.
“Fighting Gravitational Force”
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So in
this one trying their best to fight gravitational force, but obviously they
failed... so I got this picture instead.
“I haven’t failed, I’ve found
10,000 ways that don’t work.”
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This photo shows what happens
when physics students wait too long to do a lab project and then get really
involved with it. It also shows
what happens when you try to use spherical coordinates, but are not really sure
how they work. There is also an
example of light reflection in the photo.
"A canyon of dust
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In this photo you can see the
stratification of sediments due to multiple layers of debris (in this case saw
dust) collecting over time from various sources.
The different types of materials that cause each layer could easily be
identified simply by looking at the colour of the layer.
This is similar to sediment deposits on a larger scale for the earth.
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