What to build for high school project?

[ratiugo]

I'm doing a high school physics project on particle accelerators. I know it's not realistic to build an actual particle accelerator, but I'd love to be able to build some model of something that works to go along with the powerpoint. I saw a video of someone using a ping pong ball with conductive paint and copper tape to accelerate the ping pong ball, and I wanted to do something of that sort but couldn't find instructions. If anyone knows of something I could build and has instructions that would be awesome.

 

[Vodkacannon]

This seems like an awesome idea because it looks like a particle accelerator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqKCblEluqM&list=PLDCAA2EC4D6A6BA85

I assume that those are just standard neodymium magnetic balls.

 

[Bobbywhy]

Here's a demonstration of the Bernoulli Effect:

 

[bs15benny]

How about using 'gaussian gun', it is about metal balls accelerates due to the attractions of magnetic forces, maybe it is the same as Vodkacannon's idea.

http://www.miniscience.com/kits/Gauss_Rifle/ <- maybe this link can help you to get the idea.

 

[ratiugo]

This is the video I initially saw:

After some research, I believe it's basically a bowl with aluminum or copper tape strips, and a conductive ping pong ball. Applying a high voltage creates the electric field. Is there a simple way to build something like this without taking apart a TV monitor?

 

[mrspeedybob]

Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_multiplier