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Physics Projects 1
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  Scientist Year Holt Merrill Know
Astronomy
A Eratosthenes 235 BC None None How did he measure Earth’s circumference?
B Ptolemy  125 None None How did he prove the Sun & planets orbit Earth?
C Copernicus  1514 248 None Why did others believe him over Ptolemy?
D Kepler  1609 248-251 156-157 Diagram and label his 1st & 2nd Laws and perform an example calculation for his 3rd Law.
http://www.physics.sjsu.edu/tomley/Kepler12.html
Fluids
E Bernoulli  1738 286 & 911 272-273 Diagram his equipment and derive his equation.
http://home.earthlink.net/~mmc1919/venturi.html
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/KINNAS/319LAB/Applets/Venturi/venturi.html
Mechanics
F Archimedes 250 BC 276-277, 283 270 & 272 Diagram Archimedes Principal.  Show sample calculation.
G Galileo 1592 8, 21, 56, 125, 377 9 & 7 Focus on motion.
H Newton 1687 125-134,  209-210,  239-250 87-92,162, 337 Focus on motion or on gravity.
Light
I Huygens  1678 449 & 532 392 Diagram and explain his principle
http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/otherpub/wfendt/huygens.htm
J Young 1801 pg 530, Sample A 392 & 398 Show an applet, diagram and explain the double slit experiment (Merrill pg 393).  Diagram and explain how it is used to measure the wavelength (Merrill pg 394).
http://surendranath.tripod.com/Applets/Optics/Slits/DoubleSlit/DblSltApplet.html
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/interference/doubleslit/index.html
K Hertz 1888 732 & 756 544  
http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/hertzexperiment.html
Heat
L Lomonosov 1747 No None Heat is not a fluid but the result of motion. Conservation Laws for mass and energy.
M Benjamin Thompson 1798 No None  
N James Joule 1843 161 198 & 230  
O Rudolph Clausius 1850 No None Focus on heat theory
www.answers.com/topic/carnot-cycle-2
scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Clausius.html
Electricity & Magnetism
P Coulomb 1785 564, 571-574 415  
www.geocities.com/bioelectrochemistry/coulomb.htm
Q Alessandro Volta 1800  No 450  
R Hans Oersted 1820  684 496  
http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/oersted.htm
scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Oersted.html
S Faraday 1831 712-731 426,502,516  
T Maxwell 1873 731-732, 763, 914 542  
Modern Physics
U Einstein  1905 914-919 169 & 558 Describe, diagram, and explain the photoelectric effect
V Niels Bohr 1913 765-770 580-584 Describe, diagram, and explain the improvement he made in the model of the atom.
W Heisenberg 1926 775-776 568 & 585