Project Definition and 1000 Threads

So basically we work on small molecules for anti-cancer therapy in our lab (one aspect). The problem is that the molecules we're working on look promising in-vitro, but have absolutely horrendous issues with things like water solubility, being too lipophilic, and more likely than not, will be...

On project Eureka the following problem was posted: You and a friend like running, but your friend is much faster than you. So you can run together, you two have arranged the following system. You both start out at the beginning of a path and run at constant speeds. Your friend runs to the...

Homework Statement Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ... By considering the terms in the Fibonacci sequence whose values do not exceed four million...

I wasn't exactly sure whether this belongs in the mechanical or electrical section. /watch?v=VsGhllSgpLU&feature=related That was the video I saw that made me want to start a project. This would be my first, and I haven't taken physics or anything yet, so I don't know some a lot of things...

Hi I am an applied math/physics undergrad, I am interested in developing/inventing a new technology that will benefit for the military. Is it ok if I propose a research project that relates to military in my university? I want to point out that I don't want to be involve in killing human...

I skip a couple of video tutorials on Microsoft's Project 2010 , and come across a little problem because they all specify the project cost as an essential part that is excel-computed into a single file before sending to someone sitting up...above. I wonder how the software project cost is...

Hey there guys! I haven't been on this forum a while, been busy with school work and assessments, but still catching up on astronomical developments and physical advancements (Higgs Boson around the corner soon?!) Anyways, as the title suggests, I'm definitely entering a local science fair...

Peltier Project: 50% PWM --> alternate circuit switching for increased performance? Hi all, I have a project where I am making a drink cooler device using four peltier devices which can draw up to 30amps or 24 volts each. we are considering battery power (pretty ridiculous but anyway..) and...

Searched but didn't see a topic created on it, so here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wOKBMA2QA What does everyone think of this? Some Links:

So, I am an undergraduate physics student, and unfortunately I was not able to obtain a national physics internship for this summer. However, I was wondering if it is still possible to work on a project with a professor, without the funding. If this is possible, how would I go about to...

Homework Statement The question states that a 3 stage amplifier needs to be designed with a 2W rms to an 8ohm load. the amplifier must consist of a pre amp stage and a power stage. (using only bjt's) Homework Equations Up till now we have learned about small signal model, DC biasing, ac...

For a project I am looking into the possibility for a wheeled vehicle to be powered by a ducted fan. At this stage in my process I am only certain that the vehicle will weigh about 200 pounds and will be powered by a 2 horsepower motor at 2000 rpm and operate on low friction surfaces. I am...

Hi, I'm currently in the progress of preparing gantt charts for a project, timelines etc and microsoft project is an OK tool. Can anyone reccomend some visually appealing or more user friendly project management software? I'm working on a 200 room mine site expansion and although its not big I...

Ok so me and a my group are writing a hangman program in mips, we came up with the idea of dividing the program to 3 subroutines 1 that reads and writes to a file, one that picks a random word from a word bank in the text file i guess, and one that does the rest like getting the word replacing...

I need ideas for my graduation project , help please ! I'm an aerospace engineering student in BC's year ... and I need an idea for my graduation project ... any idea please ! :confused:

Hi, (I'm not native in English, sorry for if bad English) Some background: As a programmer I got more and more distance with physics. I bought a US x-ray tube off ebay to step to a hobby project that naturally keeps me on with refreshing physics knowledge. After the tube came, I jumped...

Greetings. My friends and I are working on a "mechanical to electrical energy" project, and we're facing a huge problem with the basic design of our system. Basically, we wanted to make use of a system where a person would 'step on' a pedal or a tile, whatever you may want to call it, which...

Can anyone help me with finding good ideas ( or direct me to any useful websites /pages ) for Power system engineering projects !? Suggestions are highly needed , ASAP ! my appreciation in advance to you .

Top down visual of near live wind trails in the US. Really neat! http://hint.fm/wind/ Now we just need it overlayed on google maps!

I am a junior mathematics major at a relatively unknown liberal arts college planning to apply to Ph.D. programs in pure math next year. I have a near-perfect math GPA and a pretty solid background in terms of my coursework, including every intermediate and advanced-level pure math course...

Hello all, I am an engineering student currently undertaking a project at univeristy. It involves the sorting of 4 different balls of which I have deduced how to sort 2 of them leaving just 2 types of balls to sort... The remaining two are of identical size, 10mm in radius, and are...

Homework Statement Uhmm i just started this project where i have to make a picture using functions on a graphing calcutator I am doing a kitty kat so far I am stuck on two things once is making a sideways elipse inside the eye so the cat looks more realistic another is getting rid of the lines...

Hello my name is geoffrey Philippe and i am a senior at frankford high school. I am working on a senior project in which i would have to interview some one working in the career I am looking to get into in the future, i chose electrical engineering. I was wondering if i could interview an...

Hey guys, I have a good job lined up for me after I graduate with a good company, i am currently 8 months away from graduation. I have a diffcult desicion to make about my final year project. I have been offered projects from two companies and one of them is the one i start working for at the...

Hello, I am trying to solve a calculus problem, and do not know quite how to approach it. I am doing a project on a GPS track, I have mapped out an area with GPS, the GPX file gives speed, lat, long, time and some other data. I am comparing the area under the curve of MPH(Y axis) and...

