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Head of Ceremonies: Shelly Budinger Student Presenters: Tim Corcoran, Leslie Quist Adinyira, Ray Rutkowski, Dan Tomcavage. Also: Leah Barner - Sound Director Nicole Lavallee - Program Faculty: Anura Goonewardene, John Reid, Jim Wheeler |
Getting Ready for the show. |
Audience Images |
Ray and Tim throw an object through the air that has a center-of-mass that is off-center. The object moves in a weird way when thrown. It rotates around the off-center bullseye pattern painted on its surface. |
Ray (with help from Tim and John) how objects with an off-center center-of-mass can move up an incline. |
Leslie demonstrate Bernouli's principle. |
Leslie demonstrates turbulence with a flowing film of soap. Here he is seen with curious audience members after the show. |
Dan pulls off an old favorite - the table cloth trick. |
Tim and John demonstrate the compression strength of rolled up pieces of paper by standing on top of them!!!!! 
Tim and John demonstrate tensile strength of a single piece of paper by hanging over 70 pounds from one sheet!!! |
Tim and Ray demonstrate the percussion centers of a stick. |
Jim (with help from Anura and Leslie) demonstrates powerful use of air pressure. In the second to last image, a ping pong ball blasts through a thick piece of cardboard. In the last image, Jim shows confidence in his understanding of physics. |
Jim demonstrates the inertia of 4 eggs as he knocks a pan out from under them so they fall into 4 beakers. |
John demonstrates the principle of inertia by wearing two large masses on his head and moving around. |
Dan shows how an object attached to a pivot falls faster than an obect falling straight down. |
The ever-popular hovercraft. Even Dean Johnson gets a ride. |
Jim sits on a bed-of-nails. |
John uses air pressure to help him break a stick underneath a newspaper. |
Anura shows how a pendulum with two lengths still conserves energy. |
Tim and Ray demonstrate the odd behavior of a Hoberman Sphere. With the slightest rotational motions it quickly opens up to large sphere. |
Ray and Tim stack a bunch of boards on the edge of a table. The stack looks like it should topple onto Tim's head, but as long as the center-of-mass remains over the table the stack will not fall. |
John rests a glass on a board and swings it around his head over the audience demonstrating his confidence in his understanding of circular motion. |
Anura demonstrates how gravitational energy is converted into rotational energy with his giant yoyo. |
At the end of the show door prizes are given out by our special unbiased name selector, Christopher (held by mom, Nicole). Christopher had a hard time selecting just one person and has a hard time letting go of his selections. |