'My Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator! That creature has stolen the space modulator!'
Physics - Presented by Intel Foundation
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent.
Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
PH053 Chaotic Fluids: An Examination of Phase Transitions in Taylor-Couette Flow Mairead Mary McCloskey, 17, Loreto College, Coleraine, Co Derry, Northern Ireland
First Award of $3,000
PH029 Is Eating Blueberry Pie Bad for You? Jennifer Anne D'Ascoli, 17, Academy of the Holy Names, Albany, New York
PH053 Chaotic Fluids: An Examination of Phase Transitions in Taylor-Couette Flow Mairead Mary McCloskey, 17, Loreto College, Coleraine, Co Derry, Northern Ireland
Second Award of $1,500
PH005 The Effect of Salinity on the Production and Duration of Antibubbles Michael J. Pizer, 14, University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
PH040 Magnetoplasmadynamics: Ionization and Magnetic Field Ray Chengchuan He, 19, Hempfield High School, Landisville, Pennsylvania
PH046 Nuclear Fusion Reactor Apparatus Craig J. Wallace, 18, Spanish Fork High School, Spanish Fork, Utah
PH054 Electron-Phonon Interactions in Carbon Nanotubes Edward Joesph Su, 18, William G. Enloe High School, Raleigh, North Carolina
Third Award of $1,000
PH024 A Siphoned Flowing Soap Film as a Model for Density-stratified Fluid Systems Jonathan Jacques Kamler, 17, Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, New York
PH026 Superconductivity in High Pressure Phases of Lithium Wei Gan, 18, Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School, Rockville, Maryland
PH028 The "Blackberry" Cluster: Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Potential Medical Applications of Giant Nanoscale Inorganic Molecules in Solution Brandon Stuart Imber, 17, Commack High School, Commack, New York
PH034 An Investigation of the Properties of the Plasma Plume Created by Laser Ablation Kevin E. Claytor, 16, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico
PH052 Is the Wind Predictable? Nolan Herman Reis, 16, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California
Fourth Award of $500
PH012 Absorption of Radioactive Isotopes Using Natural Zeolites Vanessa Anne Spini, 17, Gold Beach High School, Gold Beach, Oregon
PH018 Spectroscopy Never Sounded So Good Andrew Jared Herron, 18, Dallastown Area High School, Dallastown, Pennsylvania
PH039 Modeling the Dynamics of a Pneumatic Water Sprayer Ross Andrew Coleman, 18, Winner High School, Winner, South Dakota
PH044 IV. Measurements of Internal Electrostatic Confinement Electron Density using Microwave Interferometry Tianhui Li, 18, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
PH051 An Investigation into Automobile Aerodynamics Molly von der Heydt, 15, Falmouth Academy, Falmouth, Massachusetts
PH061 Design and Construction of an Air-cored Resonant Transformer and Quantification of Arc-induced Ozone Abram Levi Coley, 18, Big Sky High School, Missoula, Montana
PH062 A Study of DNA Adsorption Kinetics on OTS Surfaces Joseph Michael Barone, 17, West Islip High School, West Islip, New York
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Just damn.
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Oh, right. "You can find that quantum flux regulator behind the molecular pump over there..."
Anybody remember the late 70's TV series "Salvage" with Andy Griffith?
"I'm gonna go up to the moon, get all the junk they left up there, bring it back an' sell it..."
Modulator? Now that would be cool. Try moderator. Much more pedestrian, but probably more accurate.
Too poor to buy pricey deuterium gas, Craig bought a container of deuterium oxide, or heavy water, for 20 bucks...
20 bucks for a "container" of D2O? I wonder how big that container was? Sounds like a pretty good price to me.
Wallace's detector measures 36 neutrons per minute just in background radiation from space, and the device's usual output adds only four neutrons per minute.
Not to denigrate the kid's work, because it's obvious he worked hard and was creative and learned something, but is anyone else out there wondering about the counting statistics here? It appears that the increase in count rate is within the expected uncertainty just based on Poisson statistics, unless he ran a lot of tests to reduce the sizable of the uncertainty bands. That isn't clear from what is discussed, but I assume he had to have done that otherwise the judges would have questioned the results on that basis (I know I would have). Maybe he ran a very long counting interval and normalized it to cpm. But in that case drift becomes an issue (not necessarily a fatal one) with pulse counting.
First place went to a punch-card voteing machine called a vote-o-matic.
'My Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator! That creature has stolen the space modulator!'