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The
mathematics of snowflakes
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Introduction:
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infinite beauty which is enhanced by the fact that you
never find another exactly like it. Nature 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? |
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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.
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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 forms 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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