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ALT Students from PHYS 230: The Physics of Sound class and their self-made instruments: (left to right) Ian Epperly playing pitched bottles, Anthony Del Grosso playing a pan flute, Owen Chester playing a PVC clarinet, Jack Bradbury playing a mini-guitar, Zane Spice playing a PVC aulos, Jena Nelson playing a cajón (box drum), Autumn Langlois playing a xylophone/glockenspiel, and Grace Sharrett playing a tambourine.
Today the sun will rise at 12:40 in Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow), Alaska to set just 63 minutes later. It will be the last time the town sees the sun this year. Next sunrise will be on January 23rd, 2023 after 1584 hours of darkness [time & date: buff.ly/3V9DBAa]
Better late than never! Some students obtained some excellent images of the lunar eclipse, one with their own telescope and one using the Selu Observatory.
ALT Lunar eclipse from November 2022 - taken by Sam Williams (used by permission)
ALT Lunar eclipse from November 2022 - image by Dustin Kirby from the Selu Observatory
Here's a cool comic describing the results of the Microscope experiment which showed that weak equivalence principle, that inertial and gravitational mass are the same, was true to a part in 10^15!!! physics.aps.org/articles/v15…
Stealing this from @pickover - can you make these equations true using only mathematical operators? You may not write any numbers, just mathematical operators.
Our public JWST celebration event runs Friday and Saturday! Stop by, learn about JWST, see a planetarium show, paint, or stop by our demos! Full details in the images! #jwst@radfordu
Daishaun Jackson showed his model of a classic physics problem, falling through a hole that traverses the earth using a model with non-uniform density. 7/7
Jordan Eagle ('16) is featured on Clemson's web page. She's finishing up her PhD at Clemson and will be starting work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in August! news.clemson.edu/ph-d-studen…