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Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to find out how travel times varied between segments on SamTrans Bus route 260 from my home in Redwood Shores to Ralston Middle School in Bel…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals It is long known that musical notes can be created by stiking a glass of water filled to various heights. Is it possible to mathematically calculate a musical note based upo…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project created and tested a method to transparently route Internet Protocol (IP) traffic from the public Internet to hosts behind a network address translator (NAT). M…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To determine if there is a correlation between money spent on middle school students and their performance in high school, using a microcosm of Tamalpais High and it's three…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective is to explain Parrondo's Paradox and provide an example and variation of it by using the C++ programming language to program coin-tossing games. Methods/Materia…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals By analyzing the recorded data of the past and developing mathematical tables, spreadsheets and graphs, I attempted to find conclusive patterns that would assist in future e…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My project's title is "Mathematics Behind Realistic Computer Graphics". I was interested in how realistic non-realtime computer graphics are made, so I made a 3D computer gr…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to discover if a mathematical pattern can be derived from the repetitive patterns in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. I hypothesize that if a pat…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals A neural network was designed and coded to identify decimal digits using Visual Basic and Excel. It was hypothesized that the neural network would have a 75% accuracy in rec…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals It has not yet been proven in mathematics if there exists an infinite number of primes of the form k^2+1, where k is a positive integer. With the exception of the integer tw…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the research project was to develop a one and two-dimensional finite element analysis of heat transfer and applications for ferrofluid. In detail, the problem…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Nearly 2,000 years ago, Hero related a formula for the area of any triangle. Brahmagupta's generalization included the areas of cyclic quadrilaterals. Bretschneider's theore…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals In this project, a new sorting algorithm was created using the language of C++. This sort would sort numbers digit by digit (by the one's space, then ten's space...) instead…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The aim of the project was to experimentally determine the pattern recognition capabilities of neural networks by presenting them with mathematically generated input of vary…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals There are three objectives in this project. The first is to derive an upperbound recursive equation for Pi using regular polygons circumscribed about a circle to approximate…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Today, people can transfer information over high-speed Internet faster than ever. Unfortunately it also means that others can steal information faster than ever. A thief can…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine how the initial angle of an idealized billiard ball path, starting from a corner of a rectangular table with integral dimensions, affects wheth…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal was to create software for an autonomous system using two cameras capable of tracking a rolling ball and determining its position through trigonometric parallax cal…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My project analyzed the performance and accuracy of different software libraries and how well they compared against each other. Methods/Materials Four different software lib…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To what extent can Optical Character Recognition accurately interpret individual word-processed characters? The objective is to determine if the characteristics of specific…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To compare the running times of sorting algorithms based on the operating system Methods/Materials Materials: Personal Computer, Distribution CD's of operating systems (Wind…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the effect that investment capital (equipment & software) expenditures, Gross Domestic Product, exports, imports, and industri…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to design a computer program that could determine the rate of diffusion between solids using the Scheme programming language. Methods/Materials Fi…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether different types of packing arrangements (hexagonal, face centered, or body centered close packing) affect the packing density of sphere…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To create a simplistic file format for storing two dimensional images that supports compression, encryption, color mapping, and is easy to interpret. Methods/Materials Mater…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine which AI computer player wins the most games. I believe the more aggressive player, Type A, will win more games. Methods/Materials I programmed…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project is designed to test the execution speed of popular computer languages such as QBASIC, Java, and C++ and determine which language will execute its code the faste…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The hypothesis of the experiment is that the ratio between the error in determining I using by inscribing polygons within and circumscribing polygons about a circle with (km…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine if there is a mapping between Nimbers (non-negative integers under Nim addition) and multidimensional objects called Simplexes, t…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project's objective is to conclude which is more economical to buy or to rent houses or apartments for different incomes. It will also determine the sufficient down pay…