Instead of writing an individual term paper, you may work together with 1 or 2 other people (for a total of 2 or 3 people) on a group term paper. This group term paper will meet the same requirement as the individual term paper. The paper will receive one grade and all of the members of the group will receive that same grade.
The expectations for a group term paper are exactly the same as for an individual term paper except that the length should be 3000 to 3500 words (the equivalent of approximately 10 double-spaced, typewritten pages). You should use this increased length to make a more thorough examination of the physical concepts involved in your chosen object.
My reason for offering this group term paper option is to encourage the members of a group to talk about physical concepts, using the language of physics, and thus help one another develop their understandings of both physics and the object at hand.
Once you have formed a group and have begun to prepare material on a particular object, you may not break up and write individual term papers on that same object. If your group does break up, you must each begin again on new and different objects.