PShardlow writes "I have lately been asked to propose two projects for a 1st year undergraduate guidance laboratory in the summer term this year. These are projects that a pair of students will spend 36 hours working on, and as such can be quite in-depth. A good project would include substance they can build, existent they can measure, and individual they can calculate. earlier projects have be mentioned cloud chambers, a Jacobs ladder, a laser Doppler speed camera, laser sound detection, smoke rings, and carnal random number generators. This is an fitness to really inspire students into the joy that can be exploratory physics — but it only works if we demonstrators propose interesting projects. So I ask the Slashdot locality for suggestions of fascinating projects to do, things that are related to today's physics problems but could feasibly be completed by a pair of first-year undergraduates in 72 man hours."

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