AAPT Apparatus Competition Winners, Guelph University, Summer 2000

Low Cost Category (each prize, $100)

• Gurbax Singh, U. of Maryland, Eastern Shore, Air Column Resonance Apparatus Redesigned.
• Alice Churukian, Kansas State University, Right-Hand and :Left-Hand Rules
• Munawar Karim, St. John Fisher College, Acceleration Demonstrator
• Eugene Mosca and John Ertel, U. S. Naval Academy, Axial Vectors: A Corridor Display
• Sam Sampere, Syracuse University, Color Mixing Via Polarization
• Tom DeFayette and Gene Clark, Trinity University, A Double Pendulum Constructed from Inline Skate Wheels

Introductory Laboratory Category

• First Prize ($1000) John Ross Buschert, Goshen College, System to Measure Horsepower and Torque Curves of a Car
• (no second prize)
• (four third prizes, $200 each)
• Richard Flarend, Penn State Altoona, Uniform Vertical Circular Motion
• Mary Anne Hickman, Michael Brown, and Steve Palmer, Swarthmore College, Physical Pendulum and Damped Simple Harmonic Motion Apparatus
• Hsu-Chang Lu, Rutgers University, Compact Forced Harmonic Oscillator
• Lei Bao, Kirsten Hogg, and Dean Zollman, Kansas State University, LED Laboratory and Demonstration Device