Will your boat float?

Enter the Skills Canada Cardboard Boat Design Competition! Work as a team with your classmates to design and build a boat out of cardboard. Then try it out in a pool. How many people will it hold? Does it stay afloat? Or are you and your team all wet?

Building design for the new millennium!

Interested in renewable energy? Research how Architects and Engineers design building heating and cooling systems that convert and store solar energy. How does it work? How efficient is it? What are the benefits? Are there any drawbacks?

Explore the science of sports!

Are you a sports enthusiast? Ever think you could learn about the basics of physics while taking part in your favourite pastime? Well you can. Learn about the laws of momentum and impulse by designing sports equipment. Study the mechanics involved in snowboarding, mountain biking, or hockey! Learn about the physics behind tennis from NASA’s Aerodynamics in Sports team.

Interactive physics on your PC!

If you have access to the Internet, you have access to thousands of interactive physics experiments and games. Learn how airplanes fly by controlling a virtual wind tunnel. Play games that demonstrate energy conservation, elastic collision, and more. Relive the Apollo moon landing in interactive 3-D. Fly a plane with an interactive flight simulator. The possibilities are almost endless!

Ever sat in a physics class and asked yourself, "Where will I ever use this?" In an AP classroom, you will learn just that. You’ll explore the many areas where you will need to apply physics principles in post-secondary education and the workplace.

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