Results

The winner of the 2007 tournament was Woodberry Forest School. The second place winner was Rye Country Day School. The tournament was hosted at North Carolina School of Science and Math.

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.