UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
Academic Year |
Name |
Title |
2014-2015 | Dominic Bugni | The process of Building and calibrating a Custom 3D Printer |
Robert Dietrich | Counting Cosmic Ray Events at High Altitudes | |
Peter Gagliardi | Calibration of an LCD Interface to Control a Spatial Light Modulator for Holigraphic Optical Trapping | |
Peter Malchow | Resistivity measurements of thin gold films | |
Gillian McDonald | Design and Contruction of a Time-of-Flight Laser Rangefinder for Golfers | |
Kelly McFarland | Defying Gravity: Magnetic Levitation Using Negative Feeback | |
Nathaniel Shonkwiler | Controlling Flow in Microfluidic Channels using Electric Fields | |
Jon Tarpinian | Creation of a Scanning Thermal Camera from an Infrared Sensor | |
2013-2014 | Danica Alvarez | UWRF Neutron Monitor-Using Moderators to Increase Neutron Detection Efficiency |
Francis Caruso |
Phase Shifting Interferometry, A Powerful Measurement Tool |
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Troy Cran |
Testing the Moduli of Elasticity of Aluminum, Zinc-Plated Steel, Steel, and 40% Glass Fiber Polypropylene and Comparing Them to Cost |
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Rory Jones |
Fabrication of the Piezoelectric Driver for a Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
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Samantha Oswald |
Proton Beam Therapy Using Geant4 |
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Andrew Puyleart |
Designing a Pre-Amplifier Circuit for a Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
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Matt Schmitt |
Leidenfrost Ratchets and the Forces that Drive Them |
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Ranee Skinner |
Free Energy: Solar Cells from Recycled Materials |
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2012-2013 | Zach Anderson |
Properties of a Potato Cannon |
Wes Barnes |
Using CERS to Investigate a Possible Relationship Between Position and Radius of an Optically Trapped Aerosol Droplet |
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Ben Beaudoin |
A Control and Sensing System for a Hard Sphere Scattering Apparatus |
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Noah Biros |
Measurement of Resistance and Temperature for a High-Temperature Superconductor |
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Tyler Capek |
Creating a Pulsed Laser for Thin Film Deposition Applications |
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Emily Dvorak |
A Review of the Science of Neutron Monitors |
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Charlotte Evans |
Temperature Dependence of Zinc Oxide Etching in Benzoic Acid |
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Tyler Jacobson |
Testing a New Piston Head Design in an Internal-Combustion Engine |
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Andrew Klitzke |
Design and Construction of a Control Interface for Computer-Numeric Controlled Laser Machining |
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Alesha Radke |
Examination of T-Sensor Microfludic Device Construction |
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Brendan Reed |
Producing Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence |
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Laura Rogers |
Mechanical Properties of Polylactic Acid |
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William Ryan |
Digital Control System of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
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Josh Anderson |
Velocity Temperature Dependence for Water on a Leidenfrost Rachet |
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Scott Clark |
Computer Control of an AC Servo Driven X-Y Table for Laser Machining |
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Alex Jewel |
Acoustic Levitation by Means of Ultrasonic Transducers |
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Michael McAllister |
Chaos in Chua's Circuit |
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James Rust |
The Impact of Tempurature on the Radiance of Ultraviolet LEDs Using Water and Air Cooling |
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Amanda Steck |
The Study of Aerosol Droplets Using Optical Trapping and CERS |
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Kathleen Vignali |
Obtaining Optimum Solar Panel Efficiency |
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Matthew Wolf |
Pressure Dependence of Ramon Spectroscopy of Liquid Water |
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2010-2011 | James Allen |
NASCAR Drafting in a Wind Tunnel |
Paul Bartlett |
Wireless Energy Transfer |
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2009-2010 | Cadie Boyung |
Light Emitting Bubbles |
Jeremy Clounch |
Investigating Quicksand |
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Matt Cady |
Using Physics to Ruin a Child's Toy |
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Lee Massey |
Synchronization of Multiple Metronomes within a System Containing a Non-driven Physics Pendulum |
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Tyler Campbell |
Determining the Expansion Rate of the Universe |
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Samual McCutcheon |
Study of Chaotic Behavior in a Simple Electronic Circuit |
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Nicholas Iverson |
Design and Construction of a Thermal Energy Storage Device |
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Aaron Lemmer |
Construction of a Diode-Pumped 532nm ND:YVO4 Laser with Cr:YAG Passive Q-switching and Intracavity KTP Frequency Doubling |
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Scott Denger |
