Something Skiing related for a science fair project

PeteyG

PeteyG

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I want my science fair project to be fun, and so ill have an excuse to go up and ski. anyone have ideas or has done anything ski related? u hafta like test something out and have a hypothesis and record data and all. i figured why not just ask NS for ideas!! thx

(oh, and i was gonna put this in the non ski gabber but since its skiing related, i put it in this)
 
you should either make different mixtures of wax and try them out, or see if like skiers weight actually makes you go faster or not. just two ideas, but the possibilties are endless.
 
whatabout putting 20 pound weights on the front and back of ur skis and do something with that.
 
oooo yea that would be good. id think the lighter skis have more pop. good one^^ i like the cats one too i should. or try my dog
 
put baking soda and vinegar in a volcano and then make a skier person that skis down once the explosion hits him. itll look like hes skiing down an avalanche.
 
I had to do science fair projects for the last two years, and the problem with skiing projects is that there are so many variables (snow condition, weather, riders) but do a project relating to avalanches and then you get to go up skiing and play in the snow.
 
ooo yea. i skied a mini avalanche on my hill the other day. the face slipped out under me it was minor tho.
 
kinda like what someone up top said.

put like a 15 and a 40 lb weight on each ski and see the speed of each ski down a slope. this can include a whole bunch of physics related things ans should be easy without ruining any pairs of skis with mad scientist shit
 
in 5th grade i did the coolest experiment ever

i tested the difference between bike helmets and ski helmets by putting a rock that weighed a certain amount that i dont remember and strapping into the helmet then dropping it off of 10 feet

it was dope but those fuckers didnt even place me

they just dont get me
 
whatabout if i got some skis that were center mounted, and put like 20 lb weights on all four tips and see if it makes the balance easier or harder. put like a noob skier on em, a mediocre skier, and a goood skier on it and get data from there
 
i did a project on which ski wax is the best. i didnt do any experiments, i bullshitted my whole project. i said that one of my experiments involved making a contraption and shooting a hockey puck across the bottom of a ski and seeing which wax would make it go the furthest. i did this freshman year, killed it of course
 
Get like a 10 ft cliff or something, measure it, and get a certain speed and calculate where u would land
 
this doesnt involve skiing but go to a ski shop and find the foce needed to fall out of skis at different dins and graph the relation. Not really fun but prolly what scientist would want

 
^^^^^ funny. thats a good idea i like the DIN testing. maybe i could design a new binding system???? thx
 
dude do not go with the weight's on skis test. Something will go increadable wrong and then all a sudden your doing 15-life for killing someone. The din test isnt a bad idea and the math behind it is rather simple (weight+height+ski boot sole length+ skier ability= din setting) and all shops have a nice big chart that you could copy as a reference materal. As for designing a new binding thats really hard, it takes alot of binding know how and alot of time and money. This is a science project not a research project with backing from a major ski company. Go with what you will get the best marks on, which might mean you cant do something ski related. I know it sucks but its better in the long run.
 
you shuld test the speed you need to clear a gap, then relate that to the conditions, and ski condition.

use like a rental ski, old ski, your ski.

go on a sunny day, and a cloudy day, night, snowy day.

the speed might be hard to measure tho. unless you have a radar gun.

 
If you have a camera, tripod, and logger pro software, you could easily do the 'do skis slide better on lexan or steel' question that skipig proposed, and you could throw in how well they slide on snow as a control. Just talk about coefficients of friction and if there are different accelerations that you need to worry about in each situation and you're set.
 
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Pick a different topic. Just because you like skiing doesn't mean it'll be an easy and fun project
 
have to have 5 ideas written out by tomorrow, 2 of which have to be about something "interesting to me"..probably going to do one of the other 3.
 
A couple years ago i did my science fair project on which surface was best for a summer setup. I tested astro turf, carpet, and plastic each dry, wet, and wet w/ soap. It actually was pretty interesting and found some useful information from it. Got like a 94 too so I was happy.
 
Idk how good u r but u could do like torque for bigger spins and how loading for spins affects the rotation and the forces allowing u to do corks rode as and weirder flips.
 
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