I am recently doing a sac, which i have to write a report on the circular motions, bascially, i don't really know how to do the analysis. Please outline of the things that i need to know or have to be aware, Examples provided will be appreciated=)

Hi there! I am an engineering student and I have a project to do. It involves creating a heating/cooling system for our shoes. Well the instructoor asked us to choose a heating cool system so I chose this topic (assuming it would reach some where where I would get a patent for my hard work). So...

I am currently doing a senior physics experiment where we are stopping a computer fan (with steel glued on to the blades) with an electromagnet, and measuring the time it takes to stop at varied resistances (using a rheostat). I also need to calculate the angular and linear momentum and...

Help with part of my Linear Algebra project - "r-similitudes" Homework Statement Definition: An "r-similitude" on ℝ² is an affine mapping f:ℝ²→ℝ² such that, for all x and y in ℝ², ǁf(x)-f(y)ǁ = rǁx-yǁ (where ǁ·ǁ denotes the Euclidean distance in ℝ²) Let ABC be an equilateral triangle such...

Given that certain nullspace is spanned by a vector v, what would be the procedure to project out the v component from certain vector u? Perhaps with the Gram-Schmidt process of orthonormalization by updating v = v - proj(u, v) where proj(u, v) = (<u, v>/<u, u>)u, and <u, v> denotes the...

Hi, I plan to either attend summer class or do some research this summer between my first and second undergraduate year in physics. I live in France and cannot travel to US for some ecological reasons. Let's consider that my budget is unlimited, that my main interest is pure theoretical...

ℝHomework Statement I'm a 2nd year undergraduate student, so I suppose many users here won't find this too difficult, but I've had some issues with the following questions and, of course, any help would be very much appreciated: (i) Prove f: V→W is affine (where V and W are real vector space)...

Please help me with my school project! I'm in AP Physics in High School right now, and the teacher just assigned our class to design a locker alarm. It must turn on when the locker is opened and turn off when the locker is closed. However, there's a restriction: the alarm must turn on when 2...

Hi all, I am a second semester junior mechanical engineering student. I am taking a class titled "Mechanical Engineering Design." The class has a design project where we pick a problem and design a solution. He does not want something a freshman engineering student can design, but rather, a...

I am doing a science project on the photo electric effect (the experiment is the correlation between frequency, intensity, and electrons released.) My one problem is that I need some way to measure the free electrons. I was thinking a simple circuit with an anode plate and a cathode plate with...

Please point me a way to a mathematical project! Hello everybody, As a part of my Maths program I need to write an essay of about 25-30 pages. Game theory is the main topics and I now need a direction to analyse in game theory using mathematical method such as linear algebra. As I don't have...

This will be my capstone project for my BS in Computer Engineering... I would like to design an Electric Motorcycle which has the ability to interface with an Android based tablet. The ECU would be most likely an Arduino or ARM based processor which would output information to an Android...

On my senior project, I've figured out everything I need to measure all the parameters I needed EXCEPT force. I know that I need to use strain gauges, and I've used them in my instruments class with Labview and a DAQ. While I'm still using Labview, I'm now using an Arduino so things are a little...

Can help me with any idea what topic that suitable for 3 person in Mechanical Final Year Project? I am more with "design" and "built" mechanical parts.

Hello everyone this is my first post on PhysicsForums I am in my second year of electronic systems engineering degree and I have to choose a final year project. I am really enjoying the modules on RF engineering and electromagnetics, especially electromagnetics is just too interesting...

Hello everyone this is my first post on PhysicsForums I am in my second year of electronic systems engineering degree and I have to choose a final year project. I am really enjoying the modules on RF engineering and electromagnetics, especially electromagnetics is just too interesting...

I'm currently working on a project for projectile motion and my teacher wants to see us launch a round ball about marble(maybe smaller) sized into a ring clamp on a retort stand somewhere around the room. She suggest we all use "gravity" (a simple ramp that let's a ball slide down and shoot up)...

Hello all Friends, I am taking my undergraduate, majoring in Electrical Engineering, concentration in Control It takes 10 semester to pass, 1 semester=4months. Well it might be rare for you. And I am in 8th semester doing my internship as one of the criteria in the curriculum. In this...

Homework Statement Its easier to see if I link the problem: http://faculty.olympic.edu/jjbrown/documents/ENGR%20111/ENGR%20111%20Project%201%202011.pdf The Attempt at a Solution I don't have a problem finding the answers, but the other steps we need to show are giving me a hard time...

1.If you have a wind tunnel, a tubing that goes from a large opening, to a smaller opening, with the larger opening facing the wind, will the wind speed be more out the smaller end since its being compressed? 2.Is there a way to calculate/guesstimate the difference in wind speed by the...

Hi, I am currently doing a project to design a lamp and am really interested in using physics to gain a perfectly balanced design. I have come across this diagram... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Lamp_2_counter_weight.PNG I just want to clarify a couple of things before I...

So, i have decided to make this wireless power transmission project and it is not through mutual induction but microwave transmission. I know , Microwave transmission ain't feasible and stuff and it has been discussed and all here, but i just want to make a small prototype , like a meter or...

Hi For my final year university project, I have an array of 9 hall effect current sensors producing a maximum current output of 25mA each. They're producing an analog output which I need to convert into digital signals so I can process them using an evaluation board and C++ code. At the...

Homework Statement Ok, so I'm doing this science fair project on tennis ball bounce hieght, and I have to find the force that it hits the ground with. I'm trying to do this mathematically, because I can't record the time accurately in the actual experiment. The mass of the ball is 0.0567kg...