Science is Fun

Every year the students and faculty of the physics department arrange to have some young local students visit for a PHYSICS IS FUN show. In spring 2004 the department provided three local groups with shows. Physics majors and faculty run through a host of demonstrations that illustrate principles of science that range from the basic forces of nature like electricity to the way matter behaves and changes.

A sample of the topic covered can be discovered by viewing our power point slides.

SLIDE SHOW

Comments from the audience are here.

Here are a few samples of the fun.

Bowling Balls	Energy	pay attention
Cannons	Rotation	Complex rotation
Momentum	Electricity	Shocking
Ouch	Cicuits	Lights on
Wire where?	Good Job	Models
THMS16.JPG	THMS17.JPG	THMS18.JPG
THMS19.JPG	High Voltage	Transformers
Simple Pictures	Sparks Fly	Van de Graff
Planetarium	Stars	Materials
Cold	THMS29.JPG	Light
THMS31.JPG	Balloons	Pressure
Expansion	Contraction	Properties
Explosions	BANG	THMS40.JPG
Moving Charges	Van de Graff	Van de Graff
Van de Graff	Van de Graff	Models
Hig Voltages	Circuits	Wrap up
Wrap up	Wrap up	Wrap up
Wrap up	Final remarks	THMS55.JPG
SPS& Faculty	SPS& Faculty	SPS& Faculty