2024
- Iyanu Akinyemi, Going Unsteady: The Dynamics of Unicycles
- Lily Baker, Examining Polystyrene Nanostructures with Atomic Force Microscopy
- Alex Berggren, Analysis of Temperature’s Effect on Pitch for Wind Instruments
- Karmellah Buttler, Cellular Automata Models of Snow Crystal Growth in Python
- Al Cawley, Studying Solar Coronal Jets
- Aeralyn Flynn, Fixing the Optical Tweezers Experiment
- Nina Hanus, The Aerodynamics of a Rugby Ball
- Eric Johnson, Effects of Luminous Flux and Wavelength on Silicon Solar Cells
- Tali Lansing, BZ Spirals on Curved Surfaces
- Madelyn Noll, Comparing the Drag Force and Drag Coefficient for Lacrosse Balls of Varying Surface Condition
- Augustus (Gus) Thomas, Evaluating Uncertainties in BZ Simulations
- Naz Younus, Crystal Tilt: Phase Shift in Interferometry
2023
- Yohannes Abateneh, Music of the Terevelyan Thermal Rocker
- Sahil Bindal, Building a Piezoelectric Road
- Nick Gaba, Empirical Characterization of Fly Rods and Connections to Casting Behavior
- Amanuel Jissa, The Hysteresis Curve and the Ferromagnetic Domains: Impurity of Crystals
- Abrar Khondker, Using Gravitational Lensing to Estimate Galactic Masses and Dark Matter Content of Samples from the Sloan Lens ACS Survey
- Kelly Kim, The Inharmonicity of a Violin
- Aidan Mason, Creating Stationary Waves in a Reaction-Diffusion-Advection System Using the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
- Kelsey McEwen, Determining the Trajectory of an Anisotropic Particle Around an Optical Nanofiber
- Luke Wilson, Measuring Earth’s Rotation with a Compton Generator
2022
- Whitford (Dean) Brown, Hitting Baseballs: It’s not Rocket Science
- Harrison Clayman, Measuring Resistance Through Temperature
- Daniel Cohen Cobos, Simulating a Die to explore Chaos Theory
- Olivia Green, A Deeper Look into the Weakly Damped Oscillator: Exploring the Properties of Galileo’s Physical Pendulum
- Davis Patterson, The Mechanics of Pole Vaulting
- Raisa Raofa, Investigating Displacement Sensitivity of Michelson Interferometer
- Michael Scarberry, The Chaotic Candle Seesaw
- John Schmidt, An Experimental Determination of the Kinetic Friction Coefficient of a Miniature Pool Table
- Connor Streeter, Corroborating the inside-out formation of disk galaxies at z ≈ 1 through detailed decomposition of their UV and Hα emission spectra
- Sara Wargo, Use of a Nikon DSLR Camera to Evaluate the Effect of Moonlight on Nighttime Visibility
2021
- Bennett Anderson, The Investigation of Germanium Sample Properties
- Shivam Bhasin, Finding the Figure-Eight Solution to the Three-Body Problem for a Double Binary Star System Using Mathematica
- Teague Curless, The Application of Idealized Models to Isolate Dominant Features of a Physical Double Pendulum
- Luke Eisnaugle, Small-Scale Percolation in a Physical Experiment
- William Hilbert, Using a Sensitive Torsion Pendulum to find Newton’s Gravitational Constant
- Jonathan Logan, A Galilean Moon Braking System: Fuel Conservation for a Chemical Spacecraft Entering Jovian Orbit
- Lillian Miller, Oh What a Drag: Determining Drag Force and Drag Coefficient Area for Five Paper Airplane Designs
- Ben Stern, An Experimental Investigation of Slip-Stick Friction in a Block-Spring Earthquake Model
- Melita Wiles, Investigating the fractal dimension of clouds to minimize uncertainty in climate models
- Haoge Yan, Rolling Bottle Experiment
2020 Spring
- Mili Barai, Confirming Newton’s and Stokes’ model of Viscous Torque
- Yuchen Gan, Testing Thermal Conductivity With Angstrom Method
- Dani Halbing, Making the Unpredictable Shot More Predictable: Testing the Effect Panelling and Construction Has on the Predictability of Soccer Ball Flight
- Gentaro Nakata, Examining The Accelerometer of a Smartphone
- Carlos Owusu-Ansah, Surface Ripples as Thermal Excitations
- Handeul Son, The Measurement of the Maximum Deformed Depth of a Can Using Double-Exposure Holographic Techniques
- Henry Whyte, The Duality of Light
2019 Fall
- Megan Fisher, Using a Light Bulb Filament to Verify Power-Temperature Proportionality in an Approximate Blackbody Radiator
- Mattaeus (Matt) Klonowski, Brief Exploration of Superconductivity’s Temperature-dependence
- Craig Klumpp, Measuring the Drag Coefficient of a Swimmer with a Parachute
- Andrew Kunkel, Estimating G Using a Gravitational Torsion Balance
- Huikang (Niall) Qian, Using a laser to delay a particle
- Katherine (Katie) Shideler, Measuring Energy Dissipation Within Various Granular Matter by Means of Hacky Sacking
- Xinchen (Ariel) Xie, Coulomb’s Law and Leakage of Charges
- Yang (Fish) Yu, The Stefan-Boltzmann Law
2019
- Abigail Ambrose, The Effect of Charge and Distance on the Electrostatic Force
- Adam Deeley, Exploring Aerodynamic forces on 3D Printed Propellers
- Benjamin Hessman, Falling into Chaos
- William (Christian) Julius, The So-Called Unpredictable Pitch: The Knuckleball
- Nicholas Rosner, Experimental and Simulated Explorations of Feynman’s Disk Paradox
2018
- Hwan (Michelle) Bae, Transitioning to Chaos in a Simple Mechanical Oscillator
- Daniel Blaikie, Conserving angular momentum of two spinning disks before and after collision
- Carson Bullock, Chaos in a Driven Mechanical Oscillator
- Haidar Esseili, Calculating the Feigenbaum Constants In A Nonlinear RLD Circuit
- Chase Fuller, The Young and Feynman Experiments: Is Light a Wave or a Particle?
- Yuxuan (Kenny) Huang, How does tuned mass damper affect vibration with different viscosity and the mass ratio
- Wan Hang (Vincent) Hui, Properties of Traversable Wormholes in Spacetime
- Ben Jenkins, Flips are Fun: A Study in the Conservation of Angular Momentum of a Non-Rigid Human Body
- James McElroy, Phase Shifts due to Thermal Conductivity
- David Morrow, Using Ferrofluid as a Field Magnet: a Ferrofluid Electromagnetic Generator
- Sam Nash, Characterizing Germanium with the Hall Effect
- Danny Renbaum-Koss, Determining Tuned Mass Damper Efficiency: SHAKE ’N QUAKE
- Asaki Takahashi, Self Design: Sync Test of Non-Cohesion Bead Pile
- Joe Theiss, Measuring Fluid Flow in a T-Junction Pipe with Colored Dye
2017
- Emma Brinton, Testing the Success in Creating Laminar Flow Using a Couette Cell Apparatus
- Gabe Dale-Gau, Stochastic Resonance in a Hysteretic Circuit
- Collin Hendershot, Conservation Laws in Symmetric Systems
- Kyle McNickle, Trapping Polystyrene Spheres Using “Optical Tweezers”
- Jack Mershon, Viability of Heat Expansion Driven Water Propulsion System Through Computational Analysis
- Nathaniel Moore, Mekbuda: Cepheids and Photometry
- Nathaniel Smith, Modeling Solar Sail propulsion in Spacecraft using Xcode Software
- Zane Thornburg, A Quantum Paradox: The Double Slit Experiment
- Avi Vajpeyi, Stokes’ and Newton’s Viscous Drag
- Justine Walker, Building a Passive Robot for Active Learning
2016
- Alex Gould, Acoustic Trapping: A Theoretical Analysis and Computational Implementation
- Herokazu Endo, Proving the Coulomb’s Law and Finding the Coulomb’s Constant from Two Charged Spheres
- Roy Hadfield, Rotational Analogies for Viscous Drag
- Dylan Hamilton, Singing in the Wind: Numerically Solving the Navier-Stokes Equations with Movable Boundary Conditions
- Marc Manheim, Lead Zeppelin: An Investigation into the Feasibility of a Modern Vacuum Balloon
- Robin Morillo, Burning Up: The Effect of Slope Upon Forest Fire Propagation
- Preston Pozderac, Gone With the Wind: An Investigation into the Flight Dynamics of Discs
- Ziyi Sang, Quantum Decoherence – The Emergence of the Classical World from The Quantum World
- Michael Wolff, Measuring Thermal Conductivity by Angstrom’s Method
2015 Spring
- Mitchel Gavin, Investigating the Dynamics of Leidenfrost Droplets
- Laura Grace, An Investigation into the Impact of Particle Mass and Liquid Surface Tension on the Capillary Force Between a Floating Particle and a Nearby Massive Wall
- Carlos Gonzalez, Using Holographic Techniques to Evaluate Deformations of a Stressed Aluminum Can
- Colm Hall Determining Sphere Size Through the Observation of Brownian Motion
- Spencer Kirn Separation of Seyferts and LINER Galaxies Using Eddington Ratio Derived from the Spectral Energy Distribution
- Johanna Malaer Determining the Relation Between the Power Radiated by a Black Body and its Absolute Temperature
- Noah Megregian, Measuring Particle Concentration Through Turbid Suspension
- Calvin Milligan, Chaotic Analysis of a Mechanical Oscillator with Bistable Potential by Poincare Mapping and Phase Space Analysis
- Diego Miramontes Delgado, Measuring the Magnetic Permeability Constant μ0 Using a Current Balance
- Graham Schattgen, How Center of Mass Affects the Acceleration and Final Velocity of a Pinewood Derby Car
- Nate Stone, Examining the Effect of Additional Driving Forces on a Mechanical Oscillator
2014 Fall
- Michael Bush, Impact of the Gravitational Force on Star Formation
- Nathan Johnson, Novel Methods of Avalanche Duration Measurement
- Andrew King-Smith, Creating Laguerre-Gaussian Modes Using a Spatial Light Modulator
- Matthew King-Smith A Nonlinear Electrical Circuit Exhibiting Period Doubling Bifurcation and Chaotic Behavior
- Maggie Lankford Using Double-exposure Holographic Techniques to Evaluate the Deformation of an Aluminum Can Under Stress
- Yash Lohia, The Spin-orbit Interaction of an Electron in a Cylindrical Potential
- Paroma Palchoudhuri,A Study of the Phenomenon of Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
- Catherine Tieman, A Simulation of Social Forces and Collective Motion
- Trent Ziemer, The Development and Numerical Modeling of a Chua Circuit as a Pedagogical Tool
2014
- Shawn Bowman, The Effect of Baseball Seam Height on Magnus Force
- Nicolae Istrate, Determining the Critical Temperature of YBa2Cu3O7Superconductor by Using a Four-point Probe and Type-T Thermocouple
- Brian Maddock, Computer Simulation of the Expansion Mechanism of Osorb®
- Saul Propp, Period Doubling Rate to Chaos in a RLD Circuit
- Jai Ranchod Brownian Motion of Polystyrene Spheres
- Joseph Smith, Chaos and Chance: Simulating a Two-dimensional Die Roll
- Amanda Steinhebel, Investigation of Fine-Tuning through the Variation of Fundamental Constants
- Elliot Wainwright, Particle Size Characterization in Turbid Colloidal Suspensions
2013 Spring
- Evan Hagedorn, Physics of Swimming: Conditions that Affect the Passive Drag on a Swimmer in Streamline Position
- Benjamin Harris, Modeling Earthquake Seismology
- Min Sung Kim, Space-Time Curvature of Unusual Metrics
- Vanessa Logan, Weight and Strength Dependency in Cheerleading Stunts
- Danielle Shepherd, Drivers Start Your Engines: A Comparison of the Forces on Race Cars and Toy Cars
- Prakrit Shrestha, Causal Dynamical Triangulation in Three Dimensions: Tiling Spacetime with Tetrahedrons
- Deepika Sundarraman, The Manipulation of Photon Spatial Wave Function by Polarization and Parity
- Ian Wilson, The Effect of Surface Roughness on the Magnus Force
2012 Fall
- Theresa Albon, Plantar Force Distribution for Increasing Heel Height Within Women’s Shoes
- Lorenzo Dumancas, Stochastic Resonance in a Bistable Mechanical System
- Tyler Rhoades, Exploring Electromagnetic Acceleration of Rail Guns
- Michael-Erik Ronlund, Modeling Brownian Motion with Elastic Collisions
- Syne Salem, Chaos in the Stadium Quantum Billiards
- Matt Schmitthenner, Modeling the Duffing Equation with an Analog Computer
- Philip Wales, Effect of the Orientation of a Magnetic Field on the Resistance of a YBCO Superconductor
2012
- Dan Axe, Observing Sound Waves in a One-dimensional Acoustic Metamaterial
- Andrew Sopher, Force Induced on the Brain by Heading Soccer Balls
- Tom Gilliss, Simulating a Magnetized Bead Pile
- Lily Christman, Modeling Geophysical Waves with Gelatin
- Duncan Price, Shear-Thickening Fluid
- Andrew Blaikie, The Gravitational Potential Between Two Line Segments
- Karl Smith, Querying Qubits Creates Quantum Computers
- Sam Mermall, Three Dimensional Motion Tracking from Stereo Video
2011
- Mohammad Saif Ahmad, Bend It like Magnus: Simulating Soccer Physics
- Patrick Butler, A Brief Study of Spherical Ballistics and the Magnus Effect
- Matt Damon, Shake, Shake, Shake Tacoma
- Norman Israel, Two Dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulation
- Larry Markley, //: Beyond the Plane
- Alyse Marquinez, Splish Splash: Modeling Diving
- Katsuo Maxted, Magnetic Field Complexity for Current-carrying Toroidal Coils
- Margaret Raabe, Comparing the Performance of Baseball Bats
- Kemal Ramic, X-ray structural analysis: Bragg reflection and Laue diagrams
- David Simpson, Optical Observations of SOMS
