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Let it snow
Mother nature is very complex. For those of us who have
been fortunate to experience a true winter, we know snow.
However, those white flakes have a true science behind them.
There is more to snow than just school cancellations and snow men.
Everyone knows the basic idea, if it gets cold enough, instead of
rain we get snow. However there is much more to snow than just
that. Advisors at scienceproject.com created the following
project to test and increase your knowledge of snow.
The mathematics
of snowflakes
Introduction:
Every snowflake has an infinite
beauty which is enhanced by knowledge that you never find another
exactly like it. Nat ure
combines her greatest skill and artistry in the production of
snowflakes and generously fashions the most beautiful specimens on a
very thin plane. Why do snow crystals form in such intricate,
symmetrical shapes? Where is the creative genius that produces these
miniature masterpieces of frozen water, quite literally out of thin
air?
Project
description:
In this project you investigate to find out the answers to questions
such as:
- What are different shapes of
snowflakes?
- How many crystals form each
snowflake?
- Is there any relation between
the shapes (sides and angles) of different snowflakes?
- What is the size of each
snowflake? What is the density of snow?
- Is there any relation between
the shape of snowflakes and weather temperature?
- These are some of the questions
that can be studied in relation to the mathematics of
snowflakes.
Details
of this project:
More details or support on this project is available for the members
of ScienceProject.com web site. The project guide available
for this project has two parts. One part has a focus to identify the
basic form of ice crystals that ultimately form each snowflake. The
other part deals with design and calculations of snowflake fractals.
Material needed for experiment may be found at home, obtained
locally or purchased online from MiniScience.com.
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