Projects & Practices in Physics course_planning:183_projects

course_planning:183_projects:f16_project_1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-01-08T20:09:35+00:00

Project 1: Part A: Zevo toy boats You are a group of scientists working for Zevo™ Toy Company a subsidiary of the Carver Media Group. A mysteriously large shipment of discontinued toy boats (which can neither turn nor change speed) has been delivered to Zevo for a classified project. The manuals for the boats have been long lost which is problematic as you have been tasked with determining the speed of these boats as they are going to be shipped out soon as part of the project EverReady. At y…

course_planning:183_projects:f16_project_12b

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-01-08T20:16:10+00:00

Project 12: Part A: Hanging a sign Your team has been hired to oversee the hanging of a new marquee outside the historic Alamo Drafthouse cinema in Austin, TX. The design calls for the marquee (mass, $200\,{\rm kg}$) to hang from the middle of a steel pole (length, $2.5\,{\rm m}$$1000\,{\rm kg}$$1\,{\rm cm}$$1\,{\rm m}$$30,000\,{\rm N}$$0.2\,{\rm m}$$0.1\,{\rm m}$$0.35\,{\rm m}$$0.07\,{\rm m}$$0.75$$10\,{\rm kg}$

course_planning:183_projects:f17_project_15_solution

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-12-07T00:48:59+00:00

Project 14: Part B: Sharks! Your team is traveling across the Pacific Ocean on a tug boat, and you get a call that someone's boat has broken down, leaving them surrounded by great white sharks. You have a catapult with a steel ball (10 kg) loaded in it, and clay balls (20 kg each). The catapult is 8 m long, has a mass of 5 kg, and rotates about its center. The strongest person on your team is able to throw the clay balls at a speed of 47 m/s. Your mission is to save the people on the stranded b…

course_planning:183_projects:f17_project_15

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-26T15:06:08+00:00

Project 16: Police Chase! You and your team have been up to no good! After news of the team’s involvement in the boar-tiger apocalypse conspiracy, a warrant has been put out for your arrest. Officers Richard “Big Rich” Hallstein and “Jolly Johannes” Pollanen – notorious for helping cover up the boar-tiger crisis – are put on the case.

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-09-05T18:01:56+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-09-13T16:18:37+00:00

Project 2: Learning goals * Predict the motion of a single-particle system executing constant velocity or constant acceleration motion using appropriate representations (this includes verbal, graphical, diagrammatic, mathematical, and computational representations).$\Delta\vec{p}=\vec{F}\,\Delta t$$d\vec{p}=\vec{F}\,dt$$\vec{F}_{net} = m\:\vec{a} = \dfrac{\Delta\vec{p}}{\Delta t}$

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-08T14:21:28+00:00

Project 3: Part A: Geostationary orbit The Carver Media Group is planning the launch of a new communications satellite. Elliot Carver (head of Carver Media Group) is concerned about the launch. This is a $200,000,000 endeavor. In particular, he is worried about the orbital speed necessary to maintain the satellite's geostationary orbit (and if that depends on the launch mass). You were hired as an engineer on the launch team. Carver has asked that you allay his concerns. $15\times10^3$

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_4

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-02-01T18:39:16+00:00

Project 4: Part A: Pinball wizard designer Project 4a: Learning issues * Non-constant forces * Impulse and obtaining impulse from a graph * $\Delta p = \int_{t_i}^{t_f} \vec{F}_{net} \; dt$ * Free-body Diagrams * Interpreting sinusoidal graph * Constant acceleration - kinematic equations${\rm m}/{\rm s}$${\rm cm}$${\rm kg}\cdot{\rm m}/{\rm s}$${\rm kg}$$d$$k_{s,i}$$2.3\times10^{-10}$$4.7\times10^{-2}$$3.5\times10^{-10}$$3.8\times10^{-2}$$4.3\times10^{-10}$$1.2\times10^{-2}$

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_5

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-02-06T14:04:43+00:00

Project 5: Part A: Escape from Korath Project 5: Learning issues * Constant acceleration and kinematic equations * Frictional Force * Rotated Frames (Forces on an inclined plane) * Free body diagrams Your team has navigated to the bottom of the cliff successfully but are confronted by an incline followed by a tunnel that then leads to the dimensional gate. Your amazing piece of tech (turning out to be very useful) indicates that the dimensional gate is at the end of the tunnel and mus…

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_6

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-02-14T17:49:17+00:00

Project 6: Part A: Six Flags over East Lansing Project 6: Learning issues * Forces and Acceleration during Circular Motion * Stress and Strain and Young’s Modulus * Free-body Diagrams * Interpreting Stress/Strain graphs The city of East Lansing is trying to attract more summer tourists. They've decided to replace much of the abandoned buildings on Grand River with an amusement park. They've hired the Tyrell Corporation to build it. You and your team recently graduated from MSU engin…

