A1_10 As much use as a chocolate teapot

This paper tackles the age old insult of ’You’re as much use as a chocolate teapot!’, showing that a chocolate teapot is in fact useful and can boil water when taken to an altitude of 50,000-55,000 feet. This is found by using the Clausius-Clapeyron method and atmospheric physics

A1_7 No Strings Attached

This paper will discuss the possibility of using electromagnetic phenomena to levitate the author of this paper by inducing a safe and non-lethal current through her. It is found that if the current is at a non-lethal level, then the magnetic field required for levitation is 1670 T and if the current is safe, then the magnetic field needed is 3.33×108 T. Both of these magnetic fields are far larger than those available on Earth with current technology. However, by investigating magnetic levitation using a superconductor, the magnetic field strength required is minimised to 0.0457 T

A1_1 Making a house go ‘Up’!

This paper will find that the number of helium balloons required to lift Carl’s house is around 456, 000 by using displacement and Archimedes’ Principle, therefore requiring over 20 times the amount of helium in Earth’s atmosphere. Continuing from this, the suggestion of using 423, 000 hydrogen balloons is made, as the synthesis of hydrogen via electrolysis of water could provide the 48,000 m3 of the gas

A1_2 Boxing Trees

This paper looks into how a professional boxer could punch a tree down in the style of the videogame Minecraft, calculating forces required to do so and comparing them against the main characterfrom the game, Steve. Data from a range of average professional boxers gives a punch forceof 3450 N and this has been used to determine that it takes 826,000 punches to fell an EnglishOak Tree, compared to Steves punch force of 1.1 GN. The JANKA hardness test has been usedto find the force and volume per punch removed from the tree and how many punches this wouldtake. Overall, it is concluded that a professional boxer would become exhausted before removinga 1m high section of English Oak

A1_5 Let’s Disko para-para-paradise

During this paper, the idea popularised by Coldplay’s recent sustainable concerts is explored to be utilised in the O2 Academy during Let’s Disko. By using the conservation of energy and power equations, it is found that by fitting the venue with kinetic dance floors, it would take 11 Let’s Disko nights to power the Physics Department for one day. However, if all of the energy exerted by 1500 club goers was converted into electricity, then only half of a Let’s Disko night would be required

A1_9 A Relativistic Chicken Nugget

This paper looks into using highly relativistic velocities to store food for longer than its used bydate on Earth. Based on the calculations made using Einstein’s special relativity, we found thatstoring a chicken nugget at higher and higher velocities increasingly raised the time before which it was considered inedible. However, this method of food storage is impractical in reality

A1_6 The Planet Phaeton

Whilst the main theory of the asteroid belt’s origin is left over remnants from when the protoplan- etary disc formed our Solar System, on theory is a destroyed planet: Phaeton. This paper aims to explore the characteristics of such a planet forming from the asteroids in the main belt. It is found to have a density of 2188.8 kg/m3, a radius of 6.4 × 105 m, orbital period of 1620.2 days, and an eccentricity of 0.2

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