Project Ideas for Winter 10-11

MJM memo about projects

PDFs from the European Journal of Physics

• Boltzmann constant from Johnson noise
• Buzzer toy build and test
• Ball bounce, thump and ring
• Thin glass plate in a light beam (my audio idea not included)
• Magnetic braking by dropping a stack of magnets
  
• Magnetic susceptibility
• Magnetic levitation
  
• Magnetically coupled oscillators
• Demonstration gyroscope
  

• { 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.)