Apparatus Competition -- Summer 2002

125th Meeting of the AAPT

Boise State University


Introductory Laboratory Awards:

2nd Place Tie ($600 each)

      Black Box:  Mass-Spring Laboratory Experiment
            J.C. Amato
            R.E. Williams
            E.J. Galvez

      Archimedes:  A Black Box Mechanics Laboratory
            E.J. Galvez
            R.E. Williams
            J.C. Amato

3rd Place ($200)
      Sound Construction:  A Doppler Effect Experiment
            Robert Bishop


Best High School Entry ($100):

      A Kaleidoscope Using Polarization Colors
            Bill Franklin


Low Cost Awards ($100 each):

      A Different Kind of DC Motor
            Judy Doyle
            Jerry Pepera

      Making Visible the Light Cone
            Marc Kossover

      Low Cost Fan Cart with "Duelling Fan Units" and Controller Box
            Robert A. Morse
            John L. Makous

      Square Carbon-Paper Resistors
            P.J. Ouseph

      Apparatus for Demonstration of Apparent Weightlessness
            Alexander Sapozhnikovl
            Roman Ya. Kezerashvili



Introductory Laboratory Entries:

Ø     Black Box:  Mass-Spring Laboratory Experiment
            J.C. Amato
            R.E. Williams
            E.J. Galvez

Ø     Sound Construction:  A Doppler Effect Experiment
            Robert Bishop

Ø     A Different Kind of DC Motor
            Judy Doyle
            Jerry Pepera

Ø     Radioactive Decay and Daughter Build-up Simulation
            Alice Flarend
            Richard Flarend

Ø     Archimedes:  A Black Box Mechanics Laboratory
            E.J. Galvez
            R.E. Williams
            J.C. Amato

Ø     "Push-Me Pull-You" Fan Cart Controller
            Robert Morse

Ø     Electric Fields and Equipotential Lines
            P.J. Ouseph

Ø     Atomic Force Microscope Model
            Matthew T. Smith


Low Cost Entries:

Ø     Black Box:  Mass-Spring Laboratory Experiment
            J.C. Amato
            R.E. Williams
            E.J. Galvez

Ø     Open and Closed Standing Wave Resonance Chambers
            Machele Cable

Ø     Lecture Size Pith Balls
            Machele Cable

Ø     A Different Kind of DC Motor
            Judy Doyle
            Jerry Pepera

Ø     Radioactive Decay and Daughter Build-up Simulation
            Alice Flarend
            Richard Flarend

Ø     Double-Source Interference Model
            Richard Flarend

Ø     A Kaleidoscope Using Polarization Colors
            Bill Franklin

Ø     Archimedes:  A Black Box Mechanics Laboratory
            E.J. Galvez
            R.E. Williams
            J.C. Amato

Ø     Making Visible the Light Cone
            Marc Kossover

Ø     Low Cost Collision Carts
            John Makous

Ø     Low Cost Fan Cart with "Duelling Fan Units" and Controller Box
            Robert A. Morse
            John L. Makous

Ø     Square Carbon-Paper Resistors
            P.J. Ouseph

Ø     Apparatus for Demonstration of Apparent Weightlessness
            Alexander Sapozhnikovl
            Roman Ya. Kezerashvili

Ø     The Lead Bell Project
            Clarence Bennett


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