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This faculty member is the Assistant Department Head and teaches introductory level physics.
Who is Vince Kuo?
This physicist developed theories of gravitation and mechanics, and invented differential calculus
Who is Isaac Newton?
This group meets weekly on Fridays from 1-2 PM and volunteers at local schools.
What is the Society of Physics Students?
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What is Ohm's Law?
This is a device that demonstrates the conservation of momentum and the conservation of energy with swinging spheres.
What is a Newton's Cradle?
This faculty member is famous for their basketball & sleeping skills.
Who is Dr. Callan?
This person discovered electromagnetic induction and devised first electrical transformer
Who is Michael Faraday?
This group is the honor society for physics and helps with outreach and registration guidance.
What is Sigma Pi Sigma?
The equation that describes the relationship between a static electric field and electric charges
This is a demonstration that shows light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles
What is the double slit experiment?
This faculty member teaches upper and lower-level physics and is famous for comparing E-days to a popular 2nd law...
Who is Dr. Sarkar?
This person demonstrated that the energy flow of electromagnetic waves could be calculated by an equation
Who is John Henry Poynting?
This group meets monthly on Thursday nights and gives guidance to (primarily) women in physics.
What is the Society of Women in Physics?
The law that states that the entropy of a system approaches a constant value when its temperature approaches absolute zero.
What is the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
An optical experiment that "produces interference fringes by splitting a beam of light so that one beam strikes a fixed mirror and the other a movable mirror".
What is a Michelson interferometer?
This faculty member has a weakness for cold brew coffee and lives in Boulder, CO.
Who is Laith Haddad?
This person formulated the quantum theory; explained wavelength distribution of blackbody radiation
Who is Max Planck?
This meeting is Tuesdays 4-5 pm in Coorstek and features outside speakers and professional development.
What is Physics Colloquium?
In quantum mechanics, this is an operator corresponding to the total energy of that system, including both kinetic energy and potential energy
What is the Hamiltonian?
A demo that shows that "a curve in which a body starting from a point and acted on by an external force will reach another point in a shorter time than by any other path. "
What is the Brachistochrone curve?
This faculty member teaches upper and lower-level physics and recently worked for Epilog Laser.
Who is Pat Kohl?
This person discovered the an effect whereby light is emitted by a particle passing through a medium at a speed greater than that of light in the medium
Who is Pavel A. Cherenkov?
A national non-profit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics.
What is the American Physical Society?
This is an electronic circuit with two stable states that can be used to store binary data.
What is a Flip-Flop?
An SPS demo that "releases doughnut-shaped air movements — similar to smoke rings but larger and stronger"
What is a vortex cannon?