1998/1999 Student Abstracts by Subject:

Abortion

Lightel, Tina - Does Abortion Make A Difference in Teen Births

Aerodynamics

Tucker, Adam R. - Drag and its Effect on Rate of Fall

Anatomy

Wallace, Joe C. - Weight!! How tall are you?

Astronomy

Beardsley, Eileen - Will the Earth Maintain its Circular Orbit?

Hallford, Amanda Michelle - The Relationship Between the Mass and Equatorial Surface Gravity of Planetary Objects

Hardeman, Daniel - Earth Vs. Jupiter: An Application of Kepler’s Third Law

McSwain, Roderick L. - A Model of a Lunar Orbit

Parker, Matthew - The Visualization of the Curvature of Space at a Black Hole

Patel, Rubesh - The Relationships Among the Nine Planets

Sairs, Isaac - Modeling Mir's Orbit Around the Planet Earth

Smith, Franke - What Affects the Orbital Speeds of the Planets

Teoh, Nicole - A Calculation of the Earth’s Rotational and Orbital Speeds

Volek, Ian - A VRML Representation of Kepler’s Second Law

Walker, Lauren - Is the Universe Proportional?

Athletics

Bailey, Lucas - Baseball

Harrell, Kelman - The NBA: Who Really Got Game?

Johnson, Carlton T. - N.B.A. Rookies: What Makes a Prospect?

Rice, Cristina - Girls vs. Boys: A Quarter Throwing Contest

Atoms

Brians, Obadiah - Atoms and How They Combine to Form Molecules

Automobile Safety

Boles, Chris - Sports Cars are Safer: A Study in Braking Distance

Davis, Mandy - Braking at 35 MPH

Gordon, Amber - Braking Barriers

Hare, Casey C. - Braking: Firm or Locked?

Strickland, Melissa D. - The Effects of Reaction Time and Initial Velocity on Braking Distance

Wells, Tiffany A. - Kinematics of Passing

Benchmark Tests

Parisot, Adam - Fast Is as Fast Can

Chaos

Laska, Jason - Is There a Relation Between the Path of an Electron and a Chaotical System?

Chemistry

Sheldon, Amber Elizabeth - Molecular Geometry: Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion

Spates, Rachel - The Effects of Ethanol as a Fuel

Conservation of Energy

Gatrone, Ralph C.P. - Conservation of Energy in a System

Robertson, Amy - Physics of Popular Amusement Park Rides

Criminology

Fantroy, Larry - Dropouts And Crime And Their Effects On Society

Smith, Jacqueline Sheree - Projectile Motion Physics and Its Use in Criminal Investigations Involving Firearms

Cryptography

Pope, Tim - Symmetric Key Cryptography

Ecology

Cavarzan, Jennifer - Factors Affecting Deer Population

Chin, Shiau Hui - The Effects of Deforestation

Habel, Andrew - Leaf Biomass in Blakeley State Park

Hutto, Samantha - Deer Population in Missouri

Poole, Catherine - Leaf Litter of Trees in Blakeley State Park: How It Was Affected by Hurricane Georges

Taylor, Tabitha - Does a Gomphidae Larvae's Length Affect Its Weight?

Tinnon, Tristan - Are Feeding Insect Species Determined by the Types of Plants Grown in a Garden?

Economics

Barefoot, Jennifer - The Price of Population: Per Capita Income and Fertility

Kron, David and Ryan Thorstein - Stock Market Comparison

Rego, Caio - A Brief Investigation of Economic Indicators

Education

Belsches, Adam - Read to Know? Or Know to Read?

deGruy, Frank - What Are All of Those Dropouts Doing Now?

Honeycutt, Jonathan - SAT Scores

Howell, Kassandra and Robert Colvin - U2 Can Affect Your Grade

Martin, Gillian - ACT Scores: Does Family Atmosphere Affect a Child's Later ACT Scores?

Tierce, Audra - What Affects Mobile County K-5 Students' Stanford Achievement Test Scores?

Environmental Science

Christeson, Clay - What a Waste

Gaston, Shafer - Conflicting Populations: The Importance of Resources

Epidemiology

Braccini, Nicholas - How A Virus Infects A Blood Cell

Burnett, Randi - AIDS Incidence Rates

Farkas, Lana - The Color of Cancer

Thomas, Monice - Diabetes: How Does Race, Age, and Hereditary, Etc. Relate to It?

Finance

Chen, John - Investing for College Tuition

Latimer, Jamie - Profit from a Rental House

Free Fall

Johnson, Michael - How Newton's Second Law Make Six Flags Theme Parks More Fun

Nagy, Stacie L. - A Comparison of the Descending Rates of a Skydiver and a Falling Object From Two Thousand Meters Above Sea Level

Gravimetry

Barik, Titus - Escape Velocities of Various Planets

Duvall, Lowery Jr. - Are Present Manned Rockets Capable of Escaping Jupiter and the Inner Planets of the Solar System?

Sanford, Michael Lawerence II - A Comparison of Geodetic Free Fall and Selenodetic Free Fall

Health

Bell, Kimberly Nicole - Can Your Heart Handle It?

