FORBIDDEN TERM PAPER TOPICS
The following objects or topics are covered extensively in the lectures and textbook for Physics 105 and Physics 106. You would have difficulty writing a paper on one of these subjects that is truly your own work. It would be just too easy and too tempting to copy my approach, my thoughts, even my words. My lectures and notes should be only part of the reference materials you use for your term paper. Find an object that I do not discuss directly in depth and use similarities between your object and some of mine to identify the physical principles that make your object work.
Air Conditioners
Air Purification
Airplanes
Audio Amplifiers
Automobile Engines
Automobiles
Balloons
Baseball
Basketball
Batteries
Bicycles
Billiards
Bumper Cars
Cameras
Carousels
CD or DVD Players
Centrifuges
Clocks
Computers
Electric Motors
Electrical Power Distribution
Electrical Power Generation
Electronic Air Cleaners
Elevators
Falling Balls
Flashlights
Fluorescent Lamps
Football
Frisbees
Glass
Golf
Heat Pumps
Ice Hockey
Ice Skating
Incandescent Light Bulbs
Knives
Lacrosse
Lasers
Laundry
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetically Levitated Trains
Medical Imaging
Medical Radiation
Microscopes
Microwave Ovens
Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear Weapons
Oil Refineries
Optical Fibers
Paint
Pipe Organs
Plastics
Radio
Ramps
Refrigerators
Rockets
Roller Coasters
Rowing
Rugby
Sailing
Scales
Scuba
Seasons
Seesaws
Skating
Skiing
Soccer
Sunlight
Swimming
Tape Recorders
Telephones
Telescopes
Television
Tennis
The Sea
Thermometers
Thermostats
Vacuum Cleaners
VCRs
Violins
Volleyball
Water Distribution
Water Faucets
Water Purification
Water, Steam, and Ice
Wheels
Wood Stoves
Xerographic Copiers