PHZ3400 Term Project
Term Project:
A term paper, at least 2000 words on a certain topic is due on Thursday, April 14. Following the completion of these papers, during the last week of classes, students will give 20-minute presentations, where they will share what they have learned on this topic with the rest of the class. Instead of presenting these paper in printed form, students will contribute the corresponding materials (including as many graphs, pictures, tables as possible) to the set of our course Wiki-pages. Each paper should be presented on a separate page, which should be linked to the other course Web pages, as appropriate.
This year (2011) coincides with a centennial of the discovery of superconductivity by Kammerling Onnes in 1911. To celebrate this ground-braking discovery, we will pay special attention, in this class, to examining many fascinating facets of this phenomenon. So this time over, I ask that all term papers be devoted to a specific sunb-topic on superconductivity. These papers should be written in an introductory and elementary fashion, which could be used to introduce these important ideas and discoveries with the public at large. Those papers (i.e. Wiki pages) that are especially well written and accomplished will be incorporated in a new "Superconductivity at 100" Web site, that the Magnet Lab is developing, as a part of its outreach efforts - to bring the cutting edge science to the public at large.
A list of selected topics is listed below. If you prefer to work on a topic that is not on the list, you must get prior approval. There is quite some flexibility in the scientific content and the depth into which you address the scientific issues. You are encouraged to discuss these with me in the process. The paper must be in your original words, with proper references if previous work is cited. The quality and the presentation of the term paper will contribute 10% to the final grade.
Project topics: