The Mark I Project closes with a 15-minute-long group presentation and a written report from your group. The Final Project closes with a final 15-minute-long group presentation of the project in the last week of class, and a written report that is due on the last day of classes. The Mark I and Final Project reports and presentations are group efforts.
Again, all assigned work must be handed in to receive a grade.
Exemplary Final Student Project
Ferrofluid Drops: Studying Ferrofluids with High Speed Video (PDF) (Courtesy of Arun Agarwal, Elizabeth Reid, Ian Brelinsky, and Yun Ji. Used with permission.)
Final Projects from Past Years
- Variable Speed Bullet Photography
- Ballistic Kevlar Tested Under Strobe Light
- A Method of Lens Evaluation
- Glass Breaking Patterns
- Big Water Drops
- An Exploration of Methods for Photographing Flying Insects
- Reciprocity Failure
- Automatic Triggering of Strobe Lamp for High Speed Objects
- The Laser Velocimeter
- Scotchlite and Silhouette Photography
- Streak Photography of Breaking Boards
- An Attempt to Build and Test a Flash Lamp
- Infra-Red Systems for Monitoring Film Development
- Heat Flow Analysis Using the Schlieren Optical System
- PVC Impact Photography
- Optical Triggering and Compression Studies
- Video Astronomy-Celestial Objects Captured with an Ultra Sensitive Video Camera
- Measuring Gravity Using a Pendulum and Streak Photography
- Measuring Water Drop Properties Using Streak and Multiflash Photography Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
- Bullet Velocity Measurement Techniques
- Momentum and Friction of a Pool Table
- Measuring the Velocity of a Bullet using a Ballistic Pendulum
- Photographing the Analemma
- Using Silhouette Photography to Measure the Speed of Water Waves
- Can a Ball Rise Faster than it Falls?
- Electronic Panoramic View
- Determination of Surface Characteristics of a Non-Newtonian Fluid
- Falling Golf Balls
- Terminal Velocity of Large Water Drops
- Measuring the Velocity of Cracks in Glass
- Speed of Bullets
- Creating an Effective Strain GageTrigger for Studies of Breaking Glass
- Muzzle Velocity and Impact Force of a Paintball Charge
- Turn-On Characteristics of an Incandescent Bulb
- The Curve Ball from a Batter's Perspective
- Computerized Exposure Wand for Printing in the Darkroom
- How a BB Breaks a Window
- Effect of Shape on Energy Transfer for an Object Dropped into a Fluid
- A Strobe Color Mixing Wheel
- Effect of Viscosity on Splash Characteristics
- An Improved Method for Fluorescence Photography of Chlorophyll
- Study of Skipping Stones
- High Speed Video Study of Propeller Cavitation
- Using Spectroscopy and Filters to Photograph Camouflaged Subjects
- Analysis of a Pole Vault
- Analysis of a Volleyball Set
- Analysis of Baseball Pitching (Fastball and Curve) using High Speed Video, Image Capture, Motion Analysis
- 3-D Schlieren and High Speed Photography, Including 3-D Position Determination
- Vibration of Hammer Bone in a Cat's Ear
- Film Color Analysis and Spectral Quantification
- Sound-induced Vibration and Breaking of a Wine Glass with Different Fluids
- The DigiStrobe -- a Windows®-based Versatile Strobe Controller
- Photography with Crossed Polarizers for Stress Analysis
- Experimental Investigation of the Jacob's Ladder
- Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Photography of Sand Shrimp
- A Strobe Clock
- Comparative Analysis of Fortepiano and Modern Grand Piano Key Mechanisms
- Failure Modes of Concrete and Plexiglass
- Blowing the Maximal Bubble
- Predicting Op Amp Failure using Schlieren Imaging
- Dynamics of a Spherical Mass in an Air Stream
- Kirlian Photography