Duke: If you have participated in any significant research activity outside of school, please provide a brief description and limit your response to one or two paragraphs.

Northwestern: If you have done any research or independent study outside of school, please include an abstract or summary of your work.

266-word version:
...Initially observed by Michael Faraday in 1831, the phenomenon was named Faraday Heaping, eliciting tremendous curiosity among many physicists. Although its mechanism involving interstitial air has already been established, I delved in further to reveal the relationship between the size of the heap and relevant parameters...