The following objects or topics are covered extensively in the lectures and notes for Physics 105N and Physics 106N. You would have difficulty writing a paper on one of these subjects that is truly your own work. It would be just too easy and too tempting to copy my approach, my thoughts, even my words. My lectures and notes should be only part of the reference materials you use for your term paper. Find an object that I do not discuss directly in depth and use similarities between your object and some of mine to identify the physical principles that make your object work.
Air Conditioners Air Purification Airplanes Audio Amplifiers Automobile Engines Automobiles Balances Balloons Baseball Batteries Bicycles CD Players Centrifuges Clocks Diamonds Electric Motors Electrical Power Distribution Electrical Power Generation Elevators Falling Balls Fluorescent Light Bulbs Furnaces Glass Heat Pumps Helicopters Incandescent Light Bulbs Knives Lasers Laundries Magnetic Resonance Imaging Magnetically Levitated Trains Medical Imaging Medical Radiation Microscopes Microwave Ovens Nuclear Reactors Nuclear Weapons Oil Refineries Paint Photographic Cameras and Projectors Pipe Organs Plastics Radio Ramps Refrigerators Rockets Roller Coasters Scales Scuba Diving Seesaws Sunlight Swimming Tape Recorders Telephones Telescopes Television The Atmosphere Thermometers Thermostats Toasters Vacuum Cleaners Violins Water Faucets Water Purification Water, Steam, and Ice Wheels Xerographic Copiers