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Hey guys, So I need some ideas on how to best make some rotary seals (or a good alternative) for a school project I'm working on (which has a very tight budget). I'm creating some small PVC pressure vessels to put some medium sized RC servos in, and I need to run the servo's drive shaft (or...

Hey all, I'm looking for a short and fun mini design build competition for a university ASME meeting coming up. I think everyone has been a part of something like this before. For example, I did an egg drop once. We were given about 30 mins, tape, and bendy straws and had to come up with an egg...

PForums, I am a writer working on a novel and as part of my job is to research the science behind any idea, I have to make sure is it plausible in real life. I did some research about three years ago for the novel I am writing and got the opinion from scientist and medical experts in regard...

Hey everyone! I'm looking for general ideas on how to take advantages of high EM-fields created in for example , let's say, a transformer to energize a small sensor. I am not looking for specific ideas like placement, voltages etc. The reason for me asking is that this probably will be the...

Hello all, I know that there has been much work on the unification of gravity and electromagnetism, but I was wondering if they could be united the same way that electricity and magnetism were united- a changing gravitational field creates an electromagnetic field, and a changing...

please i need help. i need help in getting a physics fair project idea for middle school students and another for high school senior which will be interest and will catch attention.

I NEED CRAZY SUSHI IDEAS! So I was thinking, like, what if you put steak in a sushi thingy? or made sushi out of parts of a cheeseburger? Does anyone have any westernized bastardizations of sushi that I might want to try? Also, I need to learn how to make sushi. I bought a 8 piece sushi thing...

Hi, what do you suggest me? I prefer something relevant to energies (wind, solar etc) and to be something who i can found many info on the web to help me with my project.

ideas for a lecture in "new technologies in aircraft structure" Hi everybody... One of my doctors wants to give a practical and a little technical lecture about "new technologies in aircraft structure" and he is requisting ideas from us... What practical ideas can be presented ...

Greetings, First of all I believe this is the right forum as it isn't necessarily homework but more of a discussion about possible projects/experiments for a modern physics class. If it is in the incorrect forum could a mod please move it. I am currently taking a physics 3 course that...

can someone please give me some ideas of control system projects which have someinterface with computer?

I am trying to put together some demonstrations for E&M class related to the topic of conductors in electric field, particulary that the field inside is zero (something like Faraday cage) and that the field gets stronger with curvature. I have seen videos of the courses with some great...

My college library has them and it's very annoying since the librarians are way too lazy to clean the keyboards. I will not clean them myself because there are over 400 computers here and I am surrounded by people who eat in the library (unfortunately including myself, but I clean up). Is...

Edit : Removing my personal theory as I realized they are not tolerated or allowed on these forums.

Hiy there I'm a third year aircraft engineering student and looking for some project ideas. I'm am more mechanically minded so something mechanically or design and test based, how ever I'm open to avionics based things aswell. thanks a lot. Cw

Hello, I am new to this forum and to research itself. I am a high school students that wants to do a physics research project to put on my college resume and to prepare myself for college curriculum. Right now I am a student pilot so i was thinking of doing something with aerodynamics or...

We all are likely familiar with the notion of mathematical maturity, you sort of get an intuition for how to put mathematical ideas into context and make sense out of them as you do/read more and more math. I've noticed that it's much easier for me to pick up a graduate level math text and...

Hello I'm a senior at RHS in Hawaii and I need help in finding a senior project topic and thesis. I am extremely interested in physics and astronomy. Anything that has to do with the sky and beyond deeply interests me. However I do not know what to make a thesis out of those. I am in AP...

Hey, this is my first post, so... Hello everybody! I've been looking into the Collatz conjecture, and like most mathematically minded people, been completely absorbed by it. I'm looking to bounce some ideas off other people, kind of a peer review of a couple things if you will. I'll be the...

Hello. I am new here so I don't really know where my question belongs. Anyway, I hope I am in the right topic. I am not an engineer or anything. I am not even in college yet. :-p I am starting my senior year in september and the thing is, I am specialized in mathematics, (which means the most...

Title basically explains what I'm asking for. It is supposed to be a major design project with complete design, analysis and implementation. Our faculty consistently produces a whole bunch of the dullest projects every year. Suggest something with quite a bit of a wow-factor.

As I understand Energy is finite. This is a problem for me tho as I can see one way to create energy. In fact in my eyes energy is created everyday in are very own solar system. Anyway I want to get some points of view on the subject from others before I make my self a fool because maybe you...

Hello people I am trying to design a birtday presenet for someone and I need your ideas for this. I want to make a LED necklace with a 5mm LED powered by a 3V CR2025 battery. What I can't figure out is where do I put this in to? How can I do the casing and out of which material? I am not a...

Greetings engineers, The question is mentioned in the title. I actually thought of making it as my final year project. So, please guide me descriptively: if that technology exists, how can I get a step towards making it. Any similar, out of the box ideas (I think as above one) will be...

I currently have little experience in programming and would like to improve my skills. The most complex program I've made so far has been a definite integral calculator that uses either right handed or left handed riemann sums to approximate the definite integral (although it fails to be...