Human Physiology

Knop, Daniel - Do You Suffer From Sleep Deprivation?

Interior Design

Ledbetter, Crystal - What Is The Most Efficient Way Of Laying Tile

Kinematics

Greene, Joe - The Perfect Basketball Shot

Mathematics

Allen, Justin - The Drainage Rate of Water From a Lake into a Box

Beatty, Michael - Numeric Integration of Three Dimensional Solids

Hester, Will - Using the Monte Carlo Method to Compute Estimated Values of Pi

Medicine

Griffin, Daisy and Pamela Brown - Emu Oil's Effect on Arthritis Pain

Hocutt, Lauren - Blood Glucose and Insulin Relationships in Development of Diabetes Type II

Meteorology

Gelsinger, Sarah - Hurricane Georges' Path of Destruction

Military Science

Alford, John - U.S.A. vs. Russia

Parker, David - Determining the Blast Wave and Burn Damage Radii of Atomic Weapons

Organic Chemistry

Orr, Jeb S. - Accurate Three Dimensional Modeling of Carbon Compounds and Their Application in Reaction Visualization

Parallel Circuit

Hansen, Chad - The Effects of Resistors on a Parallel Circuit

Physics

DeAndrade, Kevin - Universal Gravitation and Its Affect on Nature

Doty, Tracy Jill - That’s How the Ball Bounces

Pineda, Jared - The Physics of Basketball

Rutledge, David Eli - The Reaction of a Weather Balloon's Instrument Package to Being Dropped

Senft, Sam - The Collision of Two Spheres as Demonstrated by the Earth and an Asteroid

Snell, Kevin - The Physics of Three Basic Shots in Pool

Williams, Shileshia - Effect of Force and Mass

Pregnancy

Nunley, Kim - Is Teen Pregnancy On The Rise?

Tinsley, Charmia - Teenage Pregnancies In Alabama: An issue For Today's Society

Pressure

Graddick, David L. - The Hydrostatic Pressure of the Oceans

Projectile Motion

Burnett, Brandy - The Trajectory Path of a Baseball Hit at a 45 Degree Angle

Clark, Brett - Investigate the Displacement and Air Time of a Car Falling Off of A Cliff

Colley, Ashley - How Long Does it Take a Baseball to Reach its Destination?

Darmer, Angel - The Physics of the Parabolic Path of a Soccer Ball Kicked at a 45 Degree Angle

Daugherty, Jacie - Projectile Motion: The Science Behind Sports

Frizzell, Robert H. Jr. - The Trajectory Path of a Soccer Ball Given Varying Velocities and Launch Angles

Glanton, Darryl - A Graphical Interpretation of Projectile Motion

Madrid, Joel - The Physics of Tennis: An Analysis of the Parabolic Path of a Tennis Ball Hit at a Forty-Five Degree Angle

O'Connor, William Austin - Flight Path of a Projectile

Wheat, Elysia - The Parabolic Path of a Projected Sphere

Psychology

Davidson, Tara - Possible Factors of Your Happiness

Gardner, Todd - Psychokinesis: Fact or Fiction?

Rott, Tiffany - Factors Affecting Student Happiness at ASMS

Recycling

Walker, Brian - Is Recycling At ASMS Feasible

Relativity

Murphy, Michael - Study of Time Dilation at Relative Speeds

Social Strata

Baker, Cameron - Does Population Change Affect The Per Capita Income of an Area?

Sociology

Irving, Robert - Are Suicides Related to Job Income?

Ishida, Akiko and Erin Hamer - Preventing Domestic Violence

Maples, Mistica - Dropout Rates Versus Other Factors

Morris, Marina - The Three S's (Studying, Sleeping, and Socializing): Do They Effect Student's GPA at ASMS?

Shockley, Stacia - Change in the Size of Families

Twilley, Melody M. - Patterns of Suicide

Solar System

Armfield, Jason - Plotting the Planetary Orbits of Our Solar System

Brewis, Timothy Snow - Mapping the Planetary Orbits of Our Solar System in VRML

Harper, Abe - A Virtual Model of the Solar System

Ringgold, Chandlin - A Model of Our Solar System Using Kepler's Laws of Motion

Suicide

Bunch, Kelly - Melancholic Melodies

Craine, Joanna - Suicidal Regression

Teen suicide

Anderson, LaKenya B. - Teen Suicide: An Epidemic of the 90's

Telepathy

Page, Jennifer - ESP Paper

Time Management

Holland, Steven - Does ASMS Procrastinate?

Tritium

Martin, McKenzie - Tritium Atom: What Can It Do For India?

Water Conservation

Butler, Ethan - Factors Affecting the Drainage Rate of Water

Fulton, Chandler - Is There a Relationship Between the Healthiness of Groundwater and That of Drinking Water When Compounds Containing Chlorine Are Present in The Water Samples?

Reid, Nick - Water Management

Weather

Beebe, David - Hurricanes That Form In the Atlantic Ocean vs. Severity of Winter

Wildlife Population

Morris, Allison - How Poaching Effects the Gorilla Population

Parikh, Kalindi and Chastity Parker - Disappearing Tigers

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