| Thomas Boag
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| Division: | Engineering & Computing Sciences | | Category: | Junior | | Region: | Frontenac, Lennox & Addington | | City: | Perth Road, ON | | School: | Loughborough Public School | | Abstract: | I built a wind tunnel to measure the drag of four different rocket nose cone designs and predicted which rocket would go the highest at sub-sonic speeds. Test firings of the model rockets on a frozen lake showed the Parabola design outperformed the Vee, Ogive and Blunt, in that order. |
| Awards | Value | CAP Physics Prize
Junior
Sponsor: Canadian Association of Physicists | $250.00 | The University of Western Ontario Scholarship
Silver Medallist - $1500 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: University of Western Ontario | $1 500.00 | Silver Medal - Engineering
Junior
Sponsor: Youth Science Foundation Canada | $700.00 | | Total | $2 450.00 | |
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