The Giant Christmas Tree of 2009

As we do every year, we drove up to the Christmas Tree Farms above Los Gatos and picked out a big tree for the living room.   Being that it  is Mia’s last Christmas as a senior and that we have Holiday parties planned at the house this year,  we decided to find a realy big…

Mia’s Trebuchet Physics Project

First of all, yes this was my daughters Leland High School Physics Project that I enjoyed helping her with, however, if they didn’t expect parents and outsiders to help these kids, why did they set the dimensions of the device to one square meter and choose a projectile like a baseball?  No way to build…