Interesting things to do in a physics society?

Very simply, I'm running my school's physics society this year. Any "fun" physics related things that anyone can think of would be greatly appreciated...

NothingCrushesUs

Reply 1

Aphotic Cosmos

17

Drop weights off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

:dontknow:

Reply 2

Drunk Punx

19

Make stuff explode?

No wait, that's Chemistry...

Reply 3

Square

13

build ridiculous drinking contraptions, involving funnels, pumps and lasers.

Reply 4

Katq

8

Thai-food nights, Anything-can-happen-Thursdays, Comic book store outings, organized knocking on female neighbour's doors.. :awesome:

Reply 5

perrytheplatypus

14

Build a nuclear fusion power plant?

Reply 6

Redbeard the Mighty

Discuss the interesting stuff that either isn't in the curriculum, or isn't covered very well by the curriculum.

Reply 7

daviesblue

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Katq

Thai-food nights, Anything-can-happen-Thursdays, Comic book store outings, organized knocking on female neighbour's doors.. :awesome:

anything-can-happen Thursdays sound abit risky to me, could try Halo nights or anything that Sheldon would approve off

Reply 8

beecher

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Katq

organized knocking on female neighbour's doors.. :awesome:

Reply 9

S-man10

18

A Video about the way how particles bond. :sexface:

Reply 10

theths

12

the replies on this thread basically prove that "fun physics" is a massive oxymoron.

watch the breakfast club, brian suggests a banquet where they all get together and suggest momentum and so forth?

Reply 11

Krakatoa

17

to be a fly on the wall in that room...

Reply 12

beecher

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i went to a physics society social they just drank real ale and were insufferable nerds
never again

Sheldon night

hmm, this is something we recently did.
How about explaining the physics of bubbles, basically you blow loads of bubbles around the classroom and all the kids will get excited. Then you talk about the physics and how they float, remain in spheres, have the cool rainbow effect and why the liquid on the surface of the bubble is shifting like mist...

...then what you can do is hoop some BIG bubbles with special gas and then use a lighted splinter to create miniature exploding fireballs xD.

We also had one where we put somebody inside a BIG bubble and never ever let them out...

Reply 15

Mendax_Sane

build a bomb, the bigger, the funner.

Reply 16

NothingCrushesUs

OP

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sarsi

hmm, this is something we recently did.
How about explaining the physics of bubbles, basically you blow loads of bubbles around the classroom and all the kids will get excited. Then you talk about the physics and how they float, remain in spheres, have the cool rainbow effect and why the liquid on the surface of the bubble is shifting like mist...

...then what you can do is hoop some BIG bubbles with special gas and then use a lighted splinter to create miniature exploding fireballs xD.

We also had one where we put somebody inside a BIG bubble and never ever let them out...