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Link posted to CHEMED-L, I think it may be interesting: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/deep-in-the-heart-of-texas/ Before it was NCLB policy and teaching to the test, whoever survived and actually learned something will be now treated by student evaluated education.

I'm skipping most the details so no need to inquire -- I have finished my first year of grad school in physics and am not going to join a group until the first quarter of next year. Until then I will be taking classes and teaching; in the summer I only do the latter. I don't have qualifiers to...

History repeats itself examples; any ideas? (please!) Can please give me any ideas about examples ‘history repeating itself’ in Indian history? It’s for my history project on “History Repeats Itself”. Our teacher told us to collect the information from the internet but in spite of googling I...

Folks, I do Logic design and verification of Multi-core chips for a living (4th year in Semiconductor/Computer HW industry). I don't have much of a background in Physics outside my high school and some Applied Physics courses that I took in BS-EE and MS-EE. I don't covet a PhD in Physics, all I...

Ok , so I'm already thinking of my gr 12 physics project for next year. We have to build a device anyhting that shows amazing physics principles, does anyone have ideas on what i should build and the physics behind it. Here is the project handout and outline: Overview The main objective of...

Homework Statement At the moment, I am planning my I.B extended essay (last 2 years at school), and have chosen to do my EE on physics. I've done loads of background research about Reynolds Number and how it affects the type of flow present. There is an experiment I can recreate (Reynolds...

Hi, I'm a high school junior and was recently accepted into the Simons Summer Research Program at Stony Brook University. I have seven weeks during the summer to select a project and carry out experiments, possibly entering my research in the Intel Science Talent Search. I will be working in...

Homework Statement I need to do a final project for my Intro to MATLAB class and I have no idea what to do it on. Does anyone have any ideas for a program I could create? Other students are doing card tricks or games like MASH.

I am working on a hobby project. I need 2 perfectly spherical, perfectly balanced, pure metal (ie. pure titanium, aluminum, etc.) balls made, and then I need one (the larger one) to be precisely drilled through the center. It is essential that everything is done in an extremely accurate manner...

Share your idea about futuristic mass transport,please.. Thank you..

For my lab class we have to make some sort of physics demonstration in our machine shop with a budget of ~$600-$1000. I was wondering if anyone on here had some suggestions as to some cool/fun things to make? Things along the lines of Van De Graaf generators, inverted pendulums, etc. can be...

Ok so here's the deal. Wind powered machine project.. -Large Industrial Fan blowing -4 meters away from the fan is a wooden block on the ground with a hook in it (to attach rope, etc) -must pull the wooden block 4 meters TOWARDS the fan in the fastest amount of time possible -machine must...

I'm looking for ideas for an experiment that we get to choose ourselves. It should be at the level of a first year physics student and use equipment that is either found at home or that any physics department should have. Does anyone have some cool ideas? I'm finding it hard to think of...

Egg Mover - Design ideas!? We've been assigned a design project and I'm just looking for some thoughts, comments, opinions and ideas. I'd like to get few different perspectives on the design problem. I've attached a picture that depicts what the system looks like. Homework Statement...

Problem: I have to do a required senior project for high school. My topic is the general physics behind deep space travel. (like humans traveling to other solar systems in reasonable time). I need to do a project on it but do not know what exactly to do. Please Give Me Ideas! Basically, I...

An article on news.discovery.com titled, "The Universe is Precisely 13.75 Billion Years Old" on Feb. 4 says: "The amount of CMB radiation spotted near clusters of galaxies is greater than expected. According to [cosmological] theory, CMB photons should interact with these clusters, getting...

Math cake! Ideas Answer before 11 pm on 3-10-2010.. Can u help me? I need a great idea for a math cake. Please help me, i have been racking my brains! If u answer, write in detail please...

Hello, I haven’t frequented this board in long while but right now I need some advice. I’m currently a third year electrical engineering student (on an irregular course sequence) and quite frankly, I’m becoming disillusioned about the field I’ve chosen. It’s not that electronics or power...

Hi, all. Would anyone suggest your own idea about what actually spin it is? I can not form an image in my head about spin... Spin is vector, can be 1/2 can be 1, and if say it is 1/2, then Spin's Z component can be -1/2 or +1/2 ...??! and the magnitude of spin vector is: |S| = sqrt(S(S+1))...

i have to take a photo demonstrating a Kinematics Phenomena. I do one every unit but this unit is really sutmping me. For the optics unit i took a picture of a laser bending through glass, for waves i took a picture of light interfering through a diffraction grating, for electricity i took a...

What do thoughts do you have on M-theory? It's credibility? Also, is there evidence that these supposed membranes exist?

Hey all, I think what I'm looking for is pretty self explanatory. If this isn't the right forum to post this question in, feel free to yell at me and i'll post it elsewhere. As some background, I am a senior electrical engineering major at a major university. I am in a senior design...

Hey guys I wasn't too sure where to put this but here goes. I need to write a script for a short skit/play (less than 6 pages) about my topic for an English course, which was importance of nuclear disarmament to world safety. I just need help with the situation..I was thinking - Scene 1 - two...

Im in a competition and we need to build a robot that shoots 3 ping pong balls through 3 holes and then rounds the bases as if on a baseball field- there is a peg at each base it must knock down. Heres a link that shows the track on page 3...