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_7

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-02-21T17:17:09+00:00

Project 7: Part A: The Leaning Tower of P-cubed Project 7A: Learning issues * Choosing an appropriate system * Work * Conservation of energy Universal Studios in association with the Carver Media Group has created a travelling version of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. All of the rides in this new amusement park are all either animal or solar powered in order to be more environmentally friendly. You and your colleagues have been asked by your employer (CMG) to travel with the par…

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_8

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-02-28T17:33:07+00:00

Project 8: Part A: Launching a communications probe Project 8A: Learning issues * Gravitational potential energy * Spring potential energy * Energy conservation * Momentum conservation You and your team are engineers that have been contracted by Elliot Carver of the Carver Media Group Network (CMGN) to plan the launch of their new $m_t$$m_p$$k_p$$5.3\times10^9$$k_L$$8.3\times10^8$

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_9

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-03-12T16:37:08+00:00

Project 9: Part A: Post-Apocalypse Now Project 9A: Learning issues * Energy Conservation * Thermal Energy * Specific Heat Capacity * Thermal Equilibrium Henry Gupta has returned. It turns out he is a pretty bad dude. Gupta hid a remote communication device on the satellite that was activated. It launched many nuclear missiles across the world scorching most of the Earth. $\times 10^{3}\,{\rm kg/m^{3}}$$\times 10^{3}\,{\rm J/kg/K}$$250\,{\rm K}$

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_10

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-03-21T16:39:25+00:00

Project 10: Part A: Engineering a movie stunt Project 10A: Learning issues * Rotational and Translational Kinetic Energy * Local Gravitational Potential Energy * Moment of Inertia * Conservation of Energy * Relationship between Linear and Angular Velocity$M_{\rm sled} = 1500\,{\rm kg}$$$\omega_{reel} = \dfrac{M_{sled}}{m_{reel}}\dfrac{v_{sled}}{R_{reel}}$$

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-11-15T17:39:42+00:00

Project 11: Part A: Saving a probe Project 11A: Learning issues * Judicious choice of system * Recognizing boundaries of a collision * Momentum conservation * Energy conservation A few weeks have passed since your brush with zombie death and your group of post apocalyptic survivors have combined with a group of scientists stationed at the Thunderdome. Your multitalented group has a plan to return Earth to its former glory and it involves obtaining an AI device called HAL. HAL, if …

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_12

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-04-09T21:46:47+00:00

Project 12: Part A: You spin me right round Project 12: Learning issues * Angular Momentum * Choosing an appropriate system * Rotational Kinetic Energy * Conservation of Momentum * Conservation of Angular Momentum Last time on post-apocalypse now: Your group of scientists still at the Thunderdome, have retrieved the satellite from outer space and begun work on putting together an alternative power generator based on a merry-go-round ride from a playground. Suddenly a wormhole open…

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_13

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-04-18T16:34:33+00:00

Project 13: Part A: Showdown at boar tiger corral Project 13A: Learning issues * Judicious choice of system * Recognizing boundaries of a collision * Linear Momentum Conservation * Angular Momentum Conservation * Analysis of Energy Movement$\mathrm{m}$$\mathrm{m}$$\mathrm{m}$$\mathrm{cm}$$\mathrm{kg/m^3}$$\mathrm{m}$$\mathrm{m/s}$$m = 200 kg$$v=1600\,{\rm m/s}$$m_{\rm ball}=400\,{\rm kg}$$m_{\rm block}=1700\,{\rm kg}$$I_{\rm block}=33\,{\rm kg\cdot m^{2}}$

course_planning:183_projects:f18_project_14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-06T17:48:00+00:00

Project 14: Choose your own adventure Your group is to design a problem that incorporates the three main principles the p-cubed course has focused on: * Conservation of Energy * Conservation of Momentum * Conservation of Angular Momentum Your design should include both the

course_planning:183_projects:f19_fab_project_1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-30T04:46:34+00:00

Using the data from the first 20 seconds, we compute the velocity and acceleration of both the train ($X,V,A$) and car ($x,v,a$): Time Train Pos. ($X$) Car Pos. ($x$) Train Vel. ($V$) Car Vel. ($v$) Train Accel. ($A$) Car Accel. ($a$) 0 s 2536.40 m 10.47 m $$X(t)=X_{0{\rm s}}+V t\qquad\mbox{and}\qquad x(t)=x_{0{\rm s}}+\frac{1}{2}at^{2}.$$$$t_{\rm jump}=\frac{V\pm\sqrt{V^{2}+2a(X_{0{\rm s}}-x_{0{\rm s}})}}{a}\approx 555.979\,{\rm s}.$$$$x_{\rm jump}\approx 32359\,…

