hi everybody, i am a physics teacher, working in high school and i need
a simple i dea for a project that is suitable for high school and has
somthing to do with my major.
thanx
No, you are not a Physics teacher.
Perhaps you are talking about physical education in which case you might
qualify as a cheerleader looking forward to graduating as a Hooters Girl.
However, since you are posting to SED, I would suggest you look into
magnetic levitation. I built one at school once using the bits and pieces
available in the Physics lab along with an LDR, light bulb and a 2N3055 with
what might have been a 2N2905 and some resistors.
Ooooooh and a chuffing big heatsink.
If you get it right then you can make an eight inch nail with a cork on its
end hover in mid air. Warwick University were doing this sort of stuff with
ball bearings and PDP11s but they were poofs back in those days. However you
are guaranteed that your first formers will be suitably unimpressed.
If you get bored you can plug all the oscillators into each other along with
some oscilloscopes plus an amplifier and loudspeaker and go totally Brian
Eno.
DNA