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Education and outreach

Education and outreach

Physics on the cheap: the secret to the best undergraduate science projects

23 Feb 2022 Robert P Crease
Taken from the February 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Physics on the cheap".

The simplest questions are often the best. Robert P Crease tries to answer one from a physics student in Kenya

a tennis ball bouncing, throwing up chalk dust
Seeking perfection Tennis balls are a low-cost way to explore simple physics concepts, but how do you make a project not just cheap but good too? (Courtesy: iStock/Dobe)
“What are some of the best and cheapest physics undergraduate projects that one can do?” That wa

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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