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-10T19:05:54+00:00

Project 1: Part A: Operation river boat crossing You are a group of scientists and engineers who are studying the Miskatonic River. You need to get across the river to take more measurements but your boat sprung a leak and sank. At the edge of the river which you have found to have a constant flow rate you come across a child and their parent playing with a remote control boat. There is also an old motorboat that you could use but its rudder is stuck in place and the motorboat is positioned so …

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-17T19:57:18+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-21T14:38:47+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_4

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-09-26T16:36:54+00:00

Project 4: Part A: Pinball wizard designer You and your colleagues work for Doc Brown Pinball Emporium a subsidiary of the Carver Media Group, a pinball machine manufacturer. The design of the latest machine has been divvied up and allocated to different parts of the company. Your team has been chosen to design the launch chamber and spring mounted firing plunger (i.e. system to fire the ball from the bottom to the top of the table). The team designing the second part of the table have reques…

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_5

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-10-06T14:29:40+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_6

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-10-10T16:28:22+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_7

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-10-17T16:36:16+00:00

Project 7: Part A: The Leaning Tower of P-cubed Learning Goals Project 7: Learning issues * Choosing an appropriate solution * Local gravitational potential energy * Energy conservation * Work * Non-constant forces Universal Studios in association with the Carver Media Group has created a travelling version of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. All of the rides in this new amusement park are all either animal or solar powered in order to be more environmentally friendly. You an…

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_8

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-10T15:59:49+00:00

Learning Goals Project 8: Learning issues * Newtonian gravitational potential energy * Spring potential energy * Energy conservation * Momentum conservation

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_9

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-10-31T16:33:38+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_10

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:34:18+00:00

Project 10: Part A: Engineering a movie stunt Learning Goals Project 10: Learning issues * Rotational and Translational Kinetic Energy * Local Gravitational Potential Energy * Moment of Inertia * Conservation of Energy * Relationship between Linear and Angular Velocity$M_{\rm sled} = 1500\,{\rm kg}$$$\omega_{reel} = \dfrac{M_{sled}}{m_{reel}}\dfrac{v_{sled}}{R_{reel}}$$

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-14T17:25:30+00:00

Project 11: Learning issues * Judicious choice of system * Recognizing boundaries of a collision * Momentum conservation * Energy conservation * Using graphs to explain/understand phenomena Project 11: Part A: Saving a probe Learning Goals $m_{\rm t}=4500\,{\rm kg}$$m_{\rm p}=400\,{\rm kg}$$k_{\rm p}=5.3\times10^{9}{\rm N/m}$$340\,{\rm m/s}$$m_{\rm a}=9300\,{\rm kg}$$950\,{\rm m/s}$$20\,{\rm kg}$$5$$\langle 225,-400,0 \rangle\,{\rm m/s}$$\langle -500,900,0 \rangle\,{\rm m}$$\langl…

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_12

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-21T17:13:30+00:00

Project 12, Part A: You spin me right round Project 12, Part A: Learning issues * Angular Momentum * Choosing an appropriate system * Rotational Kinetic Energy * Conservation of Momentum * Conservation of Angular Momentum Last time on post-apocalypse now: Your group of scientists still at the Thunderdome, have retrieved the satellite from outer space and begun work on putting together an alternative power generator based on a merry-go-round ride from a playground. Suddenly a wormh…

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_13

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-25T18:35:25+00:00

Project 13: Showdown at boar tiger corral (part 2) Learning Goals Project 13: Learning issues * Judicious choice of system * Recognizing boundaries of a collision * Linear Momentum Conservation * Angular Momentum Conservation * Analysis of Energy Movement$v=1600\,{\rm m/s}$$m_{\rm ball}=400\,{\rm kg}$$m_{\rm block}=1700\,{\rm kg}$$I_{\rm block}=33\,{\rm kg\cdot m^{2}}$

course_planning:183_projects:f19_project_14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-12-05T18:25:33+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-23T18:54:42+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_4

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-28T19:14:32+00:00

Project 4: Escape from Korath Part 1 Disclaimer: We could have made this about scientists or engineers testing something in a lab and the many applications of springs or the spring model but there is a point at which lab testing gets a bit boring so we had a little fun with the story. $d$$k_{s,i}$$2.3\times10^{-10}$$4.7\times10^{-2}$$3.5\times10^{-10}$$3.8\times10^{-2}$$4.3\times10^{-10}$$1.2\times10^{-2}$

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_5

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-30T18:59:57+00:00

(100 points) Crazy Hockey: After retiring from his successful ice hockey career as an enforcer, Doug Glatt wants to open the first crazy hockey course. His idea is to create a game like miniature golf - where instead of putting a ball into holes, you are slap shooting a puck into small goals. He has heard a lot of positive word-of-mouth about your work on the tv show

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_5b

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-01T19:01:20+00:00

A sports satellite is circularly orbiting planet $XÆ A-12$ in a geostationary orbit ready to bounce game signal all over the planet. The planet's mass is $2.41 * 10^{24}$. The satellite is orbiting the planet at a speed of 2732 m/s and the orbital distance is $3.65 * 10^6$ and a day lasts for 18 hours on planet $XÆ A-12$$XÆ A-12$$XÆ A-12$

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_5c

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-08T08:08:46+00:00

Project 5: Escape from Korath Part 2 Success! Your team has made it to the bottom of the “Cliff of Insanity” without alerting Korath the Pursuer to your location. Unfortunately, the piece of tech the team has, which guides you to the nearest dimensional gate, must have been malfunctioning at the top of the cliff because there is not a single-dimensional gate insight.