I love Astrophysics. I m preparing for competative exams. It includes making a project on any topic. But it should be innovative and student's creativity should reflect from it.I want to do my best.Can anyone suggest some ideas? I thought about 'blackholes',but its all theoretical knowledge I...

I'm working with the algorithmic and algorithm packages in LaTeX and looking for a way to perform some operations on a list in the algorithm.. Any ideas how I can do that? Any advice is highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

heyyy ppl am studyin 3rd year b.e mechanical engg. nd am plannin to do som projects i don't know anythin in it so pleasez guide me seniors brothers frends please help me

Hey Everybody! I am getting a vanity plate and I want it to be NERDY! I'm thinking about something along the lines of math, computer science, or electricity (especially lighting). Must be 7 characters, numbers and/or letters. Some ideas I have: SUDO GO, FF0000, 186KKMS .... Got any...

Anyone know any good websites for date ideas? Im 17 - Living in Cali

I am sick of the burgers and dogs thing. Greasy food makes me feel useless. Any ideas? I am thinking of fish, shellfish, and veggy things. But I would like some simple recipes (or complex depending on how much you like typing) for inspiration. I am sure there are some good ones in the food...

When we study a classical system of distinguishable particles, we use parameters \epsilon_{j} for the energy states and n_{j} for the number of particles in \epsilon_{j}. But clearly, the energy states are not discrete in classical systems. Surely, this is nonsensical. Why are we doing this then?

Research topic ideas "truth in mathematics" I need a research topic for a school seminar I've been attending called truth in mathematics. It can be about a certain person who challenged the norm or discovered something revolutionary (such as Cantor) or even a specific idea dealing with...

If your own (equally nerdy) gf/bf were to propose to you, what would your fantasy be? I'm dating an awesome, awesomely nerdy, physicist (a theorist). We're set on getting married, and we have a deal that we'll both propose to each other. I keep teasing him and telling him that his proposal...

$200 mini-PC GIMME IDEAS! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856176008 LOOK HOW CUTE IT IS! I R WANT. What can I do with a small cheap computer like this? So far, obviously, turning it into a media center or a NAS seems like a good idea, but I was wondering what kind of...

I'm doing a project in my spare time this summer which involves making. My university has over 5,000 students in science, math, and engineering and I've come up with the idea to make and sell 'nerd scout' merit badges. This is much like the Science Scouts which is just a bit of fun nerd culture...

Hello everyone. can anyone help me with project to build that has microcontroller. i need something not very hard and not very very easy.

Hi everyone, I'm having trouble identifying the material used in the oil seal of a hydraulic gear pump. There is a picture of the microstructure of the oil seal with it's hardness. Any ideas? Cheers

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20061822-54.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20" seems like an interesting idea. I don't know how well it will pan out, but I find it interesting that U.S. companies rejected it out-of-hand, whereas companies elsewhere were more receptive. This I have...

Hello, I have a production problem and would welcome any ideas which would make this task easier. I need to fill a 5 meter tube with pellets of 5mm grain size. The inner diameter of the tube is approx 40mm. Here's the problem...I need to fill the tube while the pipe has only a...

I am thinking of using the output frequency of a 555 relaxation oscillator for measurement purposes. The frequency would be related to my measurement signal. How stable are these oscillators at low frequencies? Any personal experiences would help. How stable can you get then with good...

Good day everyone, I am currently doing an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and minoring(specializing) in Instrumentations and Control Systems. I will be entering my final year September 2011, and in order to graduate I have to do a major project on anything involving the...

and even where not, should be ignored. At least in case of conflict. Discuss. In parents' imaginative, somehow at the same time ideal and dismal, worlds there are only engineers, doctors, lawyers and maybe a token economist. Inspired by posts like this I would not even stand too strongly...

I am writing an STSE and of course the last section is the environment section. I suck at this part because sometimes it's hard for me to connect to all categories. So how does a gyroscope relate with the environment? If you know of a small topic on this, please let me know and I can just go...

I have to do a paper ( kind of project ) for 4-6 page on Thermodynamics description of a watt steam engine. i have no idea where to start. It is for a Thermodynamics 1 class. Thanks in advance.

Hello PF Community, I've been browsing this site for...probably years now, and the time has come for me to seek advice! I'm having some difficulty in deciding on an area of research for my capstone (senior) project for college. I'm interested mainly in two things: horses and education. I'm...

Do you have any ideas like something which helps hearing impaired people to communicate with others who don't know sign language, for example a glove, which translates sign language to text which is displayed or even translates it to speech? Any kind of things like that or can be something...

Hello everyone, I'm just a college guy studying mechanical engineering and I'm very much keen to do something in physics. I've done a little search about a starting point from where i could start doing some physics stuff. I've also posted here some weeks before hoping i'd get something solid...

To everyone who is noticing it, its my sincere request to help me in providing some ideas about what I can do. I am actually a first year student of B.E. in Mechanical Engg. There always has been a big interest of mine in Physics; whatever comes up, it just fascinates me, if its Physics. Now I...