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Science Buddies: Rocking the Boat

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Become an engineer for a day and discover the best way to keep from rocking the boat in this engineering science fair project. When a ship rocks back and forth, it can make people seasick, but also it makes it dangerous for jets to land on aircraft carriers. For these reasons and many others, it is important for engineers to design bilge keels (or fins) to keep boats from rolling back and forth.

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bilge keel, fluid dynamics, hull, hydrodynamics, hydrostatics, roll, rolling motion, science fair project idea, hydrostatics science fair project, science buddies, boat, ship, boating and canoeing
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)