UCSD

Young Physicists Program


2008-2009

Important: Every student must submit a completed waiver at the beginning of his or her first meeting.

NEWS:

Overview:
The UCSD Young Physicists Program will bring middle school and high school students from across San Diego together with physics students and professors from UCSD on Saturday mornings each month. A typical morning can involve college-level lab activities, interactive demos, lots of interaction with under/graduate students and a presentation by a different guest professor each month touching on cutting-edge research and advanced concepts in physics, as well as reasons for choosing physics as a career and tips on how to make it happen.

Through fun, somewhat simplified, college-level lab projects, with graduate students and undergraduates helping, participants will discover first-hand what college physics involves and be amazed at what they accomplish and learn. UCSD professors will describe exciting research topics in everyday words, giving an idea of how many different concentrations there are in physics and how important physics is in the world. Fun experiments from our sizeable Interactive Lecture Demo collection will not just illustrate the sort of surprises that Nature has to offer, but will also be available for close-up inspection and experimentation. It will also be possible to get help and advice for science fair projects. For your benefit, students, please read through the instructions for the lab before the meeting. You may not understand a lot of what is there, depending on your level of experience, but you will learn more in the lab if you read ahead (even if only in the car on the way to the meeting).

Useful Q&A (please read).


Sign up sheet:
Students Currently Enrolled

Directions:
We meet from 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM in the 1A/1B Labs on the 2nd floor of Warren Lecture Hall.
The lab is at the southwest corner of the building, on the (outdoor) 2nd floor.
Park in the lot at the intersection of Voigt Drive and Lyman Lane, just past the field.


Dates:

November 8
 Lab: Position and Velocity
Demo: Ethanol Rockets
Guest professor: Frank Wuerthwein, The Large Hadron Collider 		volunteer sign-up sheet
December 13
 Lab: Wearable Circuit (one of the favorites)
Demo: An Electromagnetic Assortment
Guest professor: Brian Keating, Astronomy from Antarctica 		volunteer sign-up sheet
January 10
 Lab: The physics of waves and sound
Demo: Chladni Plates and more
Guest professor: Oleg Shpyrko 		volunteer sign-up sheet
February 14
 Lab: Inelastic Collisions
Demo: Ballistic Pendulum, Uphill Roller
Guest professor: Ivan Schuller 		volunteer sign-up sheet
March 14
 Lab: Electrostatics
Demo: Van de Graff Generator
Guest professor: Alison Coil, Lighting Up The Dark: How galaxies trace dark matter on large scales 		volunteer sign-up sheet
April 11
 Lab: Circuits
Demo: Jacob's Ladder, Force Lines
Guest professor: TBA 		volunteer sign-up sheet
May 9
 Physics Laboratory Visits - come see current research going on at UCSD. volunteer sign-up sheet
June 13
 Lab: Optical Instruments and The Eye
Demo: Crush the Can and The Torricelli Effect
Guest professor: Dr. Lawrence Woolf - Principal Optical Scientist for General Atomics 		volunteer sign-up sheet


More:
Physics Dept, Physics Demos, YPP Photos, The 1 Labs, Previous Presentations, The Archive


Contact:
Chris Palmer or Yaniv Rosen - ucsd.ypp@gmail.com - (650) 793 4952 (Yaniv's phone)
(please email unless you need an immediate response - e.g., directions)


Last updated: June 07, 2009