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Schematics Of A Water Balloon Launcher Design And Reproducible Water-Balloon-Filling Procedures Used For A Middle School Summer Science Camp, Mike A. Christiansen, Boyd F. Edwards, David D. Sam
Schematics Of A Water Balloon Launcher Design And Reproducible Water-Balloon-Filling Procedures Used For A Middle School Summer Science Camp, Mike A. Christiansen, Boyd F. Edwards, David D. Sam
USU Uintah Basin Faculty Publications
We recently held a Science Summer Camp for middle school students, designed to infuse young people with increased excitement for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) subjects. Our efforts, which received nationally-syndicated news coverage, included the invention of a versatile water balloon launcher.
This document contains:
(1) detailed construction schematics and user operation guidelines for our balloon launcher;
(2) data and instructions for reproducibly filling water balloons to specific volumes and weights, within used by students during the summer camp.
How To Find Killing Vectors, Charles G. Torre
How To Find Killing Vectors, Charles G. Torre
How to... in 10 minutes or less
We show how to compute the Lie algebra of Killing vector fields of a metric in Maple using the commands KillingVectors and LieAlgebraData. A Maple worksheet and a PDF version can be found below.