Physics Club
Since its founding in 1996, the Physics Club has staged a great variety of events. In addition to regular business meetings and guest speakers, the Physics Club has traveled to science museums, toured research facilities at other universities, hosted carnival-style fun physics demonstrations, judged and mentored school science fairs, united with other SCSU student clubs for tutoring, study groups, volleyball, kickball, football, bowling, billiards, and has held movie nights where focusing on physics, the universe, mathematics and comedy, including What the Bleep Do We Know, Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy, A Beautiful Mind, Weird Science, Cosmos, Buckaroo Bonzai, Spaceballs, and more. Our fundraising is supported by bake sales that are held on campus and have raised over $1300 in some years. The Physics Club plays a central role in conducting the Physics Department Open House, where prospective students meet faculty, students, & alumni; tour SCSU research facilities, observe both subtle and dramatic physics demonstrations, and enjoy yummy snacks. SoPE is also a past host of the SPS New England Regional conference, where students from fifteen or more different universities came together to share interests and interact with internationally renowned physicists including Michio Kaku and S. James Gates, who gave compelling and entertaining talks on their inspirational research.
While the Physics Club has been somewhat dormant over the past fiew semesters, we wish to change that. This semester, the club will be hosting social activities such as movies or bowling night. We will also engange in some fun and exciting projects like building a plasma speaker, a devise that plays music from movement in the air molecules due to arcing current. We also plan to do some sort of contest, such as a catapult lunches. Our meetings are every monday at noon and they will consist of pizza, projects, and pondering the many wonders of our physics universe.