Biomechanics of Distance Running |
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Mitch Andrejka |
Investigation of the Ground Reaction Force of a Jump using Various Landing Techniques |
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Elizabeth Denkinger |
Time Efficiency Comparison between Induction and Electric Cooktops |
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Michael Fitzl |
Using Automated Methods to Analyze Dry Concrete for Proper Air Entrainment |
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Forest Kirschbaum |
IceCube - Giant Thermometer |
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Seth Matucheski |
Parameter Space Optimization of Design for Coil and Permanent Magnet Options for a Generator for a Human Powered Electric Bicycle |
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Shawntel Murphy |
Motion of Optically Trapped Salt Water Droplets |
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Abby Riddick |
Implementation of LED Flasher Data to Increase Simulation Accuracy for the IceCube Project |
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Luke Titus |
Coupled Oscillator Models of Dark Energy |
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Craig Witte |
Determination of the Superconducting Critical Temperature for YBa2Cu3O7-x |
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2008-2009 | Jay Anderson |
The Mcgyan Process: A New Way of Making Biodiesel |
Sean Wolf |
Using Optical Contrast to Spot Graphene |
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Luke Hafstad |
Implementation of a 4-bit Decimation-in-Time Radix-2 FFT on an FPGA |
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Devin Underwood |
Building an Iron Cored High Temperature Superconducting Solenoid |
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Sarah Woods |
Efficient Non-radiative Mid-range Wireless Power Transfer |
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Matt Blodgett |
Investigating IceTop Detector Behavior using Tagged Muons |
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Matt Brotzler |
Theoretically Determining the color Change of a Liquid Crystal |
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Jesse Goebel |
Wing Tip Vortex Reduction with the Introduction of Winglets |
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David Johnson |
Using Energy Density and Thickness to Find Efficient Laser Cutting Settings |
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Bridget Onan |
Acoustical Resonators and the Marimba |
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Patrick Powers |
Fractals and Their Effects on Quantum Mechanics |
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2006-2007 |
Charles Bardel |
Electronic Proximity Aid for the Blind: A Vibrating Electronic Proximity Belt |
Ann Deml |
The Zeeman Effect |
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Travis Getzie |
Designing and Building a Micro-Raman Spectrometer |
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Dan Musekamp |
The Movement of a Chaotic Waterwheel |
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John O'Brien-Schroeder |
Adaptive Optics and Image Enhancement through Deconvolution |
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Francis Vorasane |
The Tilt-A-Whirl: Unpredictable and Possibly Chaotic |
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Katherine Ward |
Biological Propagation of Electrical Signals Through Artificial Neurological Tissue |
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2006-2007 |
Scott DeWolf |
Measuring Reverberant Sound Fields with a 3D Microphone Array |
Reime Jahr |
Chaotic Motion of the Tabletop Tilt-A-Whirl |
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Tom Johnson |
Measuring Cosmic Ray Air Showers |
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Dan Kopchinski |
PZT Driver Circuit for a Single-bubble Sonoluminescence Experiment |
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Amanda Lundgren |
Frequency Spectra Comparison of Instruments Within the Same Family |
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Amanda Pittman |
An Introduction to Ellipsometry and the Theory of its Operation |
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Allen Riley |
Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Cell Construction and Observed Responses to Applied Voltages |
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Justin Smith |
Autonomous Control of a Balance Beam |
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Mike Sykora |
Optical Clarity Characterization of Poly(methyl methacrylate) |
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Mike Tate |
Quantitative Verification of the Which-Way Experiment Using Single Photons |
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Josh Wynveen |
It is Chaos!: Rotational Dynamics of a Magnetic Dipole in a Time-Varying Magnetic Field |
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2005-2006 |
Luke Chambers |
Building a MagnetoHydrodynamic Propulsion System |
Alex Dix |
Single Bubble Sonoluminescence |
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Jon Eisch |
Design and Construction of a Time-Synchronized Portable Muon Tagger |
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Patrick Fillmore |
Developing Experiments in Electron Optics |
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Heather Lunn |
Demonstrating Chaotic Motion with a Tabletop Tilt-a-Whirl |
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Stephen Taubel |
No-Bounce Cart-Making Internal Thermal Energy Visible |
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Jeremy Tilsen |
Undergraduate Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
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Tracy Mayer |
