Grade Category: 10 - 12

Team Size: 1

Subject Area: Physics

Project Type: Descriptive

Language: English

Summary: This website is intended to educate the public about the physics of car safety. I have tried to make the website simple to understand so that people of all ages can grasp the concepts, but at the same time I have also tried to include as many physics topics as possible without using too many equations and complicated descriptions.

Software and Tools Used: To create the index page and the project information page, I used Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and Microsoft Notepad. For the main part of the website I used Macromedia Flash MX. I also created the text headings using a program called Xara3D. This program created 3D text, buttons and animations with many different effects. To edit the photographs in the main website I also used Adobe Photoshop.

Hardware Used: Practically everything on this website was created on the computer using different software programs as mentioned above. For some of the photos, I used a CanoScan FB 620P scanner. I then edited them in Photoshop CS.

Special Skills Used: In order to make the main site open in a new window, I used a few lines of JavaScript. For the main website I used ActionScript, which is the programming code used in Flash MX. I used a lot of HTML. There is quite a bit of heavy coding in some parts of the website, especially in the sections where Flash scroll bars are used. This year I have included images into the scroll areas which made the programming section a lot more complicated than my website that I entered last year.

Awards Won: I have not won any awards for this website yet.

Source of Idea: The information on this website was also partially used for my grade 12 physics ISP on the physics of car safety. When making the website, I had to expand on certain topics, as well as simplfy others to make it easier to understand the concepts that go into car safety devices so that people of all age groups and understand and learn from the website.