Antenna Rotator Gearing
Students will make observations and inferences about different gear ratios and types of gears. Students will rotate through different stations where they will first make individual observations and record them.
FLOW or NO
“To flow, or not to flow...that is the question?!” The world as we know it is more complex than just solids, liquids and gases. Consider liquids and ask yourself the question...
Simulate Before You Desecrate
Students always want to see the results of their work immediately, and they move on to the next challenge as soon as they solve the problem once.
Stanford Biomimicry Challenge: Bioneer Tower
The goal of this ETP is to expose students to the Biomimicry process of using innovation from nature to solve problems. We will be using AskNature.org to identify a design principal (function in AskNature.org), which will be applied in the construction of a tower.
Velocity and Acceleration
In the Dynamic Design Lab at Stanford, their self-driving race cars collect over 8000 pieces of data every second which comes to almost 1,000,000 pieces of data per lap on the track.
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An Activity You Can't Resist
When thinned to two-dimensions, materials demonstrate unique optical and electrical characteristics that fall under the purview of condensed matter physics. The process of thinning bulk materials is called exfoliation with graphene being the most documented.
Managing Thermal Energy Via Surface Emissivity
The Goodson lab research focuses on analyzing and controlling thermal energy transfer in order to facilitate optimal functioning in electronic products.
Ripples in Spacetime
In 2015, scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves for the first time.
The Challenges of the LIGO Interferometer
Following an introductory lesson on constructive and destructive interference and Young’s double slit experiment, students will be introduced to the history, design, and function of a Michelson interferometer.