Physics and Astronomy

Build a muon detector, compare counts with lightning data, and test how thunderstorm activity changes ground-level cosmic ray signals.

Design a simulated cosmic-ray telescope, test angular resolution, and compare detector layouts using Geant4 or Topas with real analysis tools.

Build a Markov state model from public molecular-dynamics data and learn how to detect metastable peptide states with real trajectory analysis.

Build a mechanical logic testbed and measure snap-buckling, fatigue, and cycle life while learning how bistable beams store and release energy.

Build a Python Mössbauer pipeline to estimate recoil-free fraction and isomer shift, then test how fitting choices change your results.

Measure capillary rise in celery with phone video, fit a porous-medium model, and connect your data to plant water transport physics.

Use public survey photometry to test Kuiper belt color bimodality with Bayesian mixture models, data cleaning, and statistical inference.

Measure how grain shape changes hourglass flow, fit Beverloo-law exponents, and compare your data with DEM simulations in LIGGGHTS.

Use JWST spectra and petitRADTRANS to compare silicate and iron clouds in brown dwarfs while building retrieval and model-fitting skills.

Measure thrust in a tabletop MHD drive, fit a scaling law, and compare your data with a finite-element MHD model in FEniCSx.