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ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The high fuel consumption rates of heavy combination trucks are unsustainable and damaging to the environment. When travelling at the recommended speed on interstate highways, most of a truc…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
This study explores the dynamics of the restricted three-body problem within the field of celestial mechanics by utilizing Taylor integration via programming in the Julia language. This exte…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Sound waves are vibrations that travel through a medium and are characterized by frequency (pitch) and amplitude (volume). Humans can typically hear between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz. A speaker is…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The aerodynamic efficiency of a rocket is significantly influenced by the geometry of its nose cone. The shape of the nose cone directly affects drag, a resistive force that opposes motion a…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The size of the powder grains significantly affects the accuracy and speed of a .44 Magnum cartridge. Finer powders burn more evenly and quickly, resulting in higher muzzle velocity and fast…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Previously, the Hadamard Random Walk was shown as a viable way for representing the maximum-likelihood estimate of the semantic fluency task, an important metric for assessing the semantic m…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Exoplanets orbiting close to their host stars receive high-energy stellar radiation that causes their atmospheres to escape. Understanding atmospheric escape on exoplanets is important to un…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The aim of this project is to discover a new extrasolar system and characterize its properties for the first time. For this purpose, I searched for periodic transit events in the light curve…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
In this study, we investigate the formation and characteristics of ship wakes. The longstanding explanation of a constant wake angle, independent of any ship parameters, has been questioned…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
My research interest has expanded from simple harmonic oscillations to include various forms of damped oscillatory systems. Just as the oscillation of a building during an earthquake or a sw…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
With the leading causes of death in America, heart disease and cancer, requiring the use of medical radioisotopes for diagnostic and treatment purposes, and a limited amount of production si…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
NASA aims to send humans to Mars by the 2030s-2040s. A leading scientific goal will be the search for signs of indigenous life, past or present, which if found, would have major implications…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Atmospheric transmission spectroscopy - a method to detect molecular signals in a planet’s atmosphere - could help humankind explore how the universe has evolved to support life on exoplanet…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Recent discoveries like GJ 9827 d's water-rich atmosphere have brought to light an understudied class of exoplanets—water worlds. The discovery of water in this exoplanet atmosphere simultan…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The extreme nature and strong gravity of black holes make them a great laboratory for testing our fundamental theories of the universe. We can not see black holes because their gravity is so…