TERM PAPER TOPICS THAT ARE NOT PERMITTED

The following objects or topics are covered extensively in the lectures and textbook for Physics 104. 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. -- Lou Bloomfield
 

Air Conditioners	Air Purification	Airplanes
Audio Amplifiers	Automobile Engines	Automobiles
Balloons	Baseball	Bicycles
Cameras	Compact Disc Players	Centrifuges
Clocks	Computers	Electric Motors
Electrical Power Distribution	Electrical Power Generation	Elevators
Falling Balls	Flashlights	Fluorescent Lamps
Glass	Heat Pumps	Incandescent Light Bulbs
Knives	Lasers	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetically Levitated Trains	Medical Imaging	Medical Radiation
Microscopes	Microwave Ovens	Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear Weapons	Pipe Organs	Plastics
Radio	Ramps	Refrigerators
Rockets	Roller Coasters	Scales
Seesaws	Sunlight	Tape Recorders
Telescopes	Television	Thermometers
Thermostats	Vacuum Cleaners	Violins
Water Faucets	Water Purification	Water, Steam, and Ice
Wheels	Xerographic Copiers