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:
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 last year's winners)
Cory Dominguez, 5/08 Physics 4C
Creative ideas regarding the failure of the wave model of light to explain the Photoeletric Effect.
Eden Specht, 12/07 Physics 4A
(The first 2-time Nobel Prize Winner!)
Designing and performing an experiment to test the idea that water pressure should be lower at outside of bend in pipe.