This coming Spring I'll be running a Mechanics I lab for freshman (as a teaching assistant) and I'll have some say as to the way I do it. So I was thinking it would be nice if I could find some research papers to show the students. I think it might be good for them to read actual papers written by actual physicists. They would have to be something readable and at least partially understandable by an average freshman physics major.
I thought that maybe I could find some older papers in Physical Review. I could also try to scour arxiv.org, but that might be more difficult.
Do any of you have suggestions as to other places I can look, or do you know of some papers that would suit? The papers need to be about classical physics (though not necessarily just mechanics) and need to be written at a low enough level that my students will be able to tell at least what they're about, even if they can't follow all of it.