Projects

Guidelines

Selecting Projects

You are expected to complete 4 projects. No more, no less!
You MUST choose at least one from 3 points worth of one project.
Each project will have a grade point which also represents its difficulty level. You are expected to complete a minimum of 8 points from the projects listed. The grade points you collected will not have any effect on final project grading. Therefore, total points collected might be larger than 8 points.
There is no restriction in the order of projects. However, we encourage you to start from the less difficult one. We also advice to beginners that they should submit at least two easy ones as early as possible.
If you know what to do you can start working on them right away.

Project Period

Starting from W10 (11th week) only project works will be discussed during the lab hours.
Come to lab as usual, your instructors will be there to help you with your projects.
You will have to attend to full 2 hours and attendance will be taken at the end of lab hours.

Coding

All of your projects must contain functions inside.
YOUR WORK MUST BE YOURS! Even though you can get help and advise from your friends, you must complete all projects alone and NOT work and/or code together with other people. Proper action will be taken for students who copy others’ work.
You are NOT allowed to use any packages or special functions of Python with the exception of math and any other ones specifically mentioned.
You are NOT allowed to look up any of the codes on the internet. You can only look up syntax. Example : If you are expected to write a sorting program, you cannot use search phrases such as "Sorting algorithm", "How to do a sort using Python". You can, on the other hand, search for specific tasks such as "How to add a number to an array".

Modules & Libraries

The list of libraries which are allowed to use: random, math, system
The list of libraries which are NOT allowed to use: scipy, numpy

Submission

Everything is done in a digital medium. Therefore no exception is allowed for the deadlines.
We advice you to submit two easy projects 1 week after the Mid-term exam.
All projects have to be submitted at the end of the semester term.
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General Kinematics

Here you can find supplementary material on Newton Kinematics

S-Apollo11

Calculate the magnetic field on the track of Apollo 11.

(3 points)

S-ChargedParticles

Calculate the electric field of a collection of point charges at a given point in 3D space.

(2 points)

S-FeynVertex

Create Feynman Diagrams of the elementary particle interactions.

(2 points)

S-GeneRun

Run an agarose gel simulation with the given data of restriction enzyme cut gene lengths.

(1 points)

S-Friction1D

Given the initial velocity and height of a 1D point particle, thrown up or down, calculate the velocity as a function of time in the presence of air friction.

(2 points)

S-Friction2D

Given the initial speed (m/sec) and the launch angle (in degrees) of a point particle projectile calculate the trajectory (x and z values, in meters) as a function of time in the presence of air friction.

(3 points)

S-GuidingCenter

Calculate and animate the trajectory of a charged particle in an electric and magnetic field.

(3 points)

S-MakeGraphene

Build a graphene sheet whose size is determined by the user.

(3 points)

S-MotionField

Calculate the trajectory of a charged particle in an electric and magnetic field.

(3 points)

S-NewtonRoot

Calculate the roots of a function using the Newton's method.

(2 points)

S-PlanetMotion

Calculate the trajectory of planet X.

(3 points)

S-PiMonteCarlo

Find approximate value of π by using Monte Carlo method.

(2 points)

S-PlancksLaw

Calculate the total power emitted by a blackbody using the Simpson's rule.

(2 points)

S-RandomWalk2D

In this project, we are going to see how a particle moves randomly on a surface, such as a single celled organism in a buffer medium containing nutrients.

(2 points)

S-RelMotion1D

Use both classical and relativistic mechanics to analyze motion of a particle under constant force.

(2 points)

S-Rocket

Simulate the trajectory of a fuel-consuming rocket.

(3 points)

S-SmoothData

Convert a noisy signal to a clean one by using the moving average algorithm.

(2 points)

S-Taylor

Calculate exponential of a float number numerically by utilizing the Taylor expansion.

(1 points)

S-TunnellingEarth

Analyze numerically the motion of an object falling through an hypothetical tunnel.