A Twist on Light: A Faraday Rotation Experiment |
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Joe Exner |
Modeling of a Homemade Cosmic Ray Telescope |
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Anthony Landberg |
Study of a Standing Wave Thermoacoustic Refrigerator |
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Nick Olsen |
The Rijke Tube Phenomenon |
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Bill Kalk |
Determining Planck's Constant Through LED Characteristics |
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Kyle Hoegh |
Water Bottle Analysis Using a DMA |
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Jesse Ahlert |
Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion |
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Jeff Herfindal |
Laser Communication Under Raman-Nath Conditions |
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Ashton Flinders |
Properties of an Activated Energy System: A Magnetic Pendulum |
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Robert Wicklund |
Stereoscopic Imaging and Projection Using the Cross-Polarization Technique |
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Mike Majer |
Telescope Angular Resolution Quantification Using Double Stars |
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Alan Kruizenga |
PET Optical Properties |
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Ryan Bruvold |
Microscopic Displacements of a Wood Block Under Static Friction |
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2003-2004 |
Arriety Lowell |
The Motion of a Magnetic Pendulum |
Jackie Meyer |
Investigation of Reflectance Wavelengths due to the Change in Incident Angle of Light on Cholesteric Liquid Crystals |
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Angela Thomley |
The Theory of Liquid Crystals Viewed at Varying Angles |
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2002-2003 |
Andrew Hoerneman |
An Experiment with a Boltzmann Machine |
Joe Ott |
A Forced Rayleigh Scattering Experiment Intended to Measure the Mass Diffusion Coefficient of a Methyl Red Solution |
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Kyle Jacobsen |
Mechanical Properties of Polyethylene Films Containing Spherulites |
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Brendan J. (BJ) Poore |
Finding Problems with Freshmen Wheels |
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Brandon Rice |
Optical Trap Characterization with a Two Axis Microscope |
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Regina Schindel |
A Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer |
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2001-2002 |
Jeremy Licht |
Explaining the Near Field Sound Radiated by a Trident Tuning Fork |
Casey D. Keller |
Holography in the High School Classroom |
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Thomas Walch |
Homemade Cosmic Ray Detection |
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Matthew N. Bauer |
Moving Metal with Electrons: [Rail] Guns in the Classroom |
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Brad Booher |
Effects of Various Elements on Gas Based Muon Detectors |
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Michael Brown |
Intracavity Frequency Doubled Nd:YVO4/KTP Green Laser |
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Tony Dabruzzi |
Designing, Building, and Instrumenting a Gas Turbine Engine |
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Joshua A. Knutson |
The Relative Breaking Strength of Knots |
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Emily Lombard |
Characterization of Particle Motion in an Optical Trap |
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Steven McKinley |
Thin-Film Strain Gage |
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Justin C. Peskar |
Design and Implementation of a Standing Wave Thermoacoustic Refrigerator |
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2000-2001 |
Peter Bohacek |
Design and Construction of a Panoramic Pinhole Camera |
Jesse Gavin |
Pyro-Smith |
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Matt Haase |
Physics of the Tractor Pull Sled |
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Brian Louks |
Siegmund: the Simulation and Analysis Software Package for the AMANDA Project |
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Dwight Luhman |
The Effects of Slanted Floors on Granular Flows in Two-Dimensional Silos |
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Aaron A. Parr |
Wavelet Signal Analysis |
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Dominic Schroepfer |
Growing Large Crystals of Pentacene and Tetracene |
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1999-2000 |
Lisa Bates |
Laboratory Reproduction of a Mirage Using Sugar Water |
Maya Arnott |
DDP Image Processing on CCD Images |
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Tim Beach |
Pressure Waves in the Atmosphere |
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Greg Fuchs |
Vibrating, Traveling Strings |
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1998-1999 |
Christina Nieman |
Fourier Transforms on Apertures |
1997-1998 |
Dan Hagstrom |
Galloping Gertie and a Look at Resonance in Suspension Bridges |
William Tireman |
Laser Spectroscopy of the Rubidium D1 Transition |
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Scott Jensen |
Mechanical Properties of Polymers using Nanotechnology |
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Brian J. Zadler |
Automating Data Acquisition Using Labtech Software |
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Lisa Raney |
Simulating the Earth's Magnetic Field: How Close Have We Come? |
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Philip Borawski |
