The Department Physics and Astronomy allows high school studentsto completetheir research projects as part of theIntroductory Physics Lab. For more information, please contact either Dr. Dirk Meyer or Mr. Torsten Cleve.
Selection list of possible experimental topics for theses
Here you will find a selection of possible experimental topics for your term paper as a first introduction and preparation. For each topic there is an introduction, a description of the experiment and a photo of the experimental setup:
- Electrical characteristics of different conductors
- Mechanical resonance
- Acoustic waves, sound propagation
- Lens laws, eye lens model
- Microscope
- Grating and prism spectral apparatus
- Spectrophotometry
- Optical polarisation, saccharimetry
- Ionising radiation, X-ray radiation absorption
- Ionising radiation, X-ray diffraction
- Radioactivity
- Spec. heat capacity, enthalpy of evaporation
- Viscosity and surface tension
- Photoelectric effect
- e/m with the thread jet tube
- Franck-Hertz experiment
- Millikan trial
- Hologram
