centrifugal force demo

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this is an example of a project that I came up with some one else might have as well but as far as I know this is a unique engineering/design project where the students design something that demonstrates a scientific principle such as angular momentum, the effect the length of a pendulum has. Project: Designing Scientific Principles This is what I think is a fun project, the goal is to create a multi part "toy" that demonstrates a basic scientific principle. This project can be given to middle-schoolers or students in an introductory engineering course. This project should only need five days to complete, one or two to decide what scientific principle the student wants to demonstrate and three to four to design the thing that will do the demonstrating. As long as the students know some basic physics the project should be able to begin at anytime the teacher would like. Projects should be graded based on complexity of the design, whether it demonstrates a scientific principle or not and the creativity of the design. My example would get in the order listed before 2/5, 5/5 and 1/5 I did after all just slightly modify an old marble puzzle.