The Notre Dame Balsa Bridge Building Contest is held annually for students who are in Physics 11 and Physics 12. Students who participate in the Balsa Bridge Building Contest have to abide by certain rules, here are a couple, the bridge must consist of rectangular balsa stock and glue and the total mass of the bridge may not exceed the weight of 100.0 g. The record currently is held by Phyiscs 12 student Matt Sullivan with the weight of 209.4 kg. Sponsors for the Balsa Bridge Building Contest can be viewed here.
Here is the site for the contest if you are interested
http://www.balsabridge.com/
Here are pictures from 2007 of the contest
http://www.myndrs.com/bridge07/index.html
Here is an interesting link from the additional links
http://www.jellesen.dk/webcrea/places/paris/parisbridge.htm
Vancouver is a
city of many interesting bridges, here is my favourite:Lion's Gate Bridge
During sometime in December, 2007 my parnter and I experimented with a Compaq DeskPro spare computer that Mr. Vogel had assigned to us. We were able to disasseble and reassemble the computer with the appropriate tool set designed to take apart computers that Mr. Vogel had gave us. While we were disassembling the computer, we had to make sure that each screw and bolt were put into a plastic tube so we would not lose the pieces and remember were those screws and bolts go when we were to reassemble the computer. We had taken pictures with our group name with specific pieces from the computer for our summaries and blog. This computer disassembly project was to test our knowledge of where everything goes. We then had to test our computer after reassembling it together to see if it would work. 