How can u make a small hurricane for a science project?
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just fill the washbasin to the upper limit of it , then suddenly take out the rubber plug from the drain hole , a small hurricane will generate , it rotates cw if u live in the northen part of earth , and ccw for southern part of equator
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You take lots of measurements of wind velocity, temperature and barometric pressure at many grid points, each of which defines a "cell" (a small volume of air -- small compared to the size of the hurricane, that is). From pressure and temperature you can estimate density of each cell, and from the cell volume, the cell's mass. Kinetic energy = 0.5*M*V^2.  Compute for each cell and add 'em up.
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Read: http://www.answers.com/topic/hurricane?gwp=19
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Here are a few ideas-----get some glue bottles and mix them with black paint---then have the kids use the paint/glue mixture to draw ocean animals and islands and such.  LET DRY.  Then have the kids paint with watercolor the animals.-- the outlines of the glue hold in the water paint so its like a coloring book with the paint they made.\n\nOther ideas are you can get a 50lb bag of silica sand---found at Menard's, home depot, or Lowes, this normally runs about $4 a bag---lots of sand---then take ziplock bags and food coloring and actually die the sand with food coloring---have the students use white glue bottles to make a picture with the glue and then add the colored sand ---repeat with more glue and different colored sand---kids love the different colored sand and gives it the beach or island look---\n\nHope these ideas help
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Here's a site with alot of different ideas and difficulty levels with instructions.  Maybe you can find something here.\n\nOr you can tell us more about what you are wanting to do and what you like and we might be more helpful on here.\n\nhttp://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/
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If you are making a model this might be useful for you:\nUse cardboard to create a ocean with ups and downs. Cover it with dark blue oil paint and some white color for the foam. You can use transparent plastic sheets to cover this model to get a glossy effect. Try not to put the sheet very tight. Stick it loosly so that it creates an effect like waves.\n\nIf you want to make the whole classroom ocean-like, then make it slightly dark and run a cassette with the sound of the waves.
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Try this: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ it's made by Nasa and is hot!!
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OK I'm cheating - I put this answer up a little while ago.\n\nA quick and dirty idea for a physics project would be one based on electromagnetism. Without knowing what grade you're targeting, a simple one that has a fair amount of pizzazz is to build a gauss rifle. Checkout http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/gauss.html\n\nThe sci-toys site has some other pretty cool stuff that you might find useful as well.\n\nFor a more advanced example, you can make a small rail gun that applies similar principles but can have a much larger kick. Just do a search on "rail gun experiment".\n\nEnjoy!!
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LOOK OUT FOR A HURRICANE!!!!!!
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please do not do this for a science project.  too common.  but if you really want to know...most ppl get a small coke bottle and mould clay around it to get the mountain shape.
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You could make a cloud chamber. It's a chamber that's saturated with alcohol vapor so when a cosmic ray or radioactive particle enters the chamber it leaves a trail of mist like when a plane leaves a vapor trail. It does use dry ice and isopropyl alcohol though. It's kind of complicated but would be worth it in the end. You might even win depending on the competition.
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Discovery Channel has some nice science project resources.\n\nhttp://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/
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Ben Franklin--Go fly a kite in a lightning storm and attach a key. It is  sure to be en-lightning..lol
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http://www.scioly.org/obb/board.php?FID=35\n\nThis is where I get help for such projects.  If you can't find the information, start a new topic and ask your question.  It is a great science project help site!
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Hurricanes are what scientists call "strong Tropical Cyclones". They are formed when large areas of the ocean become heated, and the air pressure over that area drops. This causes thunderstorms and strong surface winds. Cyclones develop over tropical or sub-tropical waters (for example, in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa, or in the Pacific). As they travel long distances gathering energy from the ocean, they are likely to be classified as strong Tropical Cyclones. When the winds of a tropical storm reach 74 mph, then the storm is classified as a hurricane.\n\nMore information on how hurricanes happen can be found on this good site : http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/creation.html
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Below is a website through Yahoo! just for science fair project ideas, etc.  I hope this helps.
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Well I recomend Tornadoes. They made a great project for me ^^ U can actually MAKE a tornado in ur classroom WIHTOUT that dinky water bottle trick! It was a great project. Another good one is Mice and shape rocognition. U put together a maze with portals in the shape of triangles, circles and squares, and see if u can train the mice to recognize that the triangles will always lead to the food instead of what they naturally assume(circles) E-mail me for further details on the Tornado Project which I HIGHLY recomned! happiest_phantom@yahoo.com