| INSTRUCTIONS - PROFESSORS: Fill out Sections A & B then submit this form online. (You will receive an email copy of the form. The Office for Undergraduate Research in Science will also post the project online, indicating whether the project is open for students to apply or taken.) DONE | |
| INSTRUCTIONS - STUDENTS: You may receive this form by email, or you may download it after it has been posted. Either way, print this form. Complete and sign Section C on the hardcopy. Ask your supervisor to sign Section D. Take it to the department corresponding to the course number in Section A (this may or may not be your own department). Do not register for a '396' course on Minerva until you receive departmental permission. | |
| INSTRUCTIONS - DEPARTMENTS: After the unit chair/director/designate approves (or not) this project, notify student. If approved, please give student permission to register on Minerva, and fax this form (with signatures) to the Office for Undergraduate Research in Science at 514-398-8102. | |
| QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? Contact Victor Chisholm by email, or phone 514-398-5964. | |
| SECTION A: SUPERVISOR INFORMATION | |
| Name: | dik Harris |
| Email: | dik [dot] harris [at] mcgill [dot] ca |
| Phone: | 6522 |
| Website: | |
| Supervisor's department: | Physics |
| Supervisor's department (if none of the above) | |
| Course number: | PHYS396 (Physics) |
| SECTION B: PROJECT INFORMATION | |
| Term: | Winter 2010 |
| Project start date: | January 4 2010 |
| Project end date: | April 14 2010 |
| Project title: | Acoustics of Brass Instruments |
| Project description: | The project will involve assembling the existing data for the directional properties of brass instruments, and first comparing it to the predictions of diffraction theory for a circular aperture. Then, after discrepancies have been identified, the data will be compared to the predictions that result from the calculations of Levine and Schwinger.These calculations are a variant of the scattering theory familiar, today, from quantum mechanics, and provide predictions of the complete angular distribution of acoustic radiation from the end of an open pipe. Although their results are often quoted in the literature, there has been no attempt to compare them with experimental data. To perform this comparison, it will be necessary to work through the details, and render the results in a form suitable for numerical computation. |
| Prerequisite: | Other: please specify below |
| Other prerequisite, if applicable: | U3 of Physics Honours |
| Grading scheme (The final report must be worth at least 50% of final grade): | Final Report: 100% |
| Other project information: | |
| Project status - This project is: | Taken. The professor has no more '396' projects this term. |
| How students can apply: | N/A; this project is filled. |
| If other, please specify: | |
| Ethics, safety, and training | |
| Which of the following, if any, is involved? | None |
| Animal subjects | [ ] |
| Human subjects | [ ] |
| Biohazardous substances | [ ] |
| Radioactive materials | [ ] |
| Handling chemicals | [ ] |
| Using lasers | [ ] |
| Supervisors are responsible for the ethics and safety compliance of undergraduate students. | |
| SECTION C: STUDENT INFORMATION | |
| Do not complete this section unless/until the student is identified. | |
| Name: | |
| McGill ID: | |
| Email (first [dot] last [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca): | |
| Phone: | |
| Program (E.g., B.Sc. Maj. Chem. Min. Biol.): | |
| Level (U0 / U1 / U2 / U3): | |
| Student signature - I have not applied for another '396' course in this term: | |
| SECTION D: APPROVALS. | |
| Do not complete this section unless/until the student is identified. | |
| Supervisor: I give my permission for the student identified in section C to register for this project under my supervision. | |
| Supervisor's signature: | |
| Date: | |
| Unit chair/director/designate: I certify that this project conforms to departmental requirements for 396 courses. | |
| Unit chair/director/designate's name: | |
| Unit chair/director/designate's signature: | |
| Date: | |