A3_6 Pandora’s Floating Mountains: Rotational Momentum

This report follows a previous article [1], which looked into the physics of how to cause a mountain to float as depicted in the James Cameron movie “Avatar”. This article seeks to prove this is possible through the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of a planet. It was discovered that the necessary period of rotation, if that planet were Earth, was 13.4 minutes

A3_3 Pandoras Floating mountains

The mountains in the film Avatar are shown to naturally float in the air unaided by mechanical flight, this paper discuses whether this phenomenon could be created by the mountains containing superconducting materials and floating on the planets earth like magnetic field. The results show that a much larger field would be needed to float any material of a substantial size so the effect is not caused by this method

A3_4 Jumping Into Orbit

The possibility of something (or someone) jumping from a moon or planet, directly into orbital motion, using only the initial thrust from the jump, is investigated. A physical model is created using IDL to plot paths of motion from a jump in order to do so. It was found that it is impossible to complete a full orbit of any body in space without landing or escaping gravitational pull

A3_2 Sucking the sea dry

This paper discusses the possibility of removing water from the earth into space using only capillary action. The paper finds that a capillary of radius 2.332x10^-10 would be required meaning that though theoretically possible not realistically plausible to create