A lab experiment on internal solitary waves (AJP July 2007)
Electromagnetically driven resonance apparatus (AJP
December 1987)
Build and test a Wilberforce pendulum and and make a driver for
it. (AJP Jan 91)
Measure the radial magnetic field of anti-helmholtz coils using a
search coil and rotational motion detector.
Build
and test a tsunami water tank (variable depth rectangular
container) (EJP 2007)
Iodine molecular constants from laser excitation (see Dr.
Granieri. Did not work last year. Maybe could work this year with
improvements.)
Build a dunking bird of the 2nd kind (AJP June 04)
Infrared with a webcam (AJP Oct 05)
Bernouilli levitation (AJP Feb 03)
Measure liquid refractive index using laser beam displacement
(Applied Optics, Nov 92)
Rolling of non axi-symmetric cylinders - faster than symmetric
ones? (AJP Oct05)
{ Read through The Physics
Teacher (MJM's office), and American
Journal of Physics (PHOE conference room, MJM's office, and RH
library (from 1993 onward), for project ideas}
(Read through the European
Journal of Physics; go to the library page, then to Journals by Name, type in the name
of the journal then select Rose-Hulman
Electronic Journals. You can download a PDF of any article which
looks interesting.)