Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 2004
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American Physical Society, 46th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, 15-19 November, 2004, Savannah, GA. MEETING I
Physics
Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
The ongoing Wonders of Physics outreach program at the University of Wisconsin has teamed up with the new Center for Magnetic Self-Organization of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas (CMSO), an NSF Physics Frontier Center, in a variety of outreach efforts intended to attract students to plasma physics. Chief among these efforts are a live-action calculus competition--the ``Integration Bee''--in which students compete for prizes by doing integrals at the blackboard, and a video, tentatively entitled the ``Wonders of Plasma,'' which introduces CMSO-related plasma physics to a high-school level audience. Meanwhile, the Wonders of Physics continues to ``win fans for physics'' by putting on entertaining and informative shows before live audiences at the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere. Approximately 10,000 people have seen a Wonders of Physics show since the last APS DPP conference. Several new fusion-related demonstrations have been added to the Wonders of Physics Traveling Show in the past year. Some of them can be seen at the conference at the Plasma Expo on Thursday and Friday. This work supported by US DOE and NSF.
Reardon Jim
Sprott Clint
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