Project Details

CWSF 2005 - Vancouver, British Columbia

The Attraction of Repulsion

Division:	Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Category:	Senior
Region:	Waterloo-Wellington
City:	Waterloo, ON
School:	St. Johns-Kilmarnock
Abstract:	Thompson’s Problem is the problem of distributing N identical point charges on the surface of a sphere so that total Coulomb electric energy is minimized. An original program was written in Java to find solutions to Thompson’s Problem and a number of novel methods were used to analyze these solutions.

Awards	Value
Canadian Mathematical Society Award Sponsor: Canadian Mathematical Society	$1 000.00
CAP Physics Prize Senior Sponsor: Canadian Association of Physicists	$1 000.00
CAP/TRIUMF World Year of Physics Award Sponsor: Canadian Association of Physicists	$1 200.00
UBC Science (Vancouver) Entrance Award Senior Gold Medallist - $4000 Entrance Scholarship Sponsor: The University of British Columbia (Vancouver)	$4 000.00
The University of Western Ontario Scholarship Gold Medallist - $2000 Entrance Scholarship Sponsor: University of Western Ontario	$2 000.00
Gold Medal - Physical & Mathematical Sciences Senior Sponsor: Encana Corporation	$1 500.00
Total	$10 700.00