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Physics Show Extravaganza is April 28

Annual crowd-pleaser

Annual Extravaganza teaches, entertains.

2009-04-29
Minnesota State University, Mankato Media Relations Office news release [4/13/2009]

Entertaining demonstrations illustrating the laws of physics will be presented by faculty and staff from the Minnesota State Mankato Department of Physics & Astronomy Tuesday, April 28.

The annual, crowd-pleasing Physics Show Extravaganza, featuring new and traditional demonstrations, will be from 7-8 p.m. in Trafton Science Center C-121. It is free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public, and parents are encouraged to bring their children.

The program includes demonstrations about sound, light, magnetism and other real-life events. Physics faculty members explain the phenomena and serve as subjects for the tests, including:

• A professor sandwiched between two boards, each containing 2,000 nails, compressed by a concrete block that is smashed with a sledgehammer;
• A professor playing a trumpet made out of a piece of plastic tubing.

Physics Show team members include Tom Brown, Eric Koser, Ramesh Misra, Russell Palma, Michael Peters, Andy Roberts, Louis Schwartzkopf and Hai-Sheng Wu.

Free parking will be available after 6:30 p.m. in Lot 20 (corner of Warren Street and Stadium Road), or at other campus lots.

Those who want more information may call (507) 389-5743.

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