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 Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:28 am
For my Chemistry Class next year, my school is offering a new course called, "Reasearch Topics: Honors Chemistry". Over the summer we're supposed to search for a topic that can be anything science related, but it has to be somewhat new (as in not done before), and can't involve doing anything to humans, or animals.
What do you guys think would be a good high school level physics porject I could do?
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:40 pm
yoyoman1_7 For my Chemistry Class next year, my school is offering a new course called, "Reasearch Topics: Honors Chemistry". Over the summer we're supposed to search for a topic that can be anything science related, but it has to be somewhat new (as in not done before), and can't involve doing anything to humans, or animals. What do you guys think would be a good high school level physics porject I could do? cold fusion. i'm researching that now. i think i'm on to something related to both cold and hot fusion. but for now i'm keeping it secret. i'm thinking about doubling in nuclear enginerring but i just started to think about it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:17 am
It would be extremely difficult to do this, even professionals cannot replicate the energy released in fusion with very low temperatures. Plus it's not original, people have thought of it before, tried and failed. Sure if you do get how to do it there will be a lot of money in it, but there is reason to believe it may even be impossible. So I wouldn't try and attempt something that may be impossible. (At least not for a high school project). question: are you supposed to come up with your own idea? If so, how can you---'research' the topic if it hasn't been done before? Unless you're actually devising your own experiment you will have nothing to show for it. I did something similar in high school, but it was an original investigation. So we had to come up, also, with an original idea (and we also had the summer to find out about it) but the majority of it was not research, mostly because I chose to do the essay in physics, but in my case the real work started when the equipement we ordered arrived. I find that if you're looking for something original then it is logical that there will be few resources about it. So I guess I'm just asking for a little bit of clarification.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:08 am
torasenshie yoyoman1_7 For my Chemistry Class next year, my school is offering a new course called, "Reasearch Topics: Honors Chemistry". Over the summer we're supposed to search for a topic that can be anything science related, but it has to be somewhat new (as in not done before), and can't involve doing anything to humans, or animals. What do you guys think would be a good high school level physics porject I could do? cold fusion. i'm researching that now. i think i'm on to something related to both cold and hot fusion. but for now i'm keeping it secret. i'm thinking about doubling in nuclear enginerring but i just started to think about it.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:57 am
cold fusion.
u wont have much luck with that.
the particles need to be heated to incredible temperatures, several times the heat of the sun so that they fuse and release energy. its not like they just stick together and release energy, or we would not exist as the world would have blown up long ago xp . plus, its probably too complex for a high school level project confused .
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:04 pm
yeah....I don't think we have the resources in our poor high school to do that, and like other people said...its not original and it's way too hard.
To Power outage: Yes, it has to be somewhat original, and we're supposed to do experiments (our own) and research on the topic.
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:47 am
yoyoman1_7 For my Chemistry Class next year, my school is offering a new course called, "Reasearch Topics: Honors Chemistry". Over the summer we're supposed to search for a topic that can be anything science related, but it has to be somewhat new (as in not done before), and can't involve doing anything to humans, or animals. What do you guys think would be a good high school level physics porject I could do? Test the validity of Heim Theory - get a nice 50 Tesla Magnetic Field and put a spinning conductor above it. If it works, you'll be recognised by the entire Scientific Community as an uncoming Star, even if you don't quite make it into the annuals of History...
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:25 am
I think what you need to do, is kinda sit down and think what you'd like to figure out for yourself. Once you put it like that, I think we've had almost the exact same project. My idea was: investigating the sound of breaking glass. So I basically broke a bunch of glasses, recorded the sound, then analyzed it. I did very well on it actually.
There are many things you can do. For references I looked at past extended essays done in phsyics, and some guy found the optimal aerodynamic shape, he did this using basic equipement. He basically dropped various objects down a water tank (slow speed, easily documentable) and I forget whether he filmed it or took periodic pictures. Then he anlyzed the lines of turbulant vs. laminar flow.
I know one guy made the optimal wind tunel, and this other guy looked at the best breast-stroke for swimmers (so he looked at it again, aerodynamically). I don't know if I could come up with some topics off the top of my head, but I think these are the lines you need to think along. And I found that research did nothing, you had to sit down and think about it. haha it was fun actually. It was like my first somewhat scientific paper.
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:30 am
yeah...I was thinking something with solar power maybe? or just something with circuits...
It's not due for about a year, and I have two months to do some basic research on it. I think I'm safe.
Also, I'm not very good with Electric fields. How would I make one like Rugged said?
And uh....what is the "Heim Theory"?
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:14 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:04 pm
....The Heim theory seems a bit over my head.....
Thanks for the website.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:55 pm
Hmmm...chemistry, you say? Two words: environmental sciences. There's a magnitude of things you can research anywhere in the environmental sciences...soils, plants, nutrient transfer vs. energy transfer, solar power, wind power, chemical toxins, chemical waste removal...pretty much anything.
Not only is there a wealth of research topics, but there are a LOT of answers and questions out there. Global warming, new fuel sources, weather patterns (upper-atmosphere mixing), as well as something as basic as soil sciences. Not to mention that these are things you can actually DO in a high school class, unlike cold fusion.
And no, this was not a plug so that I could get someone else interested in the environmental sciences...why do you ask? stare
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:18 pm
This might be coming in entirely too late to count for anything but I think you shouldn't overlook meta scientific inquiries. Looking at the science of science and how people go about looking for answers to questions and so forth. Not only is this sort of area intrinsically important to anyone who i looking for an answer to a question but it is actually surprisingly easy to collect data on and do actual quantitative analysis of. You could do surveys asking people where they go to answer questions of various types, how often they find answers from each source, where they found the answer to their last such question... etc. Actually though it is often times much easier to simply collect free data that is just sort of laying around for the taking. People ask questions on these forums all the time and the data for the number frequency and speed of the responses to those questions are conveniently located in the upper right hand of each post. Or you could look on google and measure the change of the number of estimated indexed sites for a number of topics over time or.... you can see what I mean about there being a lot of easily collected data for this kind of thing.
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:02 pm
I think that some interesting stuff you could do is materials based. Showing the chemical reactions of Zinc plating and stuff like that. It has bases in both physics and chemistry.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:01 pm
paradigmwind This might be coming in entirely too late to count for anything but I think you shouldn't overlook meta scientific inquiries. Looking at the science of science and how people go about looking for answers to questions and so forth. Not only is this sort of area intrinsically important to anyone who i looking for an answer to a question but it is actually surprisingly easy to collect data on and do actual quantitative analysis of. You could do surveys asking people where they go to answer questions of various types, how often they find answers from each source, where they found the answer to their last such question... etc. Actually though it is often times much easier to simply collect free data that is just sort of laying around for the taking. People ask questions on these forums all the time and the data for the number frequency and speed of the responses to those questions are conveniently located in the upper right hand of each post. Or you could look on google and measure the change of the number of estimated indexed sites for a number of topics over time or.... you can see what I mean about there being a lot of easily collected data for this kind of thing. I never thought of that.
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