Final project Instruction Slides
Previous Projects (with slides & videos)
- List of Projects (Spring 2020) - virtual
- List of Projects (Fall 2020) - virtual
- List of Projects (Winter 2021) - virtual
- List of Projects (Spring 2021) - virtual
- List of Projects (Fall 2021) - in-person
- List of Projects (Winter 2022) - hybrid
- List of Projects (Spring 2022) - in-person
- List of Projects (Summer 2022) - in-person
- List of Projects (Fall 2022) - in-person
Lab inventory
- Lab inventory (materials in the lab)
What is your own motion project?
You have worked so hard for the first few weeks of 4AL. You have mastered three key ingredients, step by step.
The last three weeks will be dedicated to your project. You have to design your experiment, and apply your working knowledge that you have developed. The projects can be based on the following topics.
- How to design your own experiment from scratch based on modern technology -- Arduino.
- How to analyze data using modern programming language -- Python.
- How to apply fundamental physics laws such as Newton's law, and predict motion as a function of time.
The last three weeks will be dedicated to your project. You have to design your experiment, and apply your working knowledge that you have developed. The projects can be based on the following topics.
- Projectile motion based projects
- Conservation of momentum/energy
- Oscillation based projects
- Biomechanics/Human body motion projects
- Neuroscience based projects
- Friction
- Rotation based projects
Examples of Possible Projects
- Projectile motion based projects
- Conservation of momentum/energy
- Oscillation based projects
- Human Body motion projects
- Friction
- Identify friction coefficient for unknown surfaces. (Slides)
- Rotation based projects
Good Examples of Presentations
Here are several good examples of the oral presentations from the Summer 2019 Session A.
Example Projects and Project Proposal
The project proposal should be uploaded as a PDF to Gradescope. It should contain an
- introduction section
- materials required for your project
- physics prediction and analysis
- timeline for your project
Oral Presentations
You are going to make an oral presentation on Week 10.
Please post your google Slides by the midnight before your presentation day to your group's folder in the lab google drive.
Please post your google Slides by the midnight before your presentation day to your group's folder in the lab google drive.
- Please refer some of the slides in the "Examples of possible projects" to plan how your presentation should be organized.
- Each group will have around 10 slides that should contain the following information
- Title/Authors (with majors and pictures)
- Introduction: Motivation/Hypothesis
- Methods that includes
- Experimental setup with pictures
- Data taking protocols
- Data analysis
- Discussion and Conclusions
- Evaluation of significance
- Conclusions
- Future prospects
- Acknowledgements
- References
- The entire presentation should be 10-15 minutes long.
- Your presentation will be followed by a 5 minute Q&A session.
- The file name of your Google slide should be like
- Group#_ShortTitle.gslide
- For example: Group3_Momentum_Conservation.glide.
Presentation Evaluation
- Each student will be evaluating the presentations from other groups. Download and complete the slides below and submit on Gradescope by deadline.
- Peer Review
- Check Gradescope for deadline.
Final Report
The final group report is due on Friday of Finals Week at 11:59 pm.
- You are welcome to share the data and analysis with your group members.
- There will be another document each person must submit individually telling your TA what each person did to ensure that every member of the group contributed properly.
- Use an Appendix section to describe your contributions by each team member.
- [OPTIONAL] To make your report look more professional, here is a link to a template. This template is written in LaTeX, which is the documentation method used in professional physics review letters. It may be recommended by your TA to write your report in LaTeX, otherwise write it in 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 within the project. Complete the following evaluation of your group individually.
- Group Participation Evaluation Due on Friday of 10th Week at 11:59 pm. You can use slides. If you prefer writing it in document format, stick to a two page limit.
- Convert it to PDF file, and upload to Gradescope.