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. -- Lou Bloomfield

Air Conditioners	Air Purification	Airplanes	Audio Amplifiers
Automobile Engines	Automobiles	Balloons	Baseball
Batteries	Bicycles	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	Frisbees	Glass	Heat Pumps
Incandescent Light Bulbs	Knives	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	Scales	Scuba
Seesaws	Skating	Sunlight	Swimming
Tape Recorders	Telephones	Telescopes	Television
The Sea	Thermometers	Thermostats	Vacuum Cleaners
Violins	Water Distribution	Water Faucets	Water Purification
Water, Steam, and Ice	Wheels	Woodstoves	Xerographic Copiers