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A Physics of Rock climbing course 9-Jan-2011 At 2:12:47 PM jacq

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If you have a dig around you'll see what sorts of things you can do - some nice open ended projects that you can choose to do - in teams if you want to! This is an overview:

"Research projects are open ended and students are encouraged to determine their own project. Projects are clearly limited by the scope of the seminar (6 units) and the availability of resources and funding. Nonetheless, there are many options: modeling of climbing systems (spread sheet, analytical models, finite element models), climber/physics education and curriculum development, simple experiments, climber psychology and habits survey, new equipment design/equipment improvement, and instrumentation for measurement of climbing systems. Students may work together or independently on projects according to the project scope and student inclination."

On this page you'll get an overview of the syllabus: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/special-programs/sp-255-physics-of-rock-climbing-spring-2006/syllabus/

I thought it looked really interesting...