Physics Lab "Nobel Prizes"

Physics "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 and is directly connected with the lab exercise.

Examples might be:

Coming up with a novel way to reduce or estimate uncertainty.
Improving on the 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:

(L to R) Matt Sampson, Matt McNussen, Richela Maeda, Matt Bloesch, Jordi Gischler, Tristan McVay, Rosemary Simmons, Ari Kaplan
Physics 4C, Spring 2012

Suggesting a graph of pressure vs time as a better way to assess thermal equilibrium in the absolute zero experiment.

Patrick Condon
Physics 2A, Fall 2011

Going beyond the normal torque lab requirements by creatively hypothesizing about the evolutionary reasons for the attachment points of human muscles.

(click here to see previous years' winners)