Teaching Physics through

Experimental Projects

ELVI KHAIRUNISA 140511

LAILATUL BADRIAH 140511
RESKI VERNANDO 1405117976

Dr. Nur Islami

 RESULT

Many undergraduate laboratories are

working with projects now. In the
electronics course, junior level, a team
designed a robot that is able to drill a
hole in the ground, plant a defined
number of tomato seeds and move the
required distance to drill a new hole.

Fig. 2: Kaye Effect,

 For example the analysis of the escape manoeuver of a
Xiphophorus montezumae (Fig. 1a), a small fish with a
long rigid tail, helped the PhD thesis of a biology
student. The objective of the thesis was to determine
whether this tail is mainly ornamental or if it has any
use for the survival of the animal. They already knew
that fish with longer tails need more oxygen to swim in
a straight line. So we designed a tank to observe the
escape maneuver when the tank was perturbed. Students
in our class measured the angle and speed of escape as a
function of the tail size. The final result was that the tail
was merely ornamental
Fig.1 a) Xiphophorus montezumae is a small fish with
a rigid tail