Contest Definition and 459 Threads

sin^8(x) + cos^8(x) = 97 / 128

I'm a gr 11 physics student at Ashbury College (Ottawa, Canada) and our class (in multiple teams) has been entered in a roller coaster contest, held by Wonderland. (A theme park in Ontario, Canada). My friends and I are determined to win this contest, and I am sure that the ideas of those in...

hi, here is several contest problems from my school's physics team.. i just joined, but it's for grade 12 ppl, I'm only in grade 11, so I'm trying to find out what i need to learn in order to do these questions.. just put some general topics, such as "simple machines.." but if you want to be...

2 thou dollars! HELP HOW TO MOVE a truck i need on help on how to move a truck of 25-30 tons by just human force. its a competition and the scores are based on a balance of time, people used (the less the better) and creativity of the system. there are 3 trucks and we have to move each 10...

Has anyone here participated in this prestigious competition? I'd like to enter it but they haven't updated the site for next round's competition! Anyways, what are good topics for the essay? I'd like to do Astronomy (seeing that I don't know any specialized knowledge in any field but...

This is a question from a math contest I did a little while back. 3 parts: a. There are 3 different colours of balls: red, green, and yellow. Suppose you have 4 green balls, 5 red balls and 6 yellow balls. You are to constantly remove 1 ball from any 2 colours and than add 1 to the third...

So I saw that Microsoft is offering $100,000 for a killer app for the TabletPC. http://www.ircspy.com/default.asp#Microsoft%20PC%20Developer%20Contest What do you guys think of the TabletPC? I personally can't see much of a use for it in my own thing. I type tons faster than I could...

This message is meant to start a new format of the postings on sci.physics.strings. Everyone is invited to answer the question "What was the most interesting paper on hep-th, hep-ph, or gr-qc today?" My answer for the night of April 4th is the paper by Pioline and Waldron The Automorphic...

Here is a speech I composed for this years Veterans of Foreign Wars voice of democracy contest. The theme is "My commitment to America's future." Ofcourse it is a little soft, as speech's to middle-late age patriots should be made, but I feel that all of my points are valid. Anyways, give...