The thirteenth
season of School of new physicists is over. This has been a long year, a lot
has been done, accomplished, worked on. Lets take a look a the most memorable
moments.
We have had
sessions on engineering physics, culinary physics, optics, quantum physics and
chaos.
In the
engineering physics session, we learned how we evaluate material properties,
and how they are used to construct stable, earthquake proof structures. In the lab
work, we had a competition for building the most earthquake proof tower. It was
a lot of fun seeing the towers crumble under the pressure.
In culinary
physics we looked at how ice crystal size effect ice cream consistency and
taste. The microwave was put to test, we learned how it works. In the practical
part, we measured how the foam in carbonated drinks decreases in time.
In optics
we learned about how to take the best photography, what are the apertures and all
the other numbers and letters on your camera. After that, we built our own spectroscopes,
and analyzed different light sources.
After that,
some quantum physics was necessary, we started from the basics, with the
historical development. Then, something new was needed, we learned about what are
quantum games, how they are used to analyse simple systems and how to explain
the CHSH game.
In the end,
we finished chaotically – with chaos. We looked at weather forecasts, and why
they tend to be so inaccurate and ended with Romeo and Juliet, and their
chaotic love story.
It was
great to be together with you all, see you next year.
