When Tony Goes Over The Top

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P5_5 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

In Sony Picture’s ’Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’, a sentient machine rains down meatballsupon unsuspecting people causing havoc. We investigate, in this paper, the effect such meatballs would have have on people, and show that smaller meatballs could cause bodily harm, and larger meatballs could destroy objects as large as cars, however it is still unknown whether a meatball would be able to withstand falling through the atmosphere

P5_8 Listening to Metal

We considered whether constructing an unknown metal into a tuning fork of known dimensions and identifying its fundamental frequency is accurate enough to find what the metal is

P5_4 Decommissioning the International Space Station

The goal of this paper was to see whether it would be possible to de-orbit the International Space Station by completing a single Hohmann Transfer burn, using only the Progress module engine, reducing its orbital radius so that it experiences higher atmospheric drag. We found that 12,760 kg of fuel would be required to create a burn to achieve this, and therefore not possible with the Progress module in its current capacity

P5_6 How Many Turns Does a Coil Tattoo Machine Need?

We calculated how many turns a single solenoid of known dimensions in a coil tattoo machine would need to drive a needle at a frequency of 3000 strikes per minute at a voltage of 12 V. It was found around 18050 turns would be needed

P5_2 A Mechanical Bee Analogue: Modelling the Elastic Pad Connecting a Bees Wing to Muscle as a Spring

We aimed to test the viability of modelling the elastic pad connecting a bee's wing to driving muscles as a spring and it was found this model works

P5_3 Whats cookin' good lookin'

Using magnifying glasses to set things on fire is an age-old pastime of curious children, we investigate in this paper whether it is possible to take this act to the extreme of focusing the Sun's power to cook an adult human. It was found that it is indeed possible with a suitably large magnifying glass of radius 2.4m that is held over a person for 1 hour

P5_1 Can the UK feasibly be powered solely by one nuclear power station?

The United Kingdom consumed 300 TWh of electricity in 2018 which came from a variety of sources. We calculated the mass of nuclear fuel one nuclear power station would need to power the UK for one year, for a typical nuclear reactor and a modern reactor. For a standard reactor this gave a total mass of 850 metric tonnes of uranium, this is equivalent to 34 standard nuclear power plants. Whereas it needed 650 tonnes of uranium for a modern reactor, equivalent to 25 standard reactors. It was found that one very large nuclear reactor is not a feasible answer to the energy needs of the country due to the high costs of maintaining the reactor and buying fuel

P5_9 Harnessing a Neutron Star

This paper investigates the potential power that could be harnessed from a neutron star using Faraday’s law, and finds it to be a rate of 8.2 × 1020 W. We concluded that a rate of transfer of energy this high would be enough to injure Thor in a scene from Marvel’s ”Avengers: Infinity War”

P5_7 Baked Alaska

Alaska currently has a very cold Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, but due to global warming and a proposed increase of global temperatures of 5.4 ◦C by 2100 AD this is being threatened. We calculated if placing an insulating cube on Alaska in 2100 AD and using a refrigerator to cool it down to its 2019 AD temperatures was a viable solution to keeping Alaska cold. It was worked out it would need 1.1×1015 J of work in order to cool the interior of the cube. It was concluded the environmental damage and increased fossil fuel emissions are too great for this to be a option