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_6

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-14T19:07:02+00:00

Project 6: Learning issues * Forces and Acceleration during Circular Motion * Stress and Strain and Young’s Modulus * Free-body Diagrams * Interpreting Stress/Strain graphs Project 6: Part A: Six Flags over East Lansing The city of East Lansing is trying to attract more summer tourists. They've decided to replace much of the abandoned buildings on Grand River with an amusement park. They've hired the Tyrell Corporation to build it. You and your team recently graduated from MSU engin…

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_7

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-21T20:03:03+00:00

Today, we are transitioning into talking about energy and are going to start small and examine energy from a few different scenarios. These scenarios highlight the idea of choosing systems and will ask you to analyze each problem from two different systems. This will hopefully help you all compare and contrast these two different approaches to solving energy problems.

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_8

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-26T18:25:43+00:00

Project 8: Part A: CSI East Lansing You are a group of scientists who are a member of an elite crime scene investigation unit who focus on traffic accidents. You have been called to the scene of an accident between two cars. Your initial assessment allows you to come to the conclusion that one of the cars has obviously run into the back of the other. Your team finds brake marks on the road. After examining the scene of the accident you conclude that one of the cars, a Volkswagen New Beetle w…

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_8a

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-28T19:00:47+00:00

Avengers Training: The Avengers are trying to get prepared for their next possible battle by having a group workout session. However, they want to spice-up their routine up, so they have asked your team to help add new workouts. They want to create workouts that result in them doing the maximum work possible in each case.

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_8b

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-29T18:59:03+00:00

Tuesday/Thursday Group Exam 2 Little Tommy Tuppin required seven stitches in his lip after he was struck in the face by a rogue tetherball. The wire constraining the tetherball snapped after drunken college senior Petey Paulsen recklessly punched the children's tetherball with too much force. Distraught, the Tuppin family has threatened to press charges, unless Petey manages to redesign the tetherball mechanism, to assure that it never snaps and no more innocent, harmless children are stuck by …

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_9

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-04T10:43:59+00:00

Project 9: Part A: Saving a probe You have been tasked with obtaining an AI device called HAL which is aboard a satellite. HAL, is a part of a satellite ($m_{\rm t}=4500\,{\rm kg}$) that the Carver Media Group Network (CMGN) launched and now is in danger of becoming self-aware. The satellite (and HAL) was designed to communicate with Earth out to a distance of 3.8 million kilometers. As part of the electronics, HAL contains a green and a red light-emitting diode (LED) mounted on the outer sur…

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_10

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-11T20:30:47+00:00

Project 10: Learning issues * Gravitational potential energy * Spring potential energy * Energy conservation * Momentum conservation Project 10: Part A: Launching a communications probe How did the satellite from last week that contained HAL get launched? Prequel alert. You and your team are engineers that have been contracted by Elliot Carver of the Carver Media Group Network (CMGN) to plan the launch of their new $m_t$$m_p$$k_p$$5.3\times10^9$$k_L$$8.3\times10^8$

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-18T18:26:06+00:00

Project 11: Learning issues * Energy Conservation * Kinematics * Thermal Energy * Specific Heat Capacity * Thermal Equilibrium Project 11: Part A: Post-Apocalypse Now Henry Gupta has returned. It turns out he is a pretty bad dude. Gupta hid a remote communication device on the HAL satellite that was activated. It launched many nuclear missiles across the world scorching most of the Earth. $\times 10^{3}\,{\rm kg/m^{3}}$$\times 10^{3}\,{\rm J/kg/K}$

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_12

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-23T20:00:34+00:00

Project 12: Part: A Engineering a movie stunt part 2 Your success with the previous stunt has lead to your being hired by Marvel Entertainment again for the new Doctor Strange film (a film that some have waited nearly 20 years to be released). Benedict Cumberbatch is Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange, a neurosurgeon who protects the Earth from magical threats both foreign and domestic.$M_{\rm sled} = 1500\,{\rm kg}$$$\omega_{\rm reel} = \dfrac{M_{\rm sled}}{m_{\rm reel}}\dfrac{v_{\rm sled}}{R_{\…