I am a senior level physicist at the University of Alabama: Huntsville and I am going to do my physics research starting next semester. I need some serious, interesting, and fun ideas on what to focus on. Thus far I have had upper level mechanics, intermediate relativity, all calculus and...

The last step before getting my degree in Mathematics is a senior thesis that I need to write. Ideally I could combine my interest in astronomy/astrophysics with a math focus and have a thesis I'd actually be interested in writing. I'm just coming up short as far as ideas go. Does anyone have...

I am in sort of a critical bind: I've been working for several months on an ISEF entry as part of a class (actually, working on the project IS the class), and in the past week it has completely fallen apart -- I won't go into details, but there is absolutely nowhere I can take the project...

Homework Statement I have written a working program that can obtain a numerical solution to the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, given at initial pulse, using the split-step Fourier method. I have performed the first task of writing a working programme and have shown that if the initial...

In my university there is a senior project class in which the whole semester you try to engineer something to show off all of the knowledge you've gained thus far. In the past projects have been things such as online social networks, video games, underwater robotics, business software, etc...

Share what you plan to buy, what you think could be a good idea, or what you want. In fact I am looking for ideas as I don't have a gift for Marzena yet :rolleyes:

Does anyone of you have experience with making paper movies? :biggrin: The ones where you have a booklet with images and when you flick through it you have the illusion of a movie. I'm making a booklet and have the idea of making a moving worm in it, but I am wondering whether every page...

I have a friend asking for ideas for an A or C oriented gift, including things that might be a bit of a scam, like having a star named after you. I know that you can buy land on the moon but that is expensive. Any ideas?

Hello everyone, I am an looking for a senior project for aerospace engineering. In my Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) course it came up that one of the many applications of CFD is astrophysics and the modeling of planet/star formation. Our professor suggested it to me as a...

Hi all, I was wondering: how do you know or find out if something is a good idea to publish? For instance: in an attempt to make quantum mechanics more physically-graspable, I feel (whimsically, at present) inspired to write a side-by-side comparison of the derivations of the matching-results...

Like most people, when I need a recipe or cooking advice, I head straight to the Physics Forums. OK, so I'm on the hook for an office pot luck contribution next week. I'm going to make some kind of hot appetizer. My first idea was frozen mini pastry puff appetizers (from Trader Joes) but it...

I am enrolled in a Classical mechanics course. The course covers topics such as Euler angles, Lagrange equations, change of reference frame, two body problem, rigid body dynamics, etc. We're using the Marion and Thornton text. We were given a final project. We can either apply these concepts...

I am thinking of some RFID applications, and the web seems to prove there is an endless supply of applications and problems already solved. Is there any hope to do a master's thesis/project in this field that would be worthwhile? If I come up with a good idea, its already done, and if I come...

Need help with solving this DE. Homework Statement (x e^{\frac{y}{x}} + 2x^2 y)dy - y e^{\frac{y}{x}}dx = 0 Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Well, I don't even know where to start. It's not exact, and I can't make it exact with an integrating factor. All of this y/x...

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Projectile Launcher Ideas? I was originally going to make a trebuchet, but my teacher informed me that trebuchets are not very effective, though accurate if made right. I decided to make a spring loaded projectile launcher, yet I can't find any material lists or designs on the Internet. The...

[FONT="Arial Black"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]what is the best topic for an electrical engineering student for thesis proposal?

Our group has come across a few iinteresting ideas. We would really like to do something with aviation and control, but it needs to be more on the EE side than the CSE side where there's a lot of programming that can be done... ANY IDEAS in general much appreciated... FOR those of you who...

I need science fair ideas... and quick! I love math and the universe so this was the first place I came looking for ideas, but my mind is blank. So I eventually came back... and I still need ideas! I must have at least three to present tomorrow. We only had the weekend, so don't blame me!

Hi everyone I’m doing an engineering course at school and we need to write a 2000 word essay on why engineers have failed society (you can choose to agree or disagree) The description for the essay is: Engineers have failed society by designing products that have high energy consumption and...

I will be going into my senior year of my engineering physics major with a minor in mechanical engineering and mathematical science. I have made posts in Nuclear Engineering, and Clerk[patent] jobs, etc. because I have no idea what I want to do after I graduate. I'll have to admit, money is...

First off, I'm new here. Greetings! I should start off by saying I'm not a genius, as I'm sure some people here may be. I don't have a degree in any of the fields on this website, but all interest me. I like to think I have a general understanding of how some things work, but I know I always...

I go to a state school with a small physics program we are in a little trouble due to low physics students enrollment. That is just a little back story I find myself in the position of the president of the physics club. Not a huge accomplishment there are only three of us. I was hoping a few...

Has anyone used the text 'Six Ideas That Shape Physics: C, E, N, Q, R, T' by Thomas A. Moore? I'm using this text for my physics course this fall and haven't heard of it before. Thanks!

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone has used the software Mathematica 7. I heard it's a really good program and with the new functions it looks great, i was just wanted to get some good user feedback from people who definitely know what they're talking about. Thanks! P.S. - as a side note...

This is my first post by the way. I am hoping to be accepted here and not considered a "n00b". RELATIVE Let me begin by first telling you a story: Once upon a time there was a man, one day he decided to ask god a question. The man asked god “If you created me, who created you?” God looked at...