Physics Lab "Nobel Prizes"

John's "Nobel Prizes" Page

These prizes are awarded to lab groups for exceptional thoughtfulness, creativity or elegance in experimental design or analysis.

To receive an award, you must invent something original that really stands out, but that is directly connected with the lab exercise.

Examples might be:

Coming up with a novel way to reduce or estimate uncertainty.
Improving on our experimental setup in an elegant and practical way.
Designing or doing an extra experiment to test a hypothesis related to the lab.

The judging will be somewhat subjective, and will have to do with how impressed John is by your effort and creativity.
To get a group award, all members of the group must understand the invention - (I may ask any member of the group to explain it.)

Here are this year's Nobel Prize Winners:
(click here to see previous years' winners)

Kylan Roberson, Francisco Serrano, and Lindsay Currier
Physics 4A, Fall 2009

The very creative idea of using a balloon to measure the mass of an object using Archimedes' Principle.