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_13

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-30T20:01:15+00:00

Project 13, Part A: You spin me right round Project 13, Part A: Learning issues * Angular Momentum * Choosing an appropriate system * Rotational Kinetic Energy * Conservation of Momentum * Conservation of Angular Momentum Last time on post-apocalypse now: Your group of scientists have begun work on putting together an alternative power generator based on a merry-go-round ride from a playground. Suddenly a wormhole opens in the middle of the Thunderdome and four strangers clad in 2…

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_13a

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-12-02T20:00:07+00:00

The Beaumont Tower on MSU's campus bell has been broken and as a fun outreach science experiment you have been tasked to guide some younglings in the development of a Rube Goldberg machine that facilitates the ringing of the bell. Your machine design should begin at the bottom of the tower and the final part of the machine should result in the movement of the clapper that rings the bell. The clapper must be moving at 3 m/s the instant before it hits the bell in order for the ding to be audible…

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_13b

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-12-03T19:59:20+00:00

It's 1975, and you've been hired to design a pinball machine for an upcoming event. You are told that it needs to be a one-of-a-kind, flashy pinball machine, fitting for the “pinball wizard” (although you don't really know what that means). The cosmetic design of the pinball machine is pre-determined (a piano-themed pinball machine, for some reason). The layout of the obstacles within the machine has also been planned out. However, you are asked to account for the physical design as well.

course_planning:183_projects:f20_project_14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-12-09T19:05:51+00:00

Project 14: Part A: Showdown at boar tiger corral Your success at the Thunderdome command center has led to your being raised to the rank of subcommander in the Scorched Earth Army. You have been sent to a remote outpost in Icy Cape, Alaska. The outpost is the first line of defense against boar tigers for the rest of humanity. It is located at the shore of a large frozen lake across from which is the boar tiger breeding ground. The outpost was formerly a foundry for metal working; several lar…

course_planning:183_projects:f21_week_1_escape_from_ice_station_mcmurdo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-01-15T21:39:02+00:00

Fall 2019 Project 2 Project 2: Learning goals * Predict the motion of a single-particle system executing constant velocity or constant acceleration motion using appropriate representations (this includes verbal, graphical, diagrammatic, mathematical, and computational representations).$\Delta\vec{p}=\vec{F}\,\Delta t$$d\vec{p}=\vec{F}\,dt$$\vec{F}_{net} = m\:\vec{a} = \dfrac{\Delta\vec{p}}{\Delta t}$$X,V,A$$x,v,a$$X$$x$$V$$v$$A$$a$$$X(t)=X_{0{\rm s}}+V t\qquad\mbox{and}\qquad x(t)=x_{0{\rm s…

course_planning:183_projects:f21_week_1_problem_river_crossing_computational_problem_solution

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-06T13:03:36+00:00

Project 1: Part B: River Boat Crossing Your company, Zevo Simulations, tasks you with the completion of a “projected trajectory simulator” for your boat crossing the river. You are not sure why this would be necessary, but you decide to proceed with the project. This simulator must display the motion of the boat crossing the river, with respect to the shore. The previous design team has already done the majority of the work, but they mysteriously disappeared without completing it$dx=v\,dt$$x(t)…

course_planning:183_projects:f21_week_1_problem_voyager_satellite_solution

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-06T13:10:24+00:00

Project 1 Solution: Part B: Voyager collision course Link to starter code: This is the students first introduction to VPython. In it, they must identify a few lines of code, write a few new lines, and discuss why those lines are written the way they are. Many students are often trepadatious to engage in computational modeling at first. You will need to encourage and coach them (computational anxiety is w…

course_planning:183_projects:f21_week_10_launching_communications_probe

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-11-01T18:48:34+00:00

Project 10: Part A: Launching a communications probe Project 10A: Learning Concepts * Gravitational potential energy * Spring potential energy * Energy conservation * Momentum conservation You and your team are engineers that have been contracted by Elliot Carver of the Carver Media Group Network (CMGN) to plan the launch of their new $m_t$$m_p$$k_p$$5.3\times10^9$$k_L$$8.3\times10^8$

course_planning:183_projects:f21_week_11_you_spin_me_right_round_part_2_solution

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-08T19:24:10+00:00

Project 13: Part B: You spin me right round Turns out, you have access to a high-powered water hose of the kind typically used to fend off boar tigers! This may come in handy, as the rotating platform of the generator has small little cups which would act perfectly to catch water. The cups line the platform at a distance $r_{0}=2.5\,{\rm m}$$F_{0}=200\,{N}$$\tau_{\rm hose}$$t_{\rm frictionless}\approx 2.7\,{\rm s}$$|\tau_{\rm fric}|=bL^{2}$$b=0.00025\,{\rm kg^{-1}m^{-2}}$

course_planning:183_projects:f21_week_13_showdown_at_boar_tiger_coral_part_2_solution

