Special prize at 'Jugend forscht'High school students develop charging network for electric cars
There is currently no nationwide charging network for electric cars in Germany. Anchar', an idea by Leonard Sondermann, Felix Ulonska and Moritz Kunz from Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium in Münster, aims to remedy this situation.
National victory 2019 in the field of physics for Nils Wagner (20):
Enormous distances can be achieved with a Frisbee, the current world record is over 300 meters. The reason for this is the rotation of the flying object: it plays a decisive role in stabilizing the flight. Nils Wagner devoted his work to a similar throwing device: the "X-Zylo" is a thin-walled hollow cylinder that is thrown like a football and can fly in an astonishingly straight line. In order to understand this in detail, the young researcher wrote a computer program that can simulate the trajectory of the X-Zylo. He then checked the results on the basis of tests with a self-built, catapult-like launching device. The result: the calculated and actual trajectories were close to each other, even though the software did not yet take into account all the effects that are relevant for the flight.