Hixson Lied Science Building Room G81, Creighton University - 2500 California Plaza - Omaha NE - 68178 - Announcements
Physics Department Seminar
Investigating the operation and construction of the Gee-Haw Whammy-Diddle
Tri Tran and Dan McGinnis
The Gee-Haw Whammy-Diddle is a rural, usually handmade toy. Comprised of a wooden dowel carved with regularly spaced grooves along its length, a small propeller affixed to the end is made to rotate by rubbing a rod along the grooves. The rotational direction of the propeller can be controlled via the use of the location of the thumb of the hand holding the dowel. In this paper, we will investigate the hypotheses previously made explaining the physical mechanisms by which this toy operates. In addition, we will determine the effect that several different construction methods (e.g. material and shape of propeller and dowel, spacing of grooves), have on the viability and observable properties of motion.
Physics Department Seminar 03-05-2010
Development of fluorescent nuclear track detector technology for mixed radiation field dosimetry
Jeff Sykora
Landauer Inc.
Oklahoma State University, Department of Physics
Physics Club: Life of Brian
Alumni Award Celebration
Please join us Thursday October 9th at 12:30 for a celebration as we announce the winner of the Alumni Scholarship. Cake and refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited.
10-03-2008 Physics Seminar - Joey Butterworth
Modeling Ultra Peripheral Collisions
Joey Butterworth
Physics Department, Creighton University
Through the use of Monte Carlo methods, we are able to simulate electromagnetic interactions of nuclei that traveling by one another--Also known as ultra peripheral collisions. This presentation will give a brief look into Monte Carlo methods and how they are applied to the simulation of ultra peripheral collisions.
10-03-2008 Physics Seminar - Lauren Dwyer
The Nuclear Science Merit Badge
Lauren Dwyer
Physics Department, Creighton University
Each March, Creighton University hosts a workshop for local Boy Scouts to learn the uses, applications, and basics of nuclear science. As part of outreach efforts, a webpage has been created that serves as a comprehensive resource for the Nuclear Science Merit Badge for all scouts nationally. The webpage has several features that help a scout complete the badge.
Field Day 2013 - The Space Race
This spring, the Creighton University Society of Physics Students (CUSPS) will sponsor Physics Field Day, a day of activities and excitement for high school students. The theme of the 2013 Physics Field Day is "The Space Race," with a secondary theme of "The Last 50 years" to honor the 50th Anniversary of CUSPS!
The day is filled with competitions that require understanding and application of basic physical principles. We in the CUSPS believe that physics can be enjoyed in a hands-on, competitive spirit. There is an event for everyone!
It is our hope that the diversity of the Physics Field Day events will encourage many students to participate and challenge themselves.
Information on how to register for this event is found in the attached rulebook.
Dr. Zepf's Haunted Physics Lab
Free and Open to the Public! Come Visit Dr. Zepf's Haunted Physics Lab!
Visitors to the Haunted Physics Lab may enter the front entrance to the Hixson-Lied Science Building and follow the posted signs directing them to the Haunted Lab, which is located on the same floor as the entrance. Parking is available in the large parking lot between Burt and Cuming Streets, with entrance at 25th and Cuming. Click Here for a campus map
Field Day 2012
This spring, the Creighton University Society of Physics Students (CUSPS) will again sponsor Physics Field Day, a day of activities and excitement for high school students. The theme of the 2012 Physics Field Day is "The Universe," in light of the 2011 Nobel-Prize winning discovery regarding the accelerating expansion of the universe.
The rulebook can be found here.
The day is filled with competitions that require understanding and application of basic physical principles. We in the CUSPS believe that physics can be enjoyed in a hands-on, competitive spirit. There is an event for everyone!
It is our hope that the diversity of the Physics Field Day events will encourage many students to participate and challenge themselves.
Information on how to register for this event is found in the rulebook.
Physics Antique Roadshow
Tom Greenslade, Ph.D., one of the foremost experts on antique physics apparatus will present "The Creighton Physics Antique Road Show," during Creighton University's Department of Physics colloquium. Some of Creighton's antique apparatus, which includes items from the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition that was held in Omaha, will be on display in a nearby room.
The author of more than 200 articles, Greenslade writes on the history of physics, as well as giving lectures, demonstrations and laboratory experiments developed at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he served on the physics faculty from 1964 to 2002.
Greenslade serves as the chair of the committee on the History and Philosophy of Physics of the American Association of Physics Teachers, which awarded him a Distinguished Service Citation in 1987 and in 2002 listed him as one of the 75 most influential physics teachers and physicists in the United States.