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-08T19:43:41+00:00

Project 14: Part B: Showdown at boar tiger corral After the epic showdown, the leaders of the boar tiger defense team decide to commission the development of an arcade game simulating the battle. The head of the development team, Boris Grishenko (Борис Грищенко), recently resigned. He leaves for you a partially completed section of code which aims to $v=1600\,{\rm m/s}$$m_{\rm ball}=400\,{\rm kg}$$m_{\rm block}=1700\,{\rm kg}$$I_{\rm block}=33\,{\rm kg\cdot m^{2}}$$K_{i}=K_{\rm ball}$$K_{f}=K…

course_planning:183_projects:f21_week_13_showdown_at_boar_tiger_coral

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-08-07T06:10:43+00:00

Project 13: Showdown at boar tiger corral Your success at the Thunderdome command center has led to your being raised to the rank of subcommander in the Scorched Earth Army. You have been sent to a remote outpost in Icy Cape, Alaska. The outpost is the first line of defense against boar tigers for the rest of humanity. It is located at the shore of a large frozen lake across from which is the boar tiger breeding ground. The outpost was formerly a foundry for metal working; several large recta…

course_planning:183_projects:lindsey_and_sydney_solution

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-05-27T14:59:28+00:00

Honors Project Project 1: Learning goals * Project 1: Learning issues * Project 1: Part 1: Aspen Extreme Joe Bob runs a ski resort with the best ski hills in the area. The only thing he lacks is an awesome tubing hill with a tuber lodge at the top. Joe hires your group to design a hill with a mechanism to pull tubers from the back of the hill up to the top so people can slide down the other side and have lots of fun.$m/s$$$t=d/v$$$$t=(h)sin(θ)/(v)$$$$P = W_{motor}/t (watts)$$$$Work -…

course_planning:183_projects:lindsey_and_sydney

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-04-25T17:50:25+00:00

Project 1: Aspen Extreme - Part 1 Joe Bob runs a ski resort with the best ski hills in the area. The only thing he lacks is an awesome tubing hill with a tuber lodge at the top. Joe hires your group to design a hill with a mechanism to pull tubers from the back of the hill up to the top so people can slide down the other side and have lots of fun.$m/s$

course_planning:183_projects:project_solution_template

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-05-27T14:59:21+00:00

Fall 2016 Project 1 Project 1: Learning goals * Project 1: Learning issues * Project 1: Part X: Title Project 1 Solution: Part X: Title Tutor Questions: * Question: * Expected Answer: Common Difficulties: * Main Points: *

course_planning:183_projects:project_template

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-04-25T17:50:52+00:00

Project 1: Part X: Title Project 1: Part Y: Title Code for Project 1: Part B Keep them in the same directory. [Project 1 Code (code.py)] [PhysUtil Module]

course_planning:183_projects:s18_project_15

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-24T16:39:46+00:00

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course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-09T19:13:22+00:00

Project 1: Part A: Riverboat Crossing You are a group of scientists and engineers who are studying the Miskatonic River. You need to get across the river to take more measurements but your boat sprung a leak and sank. At the edge of the river which you have found to have a constant flow rate you come across a child and their parent playing with a remote control boat. There is also an old motorboat that you could use but its rudder is stuck in place and the motorboat is positioned so that it is …

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-16T18:09:41+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-23T18:46:17+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-28T14:31:18+00:00

Project 4: Part A: Escape from Korath Disclaimer: We could have made this about scientists or engineers testing something in a lab and the many applications of springs or the spring model but there is a point at which lab testing gets a bit boring so we had a little fun with the story. $d$$k_{s,i}$$2.3\times10^{-10}$$4.7\times10^{-2}$$3.5\times10^{-10}$$3.8\times10^{-2}$$4.3\times10^{-10}$$1.2\times10^{-2}$

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_4

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-31T15:50:58+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-31T15:05:57+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_5

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-02-06T18:36:40+00:00

Project 5: Part A: Escape from Korath Project 5: Learning issues * Constant acceleration and kinematic equations * Frictional Force * Rotated Frames (Forces on an inclined plane) * Free body diagrams Your team is now confronted by a tunnel that then leads to the dimensional gate. Your amazing piece of tech (turning out to be very useful) indicates that the dimensional gate is at the end of the tunnel and must be entered at a speed of 20mph. It also indicates the angle and height of th…

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_6_hidden

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-02-19T10:35:59+00:00

Project 8: Part A: CSI East Lansing Part 1 You are a group of scientists who are a member of an elite crime scene investigation unit who focus on traffic accidents. You have been called to the scene of an accident between two cars. Your initial assessment allows you to come to the conclusion that one of the cars has obviously run into the back of the other. Your team finds brake marks on the road. After examining the scene of the accident you conclude that one of the cars, a Volkswagen New B…

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_6

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-02-13T18:32:39+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-02-28T14:53:25+00:00

