Results for the Physics challenge #1 - Up!!
10 days ago, we proposed to the Steemit community the first episode of regular physics challenges.
The idea was to provide a problem where the answer was not unique, but that would instead allow Steemians to try to use what they knew about physics and show how their knowledge could be applied.
We decided to focus on what is happening in the movie ‘Up’ where the old man attaches balloons to his house to go far in the sky. The question was about the number of balloons that was needed.
Funnily enough, we even got answers that none of us were expecting!
Our personal conclusions are that this challenge was a great success. It generated a scientific discussion that was spread over 35 comments. And it was really fun to discuss with you guys! Thanks a lot!
As a consequence, we will propose another challenge… soon (enough).
And now, what everybody is waiting: the results. First of all, the reward of 100 STEEM will entirely be shared among the participants. We were super happy with your participation! On top of that, the post earned 42.194 SBD, which once converted in STEEM, gives 30 STEEM.
We will thus give back to the steemit community today a total of 130 STEEM. The total list of (alphabetically ordered) participants includes: @ace108, @bsameep, @cryptastic, @dreamrafa, @jamhuery, @lovewild, @Kryptik, @point .
Each of the participants will get 3 STEEM to start with. This leaves 106 STEEM to be shared. It was very hard for us to decide, and those negotiations were actually tougher than the Paris agreement on climate change. Okay maybe not…
This being said, the final ranking is
@ace108: 3 STEEM
@bsameep: 23 STEEM
@cryptastic: 30 STEEM
@dreamrafa: 6 STEEM
@jamhuery: 20 STEEM
@lovewild: 11 STEEM
@Kryptik: 7 STEEM
@point: 30 STEEM
These accounts are currently being powered up, and thanks again for your participation. All earnings from this post will be used for future steemSTEM activities!
Congratulations to the participants/winners. Great job everyone, pretty good earnings for a bit of physics homework eh?
Definitely!
Excellent initiative, I did look at the post but decided not to comment, was great to see the discussion. Looking forward to seeing more of this kind of thing in the future!
Don't hesitate to contact us (maybe on the steemit chat when it will be back up) if you have ideas! :)
WOW WOW WOW !!!
This is so cool
Finally a little bit of applied sci/math homework actually pays without applying for government approved grants thanks to steemit and steemstem.
Very much appreciated.
Looking forward to the coming science puzzles.
Thank you kindly
Another fun thing about this was learning new things, like:
Hydrogen gas is just a little lighter than helium gas. I thought the difference would be greater.
Both gases are very much lighter than hot air. I didn't know the difference is so much.
There are other possibilities, like a plasma, vacuum, etc.
Houses typically weigh about 40K to 70K kg.
This is exactly the idea beyond such open problems. Thanks for your participation :)
Congrats to the winners! I'm looking forward to this in the future! Go Physics!
Yep! Physics is great :D
wow thanks!, bring more challenges! :D
We will! Don't worry :)
Ayy this is an awesome idea. Sad I missed the first challenge but looking forward to future ones. I love solving problems :) keep doing great things
Sure we will! And we are looking forward to your participation in the next challenge!
Thank you so much. keep doing great things
Thanks team, you made my day...
The physicist in me is still alive...
Physicists never die. They are cats :)
Thanks @steemstem @justtryme90 @lemouth @jaki01, Waiting for chemistry challenge, ;)
This will come in due time :)
Cool :))
Great post. Many benefits can be taken from the reading ... thanks @steemstem
thank you to you too for supporting us!!
Thanks again...