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Past Events Spring 2006

 

The students won the soccer match, but the professor beat the students in chess.

Integral Bee April 2006 Winners:

1st
 2cnd
3rd		 Abel George
Stephen Istivan
Matt Peragine
 
 Text from NJIT Newsroom:
Students and faculty in NJIT’s Department of Mathematical Sciences participated in the second annual Integral Bee hosted by the NJIT Math Club. The top three winners were: Abel George, a junior majoring in electrical engineering, first place; Stephen Istivan, a junior majoring in chemical engineering, second place; and Matt Peragine, a freshman majoring in math, third place.

Thanks to Dr. Goodman for running the event, the NJIT Bookstore (and Diane Pellegrino) for donating some prizes, all the professors who submitted integrals and everyone who took pictures.

Click here for more pictures.


 Our advisor Dr. Goodman
Photo courtesy Guy Chan


Photo courtesy Guy Chan


 

  

Floating Magnet Experiment,
 Fun with Superconductors

Thanks to all who came by to help and/ or spectate, the experiment was a success.  Special thanks to Physics Professor Trevor Tyson for lending us the superconductor, magnet and accessories.  Also special thanks to Vishal R Mehta and Dr. Ivanov for giving us a generous amount of liquid nitrogen.

Link to more pictures


We're not lifting
spaceships out of swamps but its still cool

Fun for all Ages:
 Wed, Feb 8, 2:40 PM Tier 107

We made some nice pictures with spirograph then modeled them mathematically then graph them on computers.  We use my old set pictured at right.

heres the wikipedia on spirograph

here's a mathy link about it.

it would be extra cool if we could do any of the things below,  try and think of a way . . .

http://www.csm.astate.edu/wheels/wheels.html

http://www.mathsyear2000.co.uk/explorer/circles/wheels.shtml

 


Jonathan's old Spirograph Toy
Catenary Demonstration Experiment
Fun with hyperbolic cosine

Thanks to all who came by to help and/or spectate, the experiment was a success.  There is a good chance we'll  grace our campus with a larger version between the Campus Center and Fenster Hall; date/time TBA.
Special thanks to Jeanina Perez for taking some photos.


Look carefully, the green line shows that all the white strings come down the the same height.  This was done without rulers, calculators or numbers (and without cutting the rope afterwards)
 

 The secret revealed, a bit of geometric calculus shows that this trick works.  If you were in the Mathclub last fall, you already know why.
 

Soccer match
The Bi-annual Undergraduate vs. Professors and Grad. Students soccer match was canceled due to snow.  But hey, snow is not bad (some nice physics there as well).

 

Focoult's Pendulum Demonstration
Ike watches the earth spin before his very eyes.

For those who missed the foucault's pendulum experiment Nov, 15th, don't worry, the earth spun without you. All 3 objectives were met.  Click here for more info and pictures on Jonathan's website.  The NJIT newsroom put out a press release on it, were famous now.  We plan to improve on this next year- heavier weights, longer ropes.

 

Math Competitions we Participated in
Putnam Competition . . . Your chance at fame an fortune


Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest . . . Your more likely chance at a little less fame and fortune, but nothing to sneeze at.

 

Suggested Future Events

Cycloid Curves

But what is a cycloid?  See animated gif below, courtesy of Mathworld.
We will work together to construct a physical cycloid so we can test loads of its properties.

  • Shortest time for something to roll down on, called the Brachisttochrone problem.  We can roll marbles down and see.

  • A marble rolled on it will have simple harmonic motion in x, y, and length.  Called the Tautochrone Problem.  It will take the same time to get to the bottom however high you start it.

  • A cycloid is its own Evolute and Involute, we can test this one with strings.
     

  • All these together provide that a pendulum will keep perfect time when constrained next to two cycloids like below:

  • More details at the first fall meeting

 

Pi-Lander Gazette Magazine

Last but definitely not least: Publication of the Annual Pi-Lander Gazette Magazine.  Hey it even has its own sidebar link to it!

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