Cambridge Science Festival Event Description & Supplemental Materials
UPDATE: Sneak preview~ short exhibition of
four demonstrations especially selected by legendary lecturer
and internet sensation MIT Professor Walter
Lewin who will be on hand to welcome participants of
the April 29th Science Trivia Challenge event
(demonstrations on display 5:15PM until 6PM near entrance to triva challenge
event which is scheduled for 6pm until 9pm - Kirsch Auditorium (32-123)
at MIT's Stata Center Vassar & Main Street)
IMPORTANT NOTE: The event has been scheduled for 10AM - 3PM on Saturday May 2, 2009 - see the preview and come to the full exhibition on Saturday! An incomparably exhaustive and potentially competively exciting collection of demonstrations -in what will be most assuredly an intimate, hair raising, and elucidatory opportunity- will be presented by the MIT Physics Department's own specialist team of technical instructors representing years of eccelectic experience and study drawing on all arenas of physics, science, and the art of theatrical physical science.
The event proposed will be an exhibition by the MIT Physics Department's Technical Services Group consisting of a selection of its Lecture Demonstrations, interactive desktop experiments used in the MIT TEAL (Technology Enabled Active Learning) format for teaching physics, and presentations of our collection of Physics Demonstration videos (available on the web: http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/physicsdemos) all held in the versatile Studio Physics space on MIT campus (Building 26 room 152, next to the STATA center).
The goal of this event will be to encourage interest in physics and the empirical
scientific method in general while highlighting the varied approaches to
undergraduate physics education at MIT. Presented in one of the two TEAL
classrooms, visitors
will encounter tables with interactive desktop experiments focusing on such
areas as kinematic and dynamic motion, electrostatics, (electro)magnetism,
resonance and oscillations. Larger demonstrations will be on hand for investigation
of physical phenomenon but also to present the more theatrical aspects of
a compelling lecture for a large audience. Finally, displayed on the many
projection
screens in the TEAL classroom will be screenings of our ever expanding collection
of videos, available on the web, of those demonstrations either too elaborate
or dangerous to present in the usual classroom setting.
Experienced Technical Instructors will be on hand throughout the event to present
topics, assist with equipment, and elucidate concepts.
Additional supplemental materials will continue to be posted.
UPDATE 1/21/2009:
MIT
Physics Demo's Flickr Photostream
Building 26 room 152
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