Project Ideas for Winter 11-12

MJM memo about projects

PDFs from the European Journal of Physics

• <>Buzzer toy build and test
• Soap film catenoids
• Surface plasmon experiments (discuss with Dr. Syed)
• CD hovercraft
  
• Ball bounce, thump and ring
• Magnetic susceptibility
• Magnetically coupled oscillators
• Oscillations of magnetically repelling air carts
  

• { 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.)