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