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Research projects involving inner city high school students
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Research projects involving inner city high school students

A. E. Lord
American journal of physics, v 43(7), pp 602-605
Jul 1975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.10095
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Abstract

An account is given of some research projects undertaken by inner city high school students in the Physics Department at Drexel University during the last four years. The students, from low income families, are sponsored by the Neighborhood Youth Corps (which was established by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964) with the hope that they will gain worthwhile work experience. Individual projects have included measurement of noise levels around the University, frequency analysis of impulsive sounds, effect of water content on Young’s modulus of various woods, effect of sulfuric acid exposure on the mechanical properties of wood, and the effect of air pollution, in the form of SO2, on the mechanical properties of wet wood. This latter project is being pursued vigorously; new and interesting results appear to be emanating from these particular studies. The article ends with the author’s feelings and conclusions about such a program, gained from four years of experience.

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