Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research
[CAPP Student Achievement] 1st & 3rd Place at 2016 KAIST Ig-Nobel Prizes Contest
CAPP student assistants submitted an entry for 2016 KAIST Ig-Nobel Prizes Contest and took the first place (Mr. Dongok Kim, Mr. Junu Jeong and Mr. On Kim) and the third place (Mr. Hoang Le Phuong and Mr. Seung Pyo Chang)
Ig-Nobel Prizes Contest is a research project competition studying a topic which is often considered useless but original.
Students conduct a research on a topic which is believed to be brilliant but inappropriate to introduce in academic journals for a year and demostrate their scholastic depth throughout the research.
The five CAPP students took 1st place and 3rd place at the innovative research contest respectively.
Below is the research outcome poster.
Author: Mr. Dongok Kim, Mr. Junu Jeong and Mr. On Kim (1st Place)
Abstract:
We regarded the video puzzle game, Tetris, which is very popular irrespective of gender or age and easy to learn also as a nature system. Two rules of the Tetris are considered as physical phenomena; the creation of new block regularly and annihilation of the line in a row. From these assumptions, the Tetris System had been analyzed by methodology of statistical mechanics, and dynamic equilibrium of the system was investigated.
The core factors of Tetris were re-interpreted to physical terms and simulated by Pyhton programming. The entropy, Hamiltonian, free energy and so on were defined to get the critical temperature at dynamic equilibrium. The Tetris system could be analyzed with respect to its environment.
If the length of the block is too short, the dynamic equilibrium appears regardless of iteration and does not when the length is four. In addition, the critical temperature is minimized when the width of Tetris System is in vicinity of ten.
The Tetris System could be investigated successfully with physical methodology and the reason for interesting point of the Tetris could be inferred. Usual Tetris game has length four and width ten.
Author: Mr. Hoang Le Phuong and Mr. Seung Pyo Chang (3rd Place)
Abstract:
The UAV which is recently commercialized has great potential for various usage. For example, Amazon, Google are planning to make delivery service using the UAV. There are some reports on UAV which is run by solar photovoltaic solar cell. This repor is about the UAV which is run by wireless energy transmission from laser using photovoltaic solar cell. We tested the UAV and succeed it to make it fly for 30 minuites using 4W, 808 nm laser.