2010
- Louisa Catalano, Superconductivity
- Roger Klein, Determining the Critical Temperature of a YBa22Cu3O7 Superconductor at Varying Currents Using a Four-Point Probe
- Amanda Logue, A Non-Morphological Method to Isolate Red Spiral Galaxies
- Alex Saines Holography: A Swan of One Color
- Alex Sullivan, Aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil
2009
- Corwin Atwood-Stone, /. 3D
- James Rob Daniels, Separation of Glass Spheres from Silver Coated Glass Spheres
- Alison Huff, Coulomb Balance
- Heather Moore, Verifying Ampere’s Law and Determining the Permeability of Free Space
- Ingrid Thvedt, Indirectly Exploring the Inner Structure of Spherulites
- Mike Winters, Musical Mapping of Chaotic Attractors
2008
- Averell Gatton, Visually Exploring the Einstein Field Equations
- Matthew Gorski, Bohmian Quantum Mechanics and the Finite Square Potential Barrier
- Evan Heidtmann, Simulating Bragg Diffraction to Understand Divergence from Theory in an Introductory Laboratory Experiment
- Frank King, Finding the critical temperature of a YBCO superconductor using a voltage probe.
- Mary Mills, Analyzing Fractal Dimensions and Self-Similarity in Chaotic Light Scattering
- Martha Roseberry, Drip Drop: A Brief Study of the Dripping Faucet
- Henry Timmers, Holographic Interferometry of a Stressed Pop Can
- Mike Zappitello, A Computer Program to Simulate Bird Flocking
- Mark Zimmerman, Modeling Two Dimensional Incompressible Fluid Flow with the Navier Stokes Equations
2007
- Mateo Chinchilla, Modernizing the Cavendish Experiment
- John Gamble, Using toy dynamos to model the sun’s magnetic field
- Howard Henry, Determining the Surface Tension of Water via Light Scattering
- Kirsten Larson, The Effects of Moons on Saturn’s Ring System
- Kelly Patton, Studying the Effects of Filling a Helmholtz Resonator with Spheres
- Joseph Thomas, The Mpemba Effect: Studying the effects of initial temperature, evaporation, and dissolved gasses on the freezing of water
- Mark Wellons, The Stefan-Boltzmann Law
2006
- Mike Davis, The Spring-Block Model of Earthquakes
- Stephen Poprocki, Measuring the surface tension of water from the diffraction pattern of surface ripples
- Jon Rosch, The Effects of Fluid in a Can Rolling Down an Incline
- Sarah Suddendorf, Double Exposure Holography
- Danny Tremblay, Resonance in a piezoelectric material
- Myat Tun, Using light scattering method to find the surface tension of water
- Nathan Utt, Contraction of a Free Falling Liquid Jet
- Lisa May Walker, The random walk of radiation from the sun
2005
- Jeremy Hohertz, Measurement of the diameter of polystyrene spheres using photon correlation spectroscopy
- Andrew Kindschuh, Percolation of a Liquid Through a Porous Solid
- Kathleen McCreary, A Study of the Motion of a Free Falling Shuttlecock
- Katherine Olaksen, Simulation Verifying the Ideal Gas Law
- Danny Shai, Investigation of a Blazed Reflection Grating
- Angie Triplett, Finding the Spin of a Softball Pitch
2004
- Andy Brinck, Compton scattering off an Aluminum target at angles of approximately 180 degrees and 90 degrees
- Austin Carter, Stefan-Boltzmann Law
- Mark Lightfoot, Coulomb Balance
- Saleh Satti, The Perfect Basketball Shot
- Dan Utley, A Study of Vibrating Objects using Time-Average Holographic Interferometry
2003
- Chris Doherty, Collision Investigation
- Katie Frato, Characterization of an Unknown Polymer Using Static and Dynamic Light Scattering
- Nick Harmon, The Compton Effect
- Dave Merriman, Measuring the Critical Temperature of a High Temperature Superconductor
- Tom Spears, The Verdet Constant of Flint Glass
- Brad Thomas, A Look at the critical temperature of a YBa2Cu3O7 ceramic superconductor
- Nithya Venkataraman, The Observation of Crystalline Structures of Evaporated 8-arm Star Polystyrene in Methylcyclohexane
2002
- Clinton Braganza, Building and Testing a Chaotic Jerk Circuit
- Dan Brubaker, A Mechanical Model to Investigate Nonlinear Phase Transitions
- Christie Egnatuk, The Hall Effect
- Nick Hanson, Verification of the Compton Effect
- Ryan Hartschuh, Physics of Punting a Football
- Brad Lignoski, Bicycle Stability: Is the Steering Angle Proporational to the Lean?
