Photo Gallery: Physics Boat Day 2011

Photos by Kennington Cung, Photo Manager Every year hundreds of of students and faculty gather for Physics Boat Day. Students are given a number of pieces of wood proportional to their weight and told to make a boat that could support them across a pool. Students gathered at Westminster High to test their engineering prowess [...]

Physics Boats Day

Photos by John Severson and Jeffrey Nguyen

Physics Fun Day Gallery

By John Severson

Physics Fun Day!

By  Tooba Ghias, Staff Writer On Thursday, March 2, physics students from all over Southern California journeyed to Knott\’s Berry Farm to take part in physics-related competitions, festivities, and, of course, some rides. The theme park opened for the students at 8 AM, two hours earlier than usual, with a total of 5,000 teenagers in [...]

Physics Boats Day

By Alex Chiang, Staff writer  On Saturday, May 30, hundreds of boats embarked on their christening voyage, captained not by sailors but scholars.  Physics students from almost every school in the District met at Fountain Valley High School to sail their homemade boats across the swimming pool.    The physics boat race is a long-standing tradition [...]

Physics Fun Day

On March 5, 2009 FVHS physics students participated in the Southern Californian annual event called “Physics Fun Day” by going to Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park. What did they do there? Measure velocities, acceleration, and kinetic energies of all the rides there. There were also other physics activities and contests for students, such as constructing [...]

Blast Off!

By Brian Larzelere, Staff writer  Science teacher Mrs. Dickinson’s Physical Science classes engaged in a real world demonstration of all three of Newton’s laws on Friday. Students built rockets from 2 liter bottles, and launched them with water and air pressure.  The next generation of rocket scientists and physicists kept their fingers crossed as they [...]