Visible Light Interferometry in the Measurement of the Angular Separation of Binary Stars |
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Joshua Kalk |
Surface Diffusion Below the Roughening Temperature |
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1996-1997 |
Phil Goebel |
The Design and Implemantation of a Three State Logic System |
Ryan Martin |
Testing the Dispersion Theory of Slinky Whistlers |
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Chris Beskar |
Polonium Powered Planes and a Less Apocalyptic Look at Radioisotopes as Turbine Engine Heat Elements |
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1995-1996 |
Daniel J. Bruski |
Analysis of an Electric Guitar Signal |
Erika Koenig |
Cameras: A Unit for the High School Physics Class |
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Mike Holter |
Entropy in Colloidal Mixtures |
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Vincent Reis |
Active Noise Control: Study of Transverse Waves Through a Steel Ribbon |
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Nick Bennig |
A First Look at Digital Filters |
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Kim Kolkin |
Nonlinear Motion of a Wire: Representation with Poincare Diagrams |
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Craig Arendt |
An Undistorted View of Relativity |
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John A Stifter |
An Overview of Scattering Theories |
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Lyle Thomas |
The Physics of the Jump Shot |
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Jeffrey A. Malinowski |
Piezoelectric Engines Analysis |
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Wade Oberpriller |
Determination of the Thickness of Two Thin, Non-Homogeneous Plates with Ultrasonic Transducers |
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1994-1995 |
Lawrence O. Imm |
Physical Parameters Concerning Nonlinear Resonance |
Paul J. Costanzo |
Development of Courseware to Teach Graphical Analysis |
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Dale T. Zuzek |
The Biomechanics of Pole Vaulting |
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Maia Davis Pulse |
Compression: Dechirping of Time Reversed Slinky Whistlers |
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Matthew E. Gehrke |
Measurement of the Velocity of Water in a Rectangular Pipe using a Lloyd's Mirror Diffraction Pattern |
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Alicia Amundson |
Multiple Rainbows from a Single Drop of Water |
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Joe Garner |
Mechanical Simulation of a Bowed String |
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Andrew Gerrish |
Up From the Ashes |
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Lance Kuhn |
High Resolution Surface Profiling Using Optical Interferometry |
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Steven K. Manfred |
A Star is Unborn: The Schizoid Supernova |
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Dawn Luehrs |
Fiber Optics |
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1993-1994 |
Douglas Lindee |
Ballistics of a .54 Caliber Bullet |
James Hall |
Program to Analyze X-ray Diffraction Data |
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Thomas Weseli |
Magnetic Heat Engine |
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Jeffrey J. Guertin |
The Big Grid: How it Came to Be |
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Igor Anshakov |
Post-Chernobyl Environmental Monitoring |
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Nha Dinh |
Phase Sensitive Detector |
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Jay Meyer |
Surround Sound Revealed |
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Jason Goray |
Selection of Appropriate Reconstruction Filters Using Neural Networks |
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Brent Schwab |
The Theory of Digital Audio with Emphasis on Interpolation |
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Debbie Freitag |
Colorimetry |
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Kimberly J. Staiger |
Using the Fast Fourier Transform to Determine the Normal Frequencies of a Loaded String |
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Timothy M. Dietrich |
Gravity Measurements with the Worden Gravity Meter |
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Peter J. Close |
Boomerang Flight Theory |
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Mark Oman |
Thermodynamics of a Rubber Band |
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Mark Anderson |
Design and Analysis of a Stirling Cycle Engine |
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Julie Rauwolf |
Brachytherapy |
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Sue Sindelar |
The Radon Risk |
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Steve Danczyk |
Elastic Scattering of Alpha Particles by Gold Nuclei |
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Dele Edwin |
Obune Matrix Study of Electron Motion Propagating Through a Rectangular Barrier in a One-Dimensional Crystal |
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Ron Hanestad |
Automobile Deceleration and Collision |
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David Hansen |
The Terminator |
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Julie Johnson |
Gas Dynamics |
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1991-1992 |
Christine L. Hegenbarth |
Application of Stokes' Law in Determining the Size Distribution of Soil Particles: Comparison of Two Methods |
Michael J. Narlock |
Theoretical and Experimental Foundations for the Buckminsterfullerene |
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Paul Sundby |