Learning Goals Project 8: Learning issues * Newtonian gravitational potential energy * Spring potential energy * Energy conservation * Momentum conservation Project 8: Part A: Launching a communications probe You and your team are engineers that have been contracted by Elliot Carver of the Carver Media Group Network (CMGN) to plan the launch of their new $m_t$$m_p$$k_p$$5.3\times10^9$$k_L$$8.3\times10^8$$m_{\rm t}=4500\,{\rm kg}$$m_{\rm p}=400\,{\rm kg}$$k_{\rm p}=5.3\times10^{9}{\rm…

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_7

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-02-20T18:40:41+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-02-27T18:50:13+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-19T03:17:21+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-12T16:01:33+00:00

Project 9: Part A: Launching a communications probe You and your team are engineers that have been contracted by Elliot Carver of the Carver Media Group Network (CMGN) to plan the launch of their new “communications” satellite. The satellite is meant to perform a geosynchronous pole-to-pole orbit.$m_t$$m_p$$k_p$$5.3\times10^9$$k_L$$8.3\times10^8$$m_{\rm t}=4500\,{\rm kg}$$m_{\rm p}=400\,{\rm kg}$$k_{\rm p}=5.3\times10^{9}{\rm N/m}$$340\,{\rm m/s}$$m_{\rm a}=9300\,{\rm kg}$$950\,{\rm m/s}$

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_10_hidden

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-25T19:25:40+00:00

Project 10: Part A: Engineering a movie stunt You and your team have been hired by Marvel Entertainment to develop a stunt for the next offering in the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- Captain American: Civil War. This film introduces a new character: T'Challa, the Black Panther. $$\omega_{\rm reel} = \dfrac{M_{\rm sled}}{m_{\rm reel}}\dfrac{v_{\rm sled}}{R_{\rm reel}}$$

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-19T16:56:57+00:00

Project 10: Part A: Post-Apocalypse Now Project 10A: Learning issues * Energy Conservation * Thermal Energy * Specific Heat Capacity * Thermal Equilibrium As the satellite, you attempted to save came back into the Earth's atmosphere a remote communication device on the satellite was activated and launched many nuclear missiles across the world scorching most of the Earth. $\times 10^{3}\,{\rm kg/m^{3}}$$\times 10^{3}\,{\rm J/kg/K}$

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_11_hidden

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-27T13:50:43+00:00

Spring 2016 Project 12 Project 12: Learning goals * Generate free body diagrams for single-particle systems where the momentum is not changing (statics & uniform motion) to explain the motion of the system and/or to predict various physical quantities associated with the system.$200\,{\rm kg}$$2.5\,{\rm m}$$1000\,{\rm kg}$$1\,{\rm cm}$$1\,{\rm m}$$30,000\,{\rm N}$

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-27T15:01:04+00:00

Project 11: Part A: Engineering a movie stunt You and your team have been hired by Marvel Entertainment to develop a stunt for the next Black Panther movie. In a scene meant to take place in T'Challa's homeland of Wakanda, a young T'Challa is searching for vibranium (Wakanda's chief export) on a large hill. While digging, he disturbs a large boulder, which begins to roll down the hill after him. In the scene, T'Challa is meant to sprint down the mountain while the boulder rolls behind him, …

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_12

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-02T16:14:00+00:00

Project 12: Part A: Engineering a movie stunt Once our stunt person who is playing Ethan is on top of the building an attack drone flies down to attack him. It turns out he had another spindle wheel of exactly the same dimensions and mass attached to him as the first wheel (m = 0.5 kg, the outer radius of 6.2cm and an inner radius of 2cm) and the drone has latched onto this and started pulling with a force equivalent to the force of gravity that was applied to Ethan as he fell from the building…

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_13

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-09T16:46:11+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-16T16:25:02+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-21T16:15:53+00:00

Group Exam Final You have been hired to design a stunt for the next James Bond movie, tentatively titled “The Dr. from Russia with the Golden Finger Lives Twice.” The script calls for Bond to drive his car onto the frozen Niagara River (which is 100 m wide) heading straight for Niagara Falls, while being chased by a car full of SPECTRE agents. Bond’s car is to be equipped with gadgets from Q that will allow him to change direction to get off the river before going over the Falls, and either sto…

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_15b

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-21T16:18:26+00:00

Project 15: Choose your own adventure Your group is to design a problem that incorporates the three main principles the p-cubed course has focused on: * Conservation of Energy * Conservation of Momentum * Conservation of Angular Momentum Your design should include both the

course_planning:183_projects:s20_project_15c

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-23T16:37:11+00:00

Project 15: Part B: Boar Tigers - They're so hot right now The lore built up around boar tigers may be wrong. Four intrepid scientists have a theory. It turns out that boar tigers may not be naturally aggressive, however, they become agitated in the heat. Our scientists and engineers believe that if a boar-tiger can be cooled they will become very docile. Unfortunately, they cannot cool themselves, their bodies have not properly adapted to the post-apocalyptic heat. Your job is to make a giant …

