The American Association of Physics Teachers hosts an annual photo contest that encourages high school students worldwide to capture and explain, in 250 words or less, the physics around us in the natural and manmade world. This photo, by Charmi Rajiv Patel in Jeffrey Tieman’s class at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, Illinois, earned an honorable mention in the contest’s “contrived” category. Her caption:

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