
Science Fair Ideas - Physics
Investigations / Projects
(Intermediate to Senior entries)
- Air craft flight and wing shape
- Do metals conduct heat equally well?
- How does energy travel from one place to another?
- How
do magnets work?
How are they made?
- How
do rainbows form?
- Can eggs withstand a greater force from one direction
than from others?
- How strong are nylon fishing lines?
- How strong are plastic wraps?
- Which type of light bulb produces the most light?
- Musical instruments and the scientific principles behind
them
- Light reflection and refraction.
- How
do prisms work?
- Design and build a refracting or reflecting telescope.
See our Sun
Gun.
- Do all objects fall at the same speed?
- Compare various fuels and the energy produced
- Cuckoo clocks - how can a period of the pendulum be increased
to keep time accurately?
- What is air
pressure? What is water pressure and its
use
in rockets?
- How do gears make work easier
- Build an efficient solar furnace
- How do different kinds of lenses
bend light?
- How can the intesity of light be measured?
- Which materials can be charged with static
electricity?
- Which battery lasts the longest?
- What affects the pitch and volume of sound?
- How would you measure the velocity of sound?
- The principles and factors effecting the efficiency of
electric
motors
- Factors affecting voltage, amperage, and resistance in
electric
circuits?
- How does Radio work?
- Design and build an automatic recording weather device.
Test it over a period of time. Perhaps a good PICAXE
project?
- Design and build a refracting or reflecting telescope.
See our Sun
Gun.
- Build a model
solar system with levitating planets
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- Heat transfer; convection, radiation and conduction
- Stopping heat loss with insulation
- Renewable energy
- Design and construct a solar panel
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- Design an energy efficient home
- Determine the accuracy of various thermometers. Perhaps
a good PICAXE
project?
- How much heat is required to raise the temperature of
various substances by an equal amount?
- Experimental exploration of the photoelectric effect
- Experimenting with electron diffraction
- Observations of magnetic permeability of different materials
- Seeing magnetism
in a bottle reveal the invisible "strings"
that pull magnets together!
- A study of radiation patterns from different antenna types
- Index of refraction of liquids versus temperature
- Index of refraction of liquids versus amount of additive
- Factors affecting sound propagation
- Factors affecting sound dampening
- Crime
Scene Investigation our award winning CSI
course requires some applications of physics
- A study of infrared qualities of certain solutions. Perhaps
a good PICAXE
project?
- Laser
Wars! - Play a combat game in broad
daylight instead of in the dark! See the Terminator!
- Observational orbit determination of comets, meteors or
other minor planets
- The effect of solar activity on radio propagation
- The identification of elements in the solar and stellar
spectra