Jack Weston

University of Leicester

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Billy Peacock

University of Leicester

Archie Page

University of Leicester

Matthew Logan

United States Geological Survey

Alfie Hopkinson

University of Leicester

Alfred Hopkinson

Aarhus University

L F Bates

Medical Diagnostic Laboratories (United States)

Matt Logan

California State University, San Bernardino

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University of Leicester

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

California State University, San Bernardino

Mecklenburg County Government

Williamson College

University of Cambridge

Medical Diagnostic Laboratories (United States)

University of Nottingham

Nottingham College

University College London

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P5_8 Listening to Metal

Physics Special Topics (2019)

Billy Peacock Alfie Hopkinson Jack Weston Matthew Logan Archie Page

We considered whether constructing an unknown metal into a tuning fork of known dimensions and identifying its fundamental frequency is accurate enough to find what the metal is.

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P5_7 Baked Alaska

Physics Special Topics (2019)

Billy Peacock Alfred Hopkinson Jack Weston Matthew Logan Archie Page

Alaska currently has a very cold Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, but due to global warming and a proposed increase of global temperatures of 5.4 ◦C by 2100 AD this is being threatened. We calculated if placing an insulating cube on Alaska in 2100 AD and using a refrigerator to cool it down to its 2019 AD temperatures was a viable solution to keeping Alaska cold. It was worked out it would need 1.1×1015 J of work in order to cool the interior of the cube. It was concluded the environmental damage and increased fossil fuel emissions are too great for this to be a option.

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Cube (algebra)

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P5_9 Harnessing a Neutron Star

Physics Special Topics (2019)

Billy Peacock Alfie Hopkinson Jack Weston Matthew Logan Archie Page

This paper investigates the potential power that could be harnessed from a neutron star using Faraday’s law, and ﬁnds it to be a rate of 8.2 × 1020 W. We concluded that a rate of transfer of energy this high would be enough to injure Thor in a scene from Marvel’s ”Avengers: Inﬁnity War”.

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Star (game theory)

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Thermal Expansion of Invar

Nature (1940)

L F Bates Jack Weston

Invar

10.1038/145550a0

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P5_1 Can the UK feasibly be powered solely by one nuclear power station

Physics Special Topics (2019)

Billy Peacock Alfred Hopkinson Jack Weston Matthew Logan Archie Page

The United Kingdom consumed 300 TWh of electricity in 2018 which came from a variety of sources. We calculated the mass of nuclear fuel one nuclear power station would need to power the UK for one year, for a typical nuclear reactor and a modern reactor. For a standard reactor this gave a total mass of 850 metric tonnes of uranium, this is equivalent to 34 standard nuclear power plants. Whereas it needed 650 tonnes of uranium for a modern reactor, equivalent to 25 standard reactors. It was found that one very large nuclear reactor is not a feasible answer to the energy needs of the country due to the high costs of maintaining the reactor and buying fuel.

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Depleted Uranium

Enriched uranium

Nuclear Fuel

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P5_6 How Many Turns Does a Coil Tattoo Machine Need

Physics Special Topics (2019)

Billy Peacock Alfie Hopkinson Jack Weston Matthew Logan Archie Page

We calculated how many turns a single solenoid of known dimensions in a coil tattoo machine would need to drive a needle at a frequency of 3000 strikes per minute at a voltage of 12 V. It was found around 18050 turns would be needed.

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Energy Changes Accompanying Magnetization

Nature (1940)

L F Bates Jack Weston

Hysteresis

Statement (logic)

10.1038/145188a0

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P5_4 Decommissioning the International Space Station

Physics Special Topics (2019)

Billy Peacock Alfie Hopkinson Jack Weston Matthew Logan Archie Page

The goal of this paper was to see whether it would be possible to de-orbit the International Space Station by completing a single Hohmann Transfer burn, using only the Progress module engine, reducing its orbital radius so that it experiences higher atmospheric drag. We found that 12,760 kg of fuel would be required to create a burn to achieve this, and therefore not possible with the Progress module in its current capacity.

Nuclear decommissioning

International Space Station

Orbit (dynamics)

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P5_5 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Physics Special Topics (2019)

Billy Peacock Alfie Hopkinson Jack Weston Matthew Logan Archie Page

In Sony Picture’s ’Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’, a sentient machine rains down meatballs upon unsuspecting people causing havoc. We investigate, in this paper, the effect such meatballs would have have on people, and show that smaller meatballs could cause bodily harm, and larger meatballs could destroy objects as large as cars, however it is still unknown whether a meatball would be able to withstand falling through the atmosphere.

Falling (accident)

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P5_3 Whats cookin' good lookin'

Physics Special Topics (2019)

Billy Peacock Alfred Hopkinson Jack Weston Matt Logan Archie Page

Using magnifying glasses to set things on fire is an age-old pastime of curious children, we investigate in this paper whether it is possible to take this act to the extreme of focusing the Sun's power to cook an adult human. It was found that it is indeed possible with a suitably large magnifying glass of radius 2.4m that is held over a person for 1 hour.

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