Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships

Department of Physics

University of Toronto

SURF: New Experiments

Coordinator: Natalia Krasnopolskaia

Every year, the Department of Physics introduces new experiments and upgrates the old experiments in the 1st year Physics Laboratory. Students successfully participate in these activities.



This project includes:

- Upgrading the experiment "Free Fall" with assembling a motion sensor and connecting the apparatus to PASCO interface with DataStudio software

- Combining three experiments studying the wave phenomenon in a gas and a solid in one new experiment


Possible additional parts of the project will include:

- Wilberforce Pendulum - tuning the new PASCO equipment for the experiment "Wilberforce Pendulum" and designing a number of exercises for the 1st year labs

- Gyroscope - designing a lecture demonstration with a new model of a gyroscope and designing a number of exercises with this gyroscope for the 1st year labs.


Project outline


Last updated February 29, 2012