Special Studies

Each year, a few students undertake long term, independent experimental studies in topics of interest to them.  The following are projects carried out  since January, 2001.

The H2O Project

explosions of hydrogen-oxygen balloons

Tim Collier
Brian Sweeney

Binary Drop Collisions

collisions of drops in free fall

Ashwin Kulkarni
Eric Gibble

Collisions at Mach 3

high-speed bullets colliding with various objects

Amoz Eckerson

Convection Currents and Shock Waves

fluid dynamics studied with the technique of schlieren photography

Steve Butcher
Alex Crouse