Project Based Science: Rubik's Cube Related

[Greenymeany]

I'm in a high school course called "Project Based Science". I have the option to do an independent project spanning the course of ten weeks related to one of the "hard sciences" (Non Psychology, sociology).

I want my project to be Rubik's Cube related, however I am having a hard time thinking of such a thing.

Does anyone have any ideas?


Thank you.

PS: I'm not sure if this is the right section or not, because the "Off Topic" section description says "All non-cube related discussion goes here."

 

[asportking]

Does it have to strictly be science, or can you integrate some math into it? Because there are a lot of math-related things with the Rubik's cube (group theory and such), but I can't really think of anything science-related. What if you focused more about the mechanics of the cube rather than the permutations of it? - maybe the amount of force it takes to turn different cubes, corner-cutting, things like that.

 

[Godmil]

What about lube related, then you've got all the chemistry stuff and viscosity physics.

 

[Specs112]

What about lube related, then you've got all the chemistry stuff and viscosity physics.

Because that definitely won't be taken the wrong way or anything.

 

[Godmil]

Because that definitely won't be taken the wrong way or anything.

Well instead of titling it "LUBE!" it could be called something like "Polydimethylsiloxane Fluid use in Twisting Puzzles".

 

[retep]

Only thing that comes to mind for science would be physics related, meaning stuff like determining the acceleration due to gravity by dropping cubes from high places, but I wouldn't really recommend that...

Or perhaps something like the torsional forces involved in rotating layers of the cube but I would have a hard time doing an entire project on something like that...