- Joshua Martin, A Computational Simulation of the Untying of Knots
- Jeff Moffitt, The Separation Dependence of Viscous Damping Coefficients
- Derek Somogy, Surface Tension Waves
- Becky Urban, Frustrated Total Internal Reflection
2001
- Sara Connolly, Hydraulic Jumps
- Giovanni Cueto, The Rate of Optical Readout on an Optical Disk
- Matt Krivos, Optical Properties of CT-DNA
- Christopher Locke, Phase Transitions of Mixtures of the Nematic Liquid Crystals 5CB and MBBA Using Microscopic Techniques
- David J. Miller, Chaotic Light Scattering in Scatterers with 4 and 8 Exit Modes
- Rob Sweeney, Using Double-Exposure Interferometry to Measure Thermal Expansion in Aluminum
2000
- Lauren Ault, Modeling Airplane Wings
- Andrew Bouchard, Angstrom’s Method of Determining Thermal Conductivity
- Rachel Mary Costello, Internal and External Behavior of a Simulated Bead Pile
- Scott Hughes, Magnetic braking: Finding the effective length over which the eddy currents form
- Amy Lytle, Angstrom’s Method of Measuring Thermal Conductivity
- Christopher Templeman, The Compton Effect
1999
- Geoff Bonvallet, Differential Scanning Calorimetric Study of the Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB
- Sridhar Chandramouli, Hall Coefficient of Germanium
- Sean English, Stephan Boltzmann Law and Boltzmann’s Constant
- Andrew Nowicki, Forces that Govern a Baseball’s Flight Path
- Tim Sir Louis, Holography
1998
- Josh Bozeday, Laser Cavity Analysis
- Dinki Ghosh, Moment of inertia and nutation of a captured gyroscope
- Manon Grugel, Modeling the viscous torque acting on a rotating object
- Andy Kuck, Measurement of the Hall coefficient in a germanium crystal
- Christy Rauch, Chaos in a Driven Nonlinear Electrical Oscillator: Determining Feigenbaum’s Delta
- Paul Rebillot, Determing the Ratio Cp/Cv Using Rucchart’s Method
- Nathan Schiffrik, Examination of Viscous Torque Relationships
- Zakir Thaver, Resonance phenomenon in a forced damped oscillator
- David Walkenhorst, Determining Surface Tension by Light Scattering
- Carrie Williams, Application of photon correlation spectroscopy to a macromolecular system
1997
- Jason Darfus, The Faraday Effect
- Sahibzada Amir Hassan, The Spectrum Analyzer and the Mode Structure of a Laser
- Jodee Jones, Astronaut Momentum
- Jon Keim, Colliding Pulses on a String
- Bryan Prusha, Chaotic Circuit
- Kashif Sayan, Faraday Effect Rotation for Water and Flint Glass
- Woody Shew, Inverted Pendulum
1996
- Erica N. Bramley, The Faraday Effect
- Delaney D. Demay, Measuring the Displacement of A Spider Web Impacted by a Flying Projectile: An Experiment in Biomechanics
- Christopher J. Ditchman, Autocorrelation of Filtered White Noise
- Noah Johnston, Frustrated Total Internal Reflection:Evanascent Waves
- Francesca Mascarenhas, Helmholtz Resonators
- Anindya Mukherjee, Speed of Light
- Ali Rauf, Forced Damped Harmonic Oscillator
- Chris Spillman, Resonance in a Piezoelectric LTZ Ceramic
- Chigomezgo Thindwa, Conservation of Angular Momentum
1995
- Darwin T. Keith-Lucas, The Density of Water
- Ali Özgenç, Motion of a Leaky Pendulum
- Cyrus F. Screwvala, The Chaotic Dynamics of a Bouncing Ball
- Salman Saeed, Stabilization of a Multimode He-Ne Laser Using Thermal Feedback