Contest Definition and 467 Threads

Lets create a pseudo team of engineers for the purpose of producing the latest advancement in Diamond Evacuated Bubbles, Our team is trying to win a pseudo X-prize, The pseudo prize consists of many millions of pseudo dollars and a lifetime pseudo contract with NASA for the production of the...

I am programming a robots movements(virtual robot not a physical, like a game) its a contest, I asked last year students that did this contest and there robot got to 4th place by a fluke, their robot did random stuff :smile:. I'm in high school grade 11. University students are also...

Well... let me offer a small contest - I called it Knowledge Horizon Contest, and you'll find out why in a couple of minutes: 1. Everyone who wishes to enter the contest has to post a single question in this thread till Friday 22 APR 0:00 GMT. The poster is recognized as an author of the...

I'm not sure if this site is Canadian or not, but in Canada, we have math contests. These are tests written by the university of Waterloo. I'm in grade 12 this year and I am writing the Euclid math contest on Tues, April 19. Anyone have any experience with this test? Any advice?

Hi everyone, i'm looking for some some practice questions for the OAPT contest...it really doesn't matter which contest it is, just some Gr. 11 contest questions, like the SIN one...thanks

I have an egg drop design contest. Here are the rules: We have to drop the egg from classroom height (about 6 feet) and from gym height (about 13-15 feet). The capsule cannot weigh more than 550 grams and cannot exceed 7"x7"x7". The egg shell and the yolk have to survive. You are...

1) What kind of triangle is ABC if for his angles we have: sin[2*(alfa)]=2sin[beta]*cos[gama] 2) If acos[alfa] + bsin[alfa]=acos[beta]+b[sin[beta] , prove that sin(alfa+beta)=2ab/(a^2+b^2)

Prove that the triangle ABC is: a) acute, if and only if tan(alfa)*tan(beta)>1 b) right, if and only if tan(alfa)*tan(beta)=1 c) obtuse, if and only if tan(alfa)*tan(beta)<1

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...