12a org meeting
for april 8:
- problems for sections, need solution handouts: text problems
8.8
8.12
8.36
8.66
- Need up-to-date grade sheet by Wed, all work up through April 4. Presumably MQ2 is graded...
- everyone work through MQ3 by Wed.
- produce MQ3 solutions by Friday
- assign project lead contacts
- who's got the chain? Set up force sensor?
- staffing lab room for projects?
- project milestones
- project wiki pages
- who wants eval's?
- booking scibox for finals week.
Projects for 12a, 2014
Feb 18 2014, CWS
Newton's beads links:
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If Biggins is correct, then there should be a measurable variation in the normal force at the bead launch rate, and (easier I suspect) the time integral of the normal force (steady state) should have an additional term of alpha*m*v where m is mass transferred in that interval. In other words there is an additional impulse of alpha*(mv). We should look for this as well as the ac component, which we can average using period folding once rate is known. We can get bead rate from video motion capture or acoustic pickup, see below.
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Feb 23 2014
extension ideas:
funnel at top to establish launch boundary conditions
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