{"id":21148,"date":"2013-11-20T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=21148"},"modified":"2021-11-12T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T02:58:17","slug":"uh-manoa-holds-physics-and-astronomy-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/20\/uh-manoa-holds-physics-and-astronomy-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa holds physics and astronomy open house"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_21152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21152\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pa-openhouse.jpg\" alt=\"person talking to a group\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pa-openhouse.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pa-openhouse-260x190.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The annual Physics and Astronomy Open House features live demonstrations and research presentations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.hawaii.edu\/\">Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/a> will hold an open house on Saturday, November 23, 8:30 a.m.&#8211;noon. The event is free and open to the public. Local high school teachers and students have also been invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Ten sites in <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s Watanabe Hall and one in Krauss Annex will feature physics and astronomy research and applications of physics described by university faculty and students.<\/p>\n<p>The open house includes a variety of live demonstrations that illustrate physics principles in mechanics, optics and electricity and magnetism. The hands-on demonstrations will allow attendees to experiment with angular momentum and center of gravity, operate a hover craft, check out polarized light effects, experience the power of electromagnets and more.<\/p>\n<h2>Classroom topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs Boson&#8212;The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics honored the theory that predicted the Higgs boson. Learn about the experiment at CERN that confirmed this fundamental particle.<\/li>\n<li>Nanophysics&#8212;Examine the world through ultra-high resolution microscopes, including a state-of-the-art atomic force microscope and a scanning-tunneling electron microscope, both of which produce stunning images of atomic surface structures.<\/li>\n<li>Free Electron Laser&#8212;See the laser invented by <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s John Madey, which has a wide variety of fundamental and applied research uses, from ultra-sensitive LIDAR and remote sensing, to medical research applications for hard- and soft-tissue studies.<\/li>\n<li>Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment in Space&#8212;Learn how scientists are using the unique environment of space to advance knowledge of the universe by searching for antimatter and dark matter, and by measuring cosmic rays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other sessions focus on a variety of physics topics, including particle detection, neutrinos and dark matter. A full agenda is available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.hawaii.edu\/\">News and Events section of the Physics and Astronomy website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Activities begin at 8:30 a.m., with an overview of the events in the <abbr title=\"Hawaii Institute of Geophysics\">HIG<\/abbr> Auditorium. Groups will then follow a schedule until 11  a.m. The public is welcome to join one of the groups before 11 a.m. and\/or to visit sites informally from 11  a.m. until noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Department of Physics and Astronomy will hold an open house on Saturday, November 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,124,9],"class_list":["post-21148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-astronomy","tag-physics","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21148"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151681,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148\/revisions\/151681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}