CAP World Year of Physics Open House

Saturday, November 5, 2005
12:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Physics Building

Tours, demonstrations and displays

See:

  • The “Why is it So? Show”
  • The speed of light measured with a microwave oven and a piece of cheese!
  • A cosmic ray detector in operation
  • Space and Atmospheric Studies research facilities
  • A Tokomak – a nuclear fusion prototype
  • A scanning tunneling microscope
  • Learn about the department and its history
  •  … and much more.