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_1_monday_wednesday

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T01:53:53+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_1_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T01:57:06+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_2_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T01:59:23+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_3_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T02:01:40+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T02:04:55+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T03:35:27+00:00

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-13T01:51:04+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_7_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-03-01T20:50:29+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_8_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T02:17:54+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_9_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-29T17:59:48+00:00

Project 9A: Saving a probe Fall 2016 Project 11 Project 9: Learning goals * For an extended or multi-particle system, determine the system’s translational, rotational, and total angular momentum. * Apply the momentum principle ($\Delta \vec{p} = \vec{F}\Delta t$; $d\vec{p} = \vec{F}dt$) iteratively/computationally to predict the motion or determine the properties of motion/net force acting on a single-particle system where the net force is a constant vector (e.g., due to the near Earth …

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_10_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-03-23T03:42:54+00:00

Project 10: Part A: Launching a communications probe Project 10A: Learning issues * Gravitational potential energy * Spring potential energy * Energy conservation * Momentum conservation You and your team are engineers that have been contracted by Elliot Carver of the Carver Media Group Network (CMGN) to plan the launch of their new $m_t$$m_p$$k_p$$5.3\times10^9$$k_L$$8.3\times10^8$

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_11_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T02:31:18+00:00

Project 11: Post-Apocalypse Now Part 2 Stuck in the wilderness for a number of days and unable to contact the people in your bunker, your team along with Willard and Kilgore set out to find a new safe haven. After traversing the scorched wasteland for a number of days you see postings for

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_12_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T02:34:49+00:00

Project 12: Part B: Engineering a movie stunt Ethan Hunt (our stunt person) is rap jumping down a building to try and get to an adjacent building. He attaches one end of a grapple to the top of the building and the other end leads to a spindle wheel (m = 0.5 kg) of wire that unwinds as he moves away from the grapple. The wheel is specifically designed so that once it begins to spin it is very difficult to make it stop. His goal is the rap jump down one building to a canopy that is positioned di…

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_13_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T02:36:26+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:s20_week_14_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-30T02:37:36+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:s23_week_1_geostationary_orbit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-01-25T17:34:23+00:00

Fall 2015 Project 3 Project 3: Learning goals * Predict the motion of a system of gravitationally interacting objects analytically and computationally. * Evaluate the validity of predictions for the motion of gravitationally interacting objects. * Generate free body diagrams for a system of multiple objects and identify the Newton’s 3rd Law force pairs in order to explain physical phenomena.$mv^{2}/r$$GM_{\oplus}m/r^{2}$$$\frac{mv^{2}}{r}=G\frac{M_{\oplus}m}{r^{2}}\quad\longrightarrow\qu…

course_planning:183_projects:s23_week_1_problem_toy_boat_problem_solution

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-01-11T15:56:25+00:00

Spring 2016 Project 1 Project 1: Learning goals * Perform the following mathematical operations on (physical) vector quantities: vector addition/subtraction, magnitude/unit vector. * Sketch vector quantities and perform graphical (physical) vector addition/subtraction.$W=20\,{\rm m}$$v_{\rm b/w}$$W$$t_{\rm across}$$v_{\rm b/w}$$t_{\rm across}$$$x(t)=v\,t\quad\longrightarrow\quad W=v_{\rm b/w}t_{\rm across},$$$$v_{\rm b/w}=\frac{W}{t_{\rm across}}.$$$\quad\longrightarrow \quad v_{\rm b/w}=1…

course_planning:183_projects:s23_week_3_geostationary_orbit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-18T01:20:27+00:00

problem3_spring2023 Project 3: Learning goals * Predict the motion of a system of gravitationally interacting objects analytically and computationally. * Evaluate the validity of predictions for the motion of gravitationally interacting objects. * Generate free body diagrams for a system of multiple objects and identify the Newton’s 3rd Law force pairs in order to explain physical phenomena.$mv^{2}/r$$GM_{\oplus}m/r^{2}$$$\frac{mv^{2}}{r}=G\frac{M_{\oplus}m}{r^{2}}\quad\longrightarrow\qu…

course_planning:183_projects:s24_week_1_escape_from_ice_station_mcmurdo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-01-17T15:33:52+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-12-03T16:41:56+00:00

course_planning:183_projects:training_problem

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-26T16:41:16+00:00

Training Project: Bob and Blobs You live on the planet Bob. Bob (Bob has a radius of 8432 Km and a mass of 6.822 × 10^26 kg). The industrial revolution on Bob has transpired differently than on Earth due to mainly the ability to construct springs of extremely large spring constants. The space program of the planet Bob is reliant on springs to send objects into orbit and for propulsion. However, the scientific community has recently moved to experiment with new forms of energy such as nuclear po…