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UCSDYoung Physicists Program2009-2010 |
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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). |
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October 10 |
Lab: Measurements Demo: Circles, shadows, pendulums and more - measurements you can do at home. Guest professor: Prof. Hans Paar | volunteer sign-up sheet |
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November 7 |
Lab: Quirky Work and Synergizing with Energy Energy is all around us: electricity, gasoline, the sun... but what is it, and can we turn it into something useful? Demo: Bottle Rocket and Smashing Tomatoes Guest professor: TBA | volunteer sign-up sheet |
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December 5 |
Lab: Momentum conservation - why the fixation?
Demo: TBA | volunteer sign-up sheet |
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January 9 | Lab: TBA | volunteer sign-up sheet |
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February 6 | Lab: TBA | volunteer sign-up sheet |
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March 13 | Lab: TBA | volunteer sign-up sheet |
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April 10 | Lab: TBA | volunteer sign-up sheet |
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May 15 | Lab: TBA | volunteer sign-up sheet |
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Physics Dept,
Physics Demos,
YPP Photos,
The 1 Labs,
Previous Presentations,
The Archive
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| 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) |