Science Shop Projects - Physics
The photos below show some of the recent equipment repairs and faculty projects that have been performed in the Science Shop by Brian Berg. Senior research projects are also developed and created with his guidance.
Physics Projects
Joel Asare ’25 holding an implement built in the shop for his SYE. This implement will attach to a micrometer adjustable grating for a spectrometer, which will allow Joel to make micro adjustments via a stepper motor controlled by an Arduino board and code that he wrote.
Locking collar, aluminum coupler, and stand for stepper motor built in the shop for Joel Asare’s SYE.
Will Hauf ’24 working in the shop on his vending machine project for Dr. Catherine Jahncke’s "Introduction to Microcontrollers" class
Logan Ritchie ’24 holding the coil and bench mount of his single-stage induction coil launcher built in the shop for his SYE
11 Savonius vertical-axis wind turbine frames fabricated in the shop for Associate Professor Munir Pirbhai’s Physics 105-Energy class. The students added plastic bottle halves, coils of fine wire, and neodymium magnets to complete the turbine
Brachistochrone Curve built with the assistance of the Fabrication Lab for Leah Biwot ‘24 as a class project for Physics 317 Instrumentation Lab
Clear dust covers built in the shop to protect optics on storage boards. Storing optics on these boards is safer than storing them in drawers and these covers mitigate the problem of dust on the lenses and mirrors
Tilting box with clear front built for Max Arnone ‘24 for his Physics 317 - Instrumentation Lab project studying the angle of repose
Coil stand and platform for holding a Peltier TEM centered within magnetic fields, built in our shop for Cora Ferguson’s ’23 SYE
Gas sample cell fabricated in our shop and installed on our Raman laser table, used to examine compressed disc samples in a gas atmosphere
LED boards made in the shop to be used to illustrate Planck’s Constant in Modern Physics and Instrumentation Lab
Brass ratchet fabricated for Tim Cunningham ’21 to demonstrate the Leidenfrost Effect in Physics 317 Instrumentation Lab
Caleb Clarke ’20 working on the milling machine in preparation for building his senior research project
A cordless drill was used to make several thousand wraps of fine-gauge magnetic wire around a PVC cylinder for Caleb's senior research project
Using the lathe and boring bar to fabricate a base plate for the coil
Coil installed and wired into base with banana plug sockets to enable taking measurements