Choose a machine, appliance, or thing and find out how and why it works.

Assignment
How Things Work
You are to choose a machine, appliance, or thing that YOU own, wish you owned, or have in your house, and find out how and why it works. Then you will write a two (2) page paper, double spaced, 12 pt font, explaining the physics behind how it works. In the words of Louis Bloomfield, “I don’t want the best paper ever written on the topic; I want the best paper that the student can write in his or her own words.” This paper may raise more questions than it answers, but that’s fine – in fact, I prefer it that way.
Keep your paper simple. For example, don’t try to explain everything about a television, but concentrate on just one feature of it, like the remote control, or the screen. Imagine you’re writing this paper for someone else in this class – so they know a little physics but are not necessarily an expert in science.