Write physics extended essay (IB)

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around generating ideas for a physics extended essay (EE) for the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. Participants explore potential topics and research questions, emphasizing the need for originality and the ability to conduct experiments within the essay's framework.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Homework-related

Main Points Raised

  • One participant seeks unique and experimental ideas for their physics EE, expressing a desire to avoid common topics.
  • Participants mention specific areas of interest, including waves, kinematics, and thermodynamics.
  • Another participant suggests exploring the relationship between thermodynamics and information theory, referencing a popular physics book.
  • A suggestion is made to create a spectrograph to measure the sun's light, which could involve analyzing emission and absorption lines.
  • The original poster expresses interest in the spectrograph idea while noting the limitation of not being able to perform experiments related to information theory.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the need for experimental topics, but multiple competing ideas are presented without consensus on a single approach.

Contextual Notes

Participants discuss the technical requirements of the IB program, indicating a need for depth in the chosen topics. There is an emphasis on the necessity of conducting experiments, which may limit some proposed ideas.

Who May Find This Useful

IB students seeking guidance on selecting topics for their physics extended essays, particularly those interested in experimental physics and original research questions.

alireza1992
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Hi.
I'm supposed to write an extended essay in physics (I'm currently studying in the last year of IB). I haven't chosen any research question or a topic for my essay. I would appreciate if you could give me some ideas. I searched about it but all the ideas I found are so common and everybody chooses them. I want to get an A so I need to have a new and nice idea. And something in which I can preform an experiment, and then write about the result and analyze them in about 4000 words. Pleas please and please ... help me!
 
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And by the way, the areas of physics which I like to do my EE from are waves and, Kinematic, and thermodynamic.
 
alireza1992 said:
And by the way, the areas of physics which I like to do my EE from are waves and, Kinematic, and thermodynamic.

How technical does it need to be? What is IB?
 
DragonPetter said:
How technical does it need to be? What is IB?

Pre university!
IB is an international program in which all courses are being thought in english and it goes a bit deeper into the subjects compared to other high school programs. I just mentioned that it for IB so if there are other IB students having the same question could use this post as well.
:)
But the level is pre university.
 
You could write about the relationship between thermodynamics and information theory.

There's a great popular physics book on the subject called "Decoding the Universe"
 
alireza1992, Since you need to do experiments for your research project I suggest making a spectrograph to measure the sun's light. You will find emission lines and absorption lines, both which tell you about the sun's characteristics. A simple prism will get you started, but a high quality diffraction grating spectrometer would be best. Measure, analyze, and then report! Good luck.
 
I like the idea with spectrogpraph. The idea with the information theory is good as well but I cannot preform any experiment in that one.
I put the spectrograph idea in consideration :)
Thanks.
 

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