What is your own project?
You will have worked hard in the prior units developing an understanding of:
Namely, you'd better satisfy the following conditions:
- How to design experiment/device from scratch to perform tasks or measure results, based on modern technology -- Arduino.
- How to analyze data/results by modern programming language -- Python.
- How to apply basic physics laws to predict physical phenomena or create a functional device.
Namely, you'd better satisfy the following conditions:
- You utilize Arduino
- You predict some outcome and analyze your data or results by Python, then compare it with prediction. If you make an engineering type device you will use Python to show how your device succeeded or failed
- It is related to 4BL materials specifically sound, circuits, or optics
Examples of Possible Projects
Example Presentations for Previous Quarters
Other possible project ideas:
- Online Projects from Summer 2020 A
- Online Projects from Spring 2020
- AM Radio
- Guitar Tuning using Specific Angles
- How Temperature and Humidity Affects the Speed of Sound
- Photoresistor Color Detector
- FFT Lock
- Magnetic Communication
- Laser Measurements
- Morse Code Generator and Receiver
Other possible project ideas:
- Sound
- Automatic hearing test
- Analysis of human voice, birds singing, music instruments
- Circuits
- Development of active band-pass filter
- Design and construct AM radio
- Complete understanding the Arduino circuits
- EKG / EMG / EEG detection with Arduino
- Van De Graaff generator
- Thermal dissipation of electronics components
- Example of Arduino projects on Web
- Youtube Videos
- Random Lists
Oral Presentations
Your project will culminate in an oral presentation (unless otherwise stated by your TA) during the the last week of class.
Please read the instruction below to prepare your presentation.
- You must submit a working copy of your Slides to Gradescope by the Friday before presentations for TA feedback before your presentation
- You must also submit a copy of your slides to Gradescope
- Your presentation will be graded with the following rubric in mind: Presentation Rubric
Please read the instruction below to prepare your presentation.
- Each group will have 10-12 minutes for their presentation, followed by a few minutes of Q&A.
- The total length should be around 12-15 slides.
- A Template is available here. Please use this file as a reference to how your presentation should be organized. You are welcome to embellish it however in any way you would like.
- Make sure that any videos of your experiment in your slides are working from any computer. You may have to copy your video file into the same folder.
Presentation Evaluation
- Each student will be evaluating the other groups' presentations. Download and complete this link.
- Student presentation evaluation
- You will submit this to Gradescope by the end of the lab day when presentations are shown.
Final Report
The final report is due on Saturday after finals (or Saturday after the last class during summer) at 11:59 pm.
- The final report be a group report in the form of a formal report
- To make your report look more professional, consider using this template. This template is written in LaTeX, which is the documentation method used in professional physics review letters. It may be required by your specific TA to write your report in LaTeX, but if not MS Word or Google Docs (or equivalent), single-space is OK.
- LaTeX Template
- Convert it to PDF file, and upload to GradeScope.
- We want to ensure that all group members participated fairly within the project. Complete the following evaluation of your group individually. You will submit it via Gradescope
- Group Member Evaluation
- Evaluation Due the Sunday after the report is submitted at 11:59 pm.