• Physics Table with the Chesley Lecturer

    Please join us for a lunchtime chat with Dr. Gabriela González for this week’s Physics table. We’ll meet Tuesday, January 18th, at noon. It will be a virtual lunch, so join via Zoom.

  • Chesley Lecture in Physics

    Dr. Gaby Gonzalez from Louisiana State University will join us virtually on Monday and Tuesday, January 17th and 18th for the annual Chesley Lecture. She will meet with various student groups, research groups, and classes in addition to giving a public lecture on Tuesday, January 17th at 7:00 pm.

  • Graders needed!

    Email Trenne Fields if you’re interested in picking up some grading hours. We need one more grader to help with Barry’s intro course, and one grader/observer to help with Cindy’s Astro 110 class (you should have some Astro experience for this). Please do so ASAP so we can get you set up and connected with the instructor. Thank you!

     

  • Upcoming comps presentations

    Larry Donahue
    Monday, January 24, 2022
    8:30 am on Zoom

    The modern baseball pitch: A physical perspective
    Even though the sport of baseball is a century and a half old, the motion of a baseball in the flight from a pitcher’s hand to home plate is not fully understood. With the introduction of Major League Baseball (MLB)’s Hawk-Eye StatCast system for the 2020 season, the league tracks precise data relating to a pitch’s position. Using publicly available data from Hawk-Eye StatCast, previously known force laws, and recent research on the effect of seams on the flight of a baseball, I derive equations of motion for a pitched ball and use them to create a model depicting the flight of a baseball. Before the pitch, I also examine the effect of various substances on a pitched ball and derive an equation to account for adhesive substances popular in MLB prior to recent rule enforcement.

  • REU at Cornell

    BTI 2022 Intern Update Now Accepting Applications!2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates Program at BTI & Cornell University Greetings from BTI, The 2022 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the…

  • Summer programs at U Penn or Wash

    Center for Engineering Mechanobiology (CEMB) Undergraduates Expanding Boundaries Summer 2022 Program The Center for Engineering Mechanobiology seeks motivated undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds for its Undergraduate Summer Research Experience Program.…

  • Physics grad program at UMass Lowell

    Graduate Physics program at UMass Lowell:  While our nominal deadline for Ph.D. applications is Jan 15, we will be giving full consideration to applications received by Feb 1 this year.…

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