Physics Project Ideas

A Magnifying Discovery | Levitating Magnets: Floating Isn't Just for Magicians | Centripetal Force | Magnets and Charge | Slip Sliding Away: Experimenting with Friction | Balancing the Load: The See-Saw as a Simple Machine | What Goes Up, Must Come Down: Conduct Galileo's Famous Falling Objects Experiment | Swing Low: Investigate the Motion of a Pendulum | Outer Space, The Silent Frontier: An Experiment on Sound Waves | Spinning Colors: How Do Primary Colors Combine to Make New Colors? | Give It a Lift with a Lever | The James Webb Space Telescope's Amazing Multiple Mirrors and Sunshield | Investigate the 'Death' of an Orange: How is Rate of Heat Loss Based on the Surrounding Temperature? | Build a Gauss Rifle! | Build a Raft Powered by Surface Tension | The Physics of Follow-Through | What's the Fastest Way to Cool a Soda? | Supercooling Water and Snap Freezing | How the Strength of a Magnet Varies with Temperature | How Far Can You Kick (or Throw, or Hit) a Ball? | Solid Motor Rocket Propulsion | Bouncing Balls: Measure the Rebound Rating | Forensics: How Does It Matter? Measure the Spatter! | How Long Will My Sleepy Yo-yo Sleep? | An Uplifting Project—The Buoyancy of Balloons | Stealthy Shapes: How to Make an Aircraft Invisible to Radar | Come One, Come All! Explore the Effect of Light on the Speed of the Amazing Rotating Radiometer! | Does the Base Stealer Take the Base from the Catcher Or the Pitcher? | How High Can You Throw a Baseball? a Tennis Ball? a Football? a Golf Ball? | The Joly Photometer: Measuring Light Intensity Using the Inverse Square Law | Roller Coaster Marbles: How Much Height to Loop the Loop? | Spare-Change Circus: Walking Coins on a (Vertical!) 'High Wire' | How Quickly Does a Tennis Ball Lose Its Bounce? | Extreme Sounds: Lessons in a Noisy World | Technicolor Shadows: Lessons in Light and Color | How Does Color Affect Heating by Absorption of Light? | Measuring the Surface Tension of Water | Balls Bouncing Off of Surfaces | Skating and Angular Momentum | Going the Distance: Launch Angles & Projectile Trajectory | Distance and Constant Acceleration | How Fast Can You Shoot a Hockey Puck? | The Science of Spin: A Baseball Pendulum | On the Rebound: The Height Limits and Linearity of Bouncy Balls | Science Fair CSI: Can You Predict the Spatter? | Golf Clubs, Loft Angle, and Distance: The Science of Hitting | Bouncing Balls: Why Is the Rebound Rating < 1? | Measuring Sugar Content of a Liquid with a Laser Pointer | Using a Laser to Measure the Speed of Light in Gelatin | Light Energy & Frequency | Using a Laser Pointer to Measure the Data Track Spacing on CDs and DVDs | Investigating the 'Mpemba Effect': Can Hot Water Freeze Faster than Cold Water? | Rainbow Fire | What is the Maximum Intermediate Height for a Siphon? | Distance and Speed of Rolling Objects Measured from Video Recordings | Frequency-Dependent Sound Absorption | Absorption of Radiant Energy by Different Colors | HAMing It Up with the Astronauts | Football Punting: Distance vs. Hang-time | Measuring the Speed of 'Light' with a Microwave Oven | Roller Coaster Marbles: Converting Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy |