Season 10 of
School for Young Physicists is here
We are happy to have worked already for a decade to bring
bits of the wonderful world of physics to schoolchildren eager to learn. Ten
years ago, when the first session took place, we could never have imagined such
a continued interest both from physics students and schoolchildren, who already
have lots do in their studies. We hope this speaks for the quality of the
lessons we provide, and we will keep working hard to improve even more.
After summer, it seems people were impatient for some
physics as we gathered a record number of schoolchildren on the first lesson of
season 10. We had to accommodate a whopping 340 children, which we could thanks
to the new location of the faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry of the
University of Latvia.
In the first half of season 10 of SYP we touched upon the
physics of telecommunication, the mechanisms of climate, the motion of
rotation, and lastly cosmology and astrophysics. A couple of experiments in these
lessons were very well received. The children created Faraday cages and using
them determined the wavelength used by their telephones, and they discovered
and exoplanet using real raw astronomical observation data. Additionally to
organizing the sessions in the capital Riga, we also regularly visited cities
further away from it so that we can bring these lessons to people who can’t
make the regular journey to Riga.
