College of William & Mary awarded 2016 Marsh W. White Outreach Award
College of William & Mary awarded 2016 Marsh W. White Outreach Award
Zone and Chapter: William & Mary
Project
Project Name: Demos in the Sun: The Oobleck Experience
Project Leaders: Brandon Buncher, Jackson Olsen, Scott Mundy, Stephanie Wang
Chapter Advisors: Irina Novikova and Seth Aubin
Project Description: Demos in the Sun is a yearly event in which SPS performs outdoor physics demonstrations for the general college community. In other outreach events, we have featured an extremely popular demonstration in which students run across a pool of oobleck, a non-Newtonian fluid made of cornstarch and water; however, we have found the pool to be too small. We would like to create a larger pool for use in this demonstration, both at Demos in the Sun and at other outreach events.
Project Media:
Project Proposal (.pdf, 537 kb) Final Report (.pdf, 466 kb)