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AP Physics 1 Final Project

The final project focuses on using physics to address real-world problems through research and creativity. Students are encouraged to brainstorm ideas related to issues they care about, explore physics concepts, and consider various project formats such as experiments, surveys, or conceptual models. The goal is to develop a mini research project that combines personal interests with physics to create meaningful solutions or insights.

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AP Physics 1 Final Project

The final project focuses on using physics to address real-world problems through research and creativity. Students are encouraged to brainstorm ideas related to issues they care about, explore physics concepts, and consider various project formats such as experiments, surveys, or conceptual models. The goal is to develop a mini research project that combines personal interests with physics to create meaningful solutions or insights.

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Final Project Introduction: Physics for a Better World

“What problem do you want to help solve?”​


This is the guiding question for your final project.

In this project, you will take on the role of a researcher—someone who uses curiosity, logic, and
creativity to explore ideas and improve the world around them.

Research isn’t limited to just equations and labs. At its heart, research is the process of asking
meaningful questions, building on what we already know, and discovering or solving something
new.

Physics is more than just math and motion—it's a way of understanding systems, solving
problems, and even improving how we work, move, think, and interact. This is your chance to
apply what you’ve learned to something that matters to you.

💡 Your Mission:
Start by brainstorming a problem or question you care about. Your project can focus on:

●​ A real-world issue (ex: energy efficiency, safety, accessibility)​

●​ A physics concept you want to explore further (ex: motion, force, energy, waves, etc.)​

●​ A soft skill or classroom dynamic (ex: how collaboration, organization, or mindset


impact success in physics)​

●​ A study where you collect data from peers to test a hypothesis (ex: how sleep affects
reaction time, or whether group work leads to higher understanding)​

You may choose to:

●​ Design a solution or tool​


●​ Build a conceptual or mathematical model​

●​ Conduct a physics-based experiment or simulation​

●​ Run a study (survey, observation, or simple testing)​

●​ Analyze how soft skills influence learning in physics​

🧠 Brainstorming Prompts:
●​ What’s a challenge in your life or community that could be better understood with
physics?​

●​ What questions have come up during this class that you’d like to dig into?​

●​ Have you noticed patterns or behaviors among your classmates?​

●​ Is there something you’ve struggled with and learned to overcome in this class? Could
that experience help others?​

🗓 This Week’s Goal:


🎯 Come up with 2–3 ideas for your project. Be creative, be curious, and don’t limit
yourself.

In the coming weeks, you’ll choose one of your ideas to develop into a mini research project.
You’ll write a summary, gather background knowledge, and present your findings as a scientific
article.
🧠 Final Project Brainstorming Worksheet: Physics for a Better World
🔍 Step 1: What is Research?
In your own words, what do you think research is?​
(You can think of it as a way to explore, solve, or understand something better.)
Research is the process of taking an educated guess about a topic and then testing that
guess based on factual information and experiments

🌍 Step 2: What Do You Care About?


Write down a few issues, questions, or curiosities you care about. These can be related to your
life, your community, the world, or even your learning experience in class.
I think that driving unnecessarily fast is something that concerns me, and can be the cause of avoidable
accidents

I think that

⚙️ Step 3: Physics Connection


How could physics help understand or solve one of the ideas above?

You can think in terms of motion, force, energy, systems, efficiency, structure,
waves, or anything we’ve studied.
I think we can calculate the amount of time saved by speeding through a speed time chart, so that people

can see how much time that they actually save through Driving fast.
🧪 Step 4: Project Format Ideas
Check all that you’re interested in exploring:

​ Design or propose a solution/tool using physics concepts


​ Build or model a physics system/concept
​ Conduct an experiment to test a principle
​ Run a study or survey to gather data (ex: reaction time, student focus, productivity, etc.)
​ Analyze how teamwork, mindset, or organization affects physics performance
​ Research and present a real-world physics innovation or discovery​

💡 Step 5: Your Top 2–3 Project Ideas


Start rough. It’s okay if they’re just seeds of ideas!
Analyzing the time saved through speeding on the road through calculation
1.​
2.​ The price of college should be need based on the income level of the student
There should be more focus on the child development of real world knowledge rather than spending
3.​ time worrying about paper tests that are not going to be useful in the future

✅ Step 6: Which idea excites you most and why?


What makes this idea meaningful or interesting to you?​
(You’ll be spending some time with it—make sure it sparks your curiosity!)
I think the first Idea excited me the most because, I have already pondered on how I am going

to present this topic and it also has a lot of real world use cases.

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