Designing and Building a Barton's Pendulums Apparatus |
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Joel Harper |
Designing and Building a Liquid Nitrogen Cloud Chamber |
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Glenn C. Foster |
Investigation of the Elastic Pendulum |
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Jim Lewandowski |
Designing and Building an Electric Quadrupole Trap for Macroscopic Particles |
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Ken Close |
Designing and Building a Chronograph |
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Gregory Fall |
Designing and Building a Chaos Demonstrator |
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Robert Cooper |
Investigation of Contaminant Activity Levels of Cs-137 in Samples Obtained from Cs-137/Ba-137 Miniature Radionuclide Generators |
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1990-1991 |
Jeff Brenizer |
Determination of the Power of Low Temperature Differential Stirling Engines |
Brent Niccum |
Basic Flow Properties of Materials for Evaluation and Engineering |
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Michael Webb |
Harmonics in Flexible Bars |
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Richard Schmitt |
Black Holes: The Battle with Gravity |
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Jon Graetz |
Making a Smoke Detector into an Electronic Weather Vane |
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June Vande Vegt |
Boltzmann's Constant from the Temperature of a Diode |
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Matt Miller |
Turbulence Measurements in a Fluid Using a Laser Doppler Anemometer |
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Lowell McCann |
Do You SPO's it Resonates? Or Finding the Surface Plasmon Frequency in Silver Films |
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1989-1990 |
Bruce A. Webster |
Conservation of Momentum Error Analysis |
Scott Richardson |
Nonlinear Oscillators |
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Jonathan Strain |
Aerodynamic Drag on an Arrow |
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Tim Teasdale |
The Atwood Smart Pulley to Study Rocket Motion |
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Yvette Guenther |
Sound Diffraction by CSH Vents |
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Mark Howley |
Computer Generated Diffraction Patterns and the Quest for a "Visible" Fourier Transform |
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Brian Wilson |
Impact Detection Using the Piezoelectric Effect |
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Phil Foltz |
Bandgap Determination for Silicon and Germanium |
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Bob Soderberg |
CO2 Bubble Formation: Beer Physics |
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George Lundquist |
An Experiment to Investigate the Properties of a Thermocouple |
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Jeff Saueressig |
Altitude Prediction for Model Rockets |
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Joel Marvin |
Probability Distribution of Time Intervals Between Radioactive Decay Events |
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1988-1989 |
Gerritt Duxbury |
Development of the Foil |
Dexter St. George |
The Extension of Euler's Method |
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1987-1988 |
Carol A. Annett |
The Design of Experiments |
David C. Yahnke |
Video Enhancement for Physics in Education |
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Steve C. Hammer |
D.C. Power Supply Design |
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Troy Simon |
Eavesdropping with a Laser |
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Mark Schroeder |
Experiment to Measure the After-Effect of Thin Films |
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Matthew Smith |
An Investigation of the Mossbauer Effect |
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Jeff Crowder |
Fresnel Zone Plate |
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Kent Fox |
The Evolution of Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment |
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Neal Schumacher |
Physical Properties of Heat Treated Steel |
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Gary T. Holm |
A Real-Life Computer Application: Approximating Unsolvable Differential Equations |
|
Mary E. Noles |
Using a Multipurpose Loading Device to Analyze Some Aspects of a Cantilever Beam |
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Paul McConville |
Cold Fusion |
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Ed.C. Miniatt |
Nondestructive Testing |
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James Erik Hendrickson |
Magnetic Susceptibility of a High Tc Superconducting Ceramic |
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Sandy Zmuda |
Radon Detection and Measurement |
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1986-1987 |
Nien van Nguyen |
Signal Detection Using Analytic Signal Magnitude |
1985-1986 |
Romona Gunter |
Fluorocarbons |
Todd Loren Braman |
My Digital to Analog Interfacing Senior Project |
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Allen J. Miller |
Acoustic Absorbtion Coefficients and Their Measurement |
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Dan Strom |
Percent Yield Calibration of the Gamma-Ray Scintillation Spectrometer |
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Steve Hoffman |
Chemically Etching ITO on Glass Plates |
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Bill Herron |
Doppler Radar / Distance Radar |
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Christian Nielsen |
Compact Disc Player Optics and the Birefringence Problem |