Community Physics Festival
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing!
The first annual Community Physics Festival.
The Community Physics Festival is a day for the greater Morgantown community
to come to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at WVU! Here anyone can learn
about physics and astronomy in general, what kinds of research goes on in the Department,
or whatever your curious about in a family friendly environment. The Festival includes
Pop-Science Talks, Planetarium Shows, Laboratory Tours, and Physics Demonstrations.
Take a look at last year's events
Demos
Physics demonstrations vary but often include:
- Electromagnetic Can Crusher
- Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
- Telescope Viewing (weather dependent)
- Miniature gravitational wave detector
- NASA Heat Shield
- Remote Glow Discharge eXperiment (RGDX) [ From Princeton Plasma Physics Labs]
- And much, much more!
Popular Science Talks
2019
- The Sun
- Quantum Computing
- Building a Galaxy-Sized Gravitational Wave Detector
- Making a New Earth
- Bonnie G. Holmes: The Superglue of Apollo
- Radio Astronomy
- How Big Is the Universe? (In Football Fields)
- Fusion: Taming the Stars
Lab Tours