Kettering Physics Club (A and B)

The B-section Physics Club had an interesting set of meetings during the spring term in support of our new interdisciplinary engineering major in sensors. Topics included the sensors for autonomy, Robot Operating System, WiFi Round Trip Time and ultrasound for indoor positioning, and lidar. Prof. Ronald Tackett also gave a presentation on his new introductory course on sensors.

Congratulations to our A-section students for their awards!

We had the B-section Physics Awards Event on June 9. We recognized students who had outstanding performance in introductory physics, supplemental instruction leaders in physics, and Physics Club officers. We also inducted Gabriel Johnson into the Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society. Physics Club provided lunch for the event. Thanks go out to all the students, staff, and faculty who attended and who work every day to make our program great!

We had an A-section Physics Awards event in person for the first time since 2019 last week on Thursday, March 17! Students received recognition for outstanding performance in the introductory course sequence, serving as supplemental instruction leaders, and serving as officers in the Physics Club. We also inducted a new member, Sivanesan Kaniyur Muruganandam, into Sigma Pi Sigma, the Physics Honor Society. Thanks go out to Physics Club for providing lunch for the event and to all the students, faculty, and staff for all of their efforts.

Happy Halloween! Physics Club carved some pumpkins at last week's meeting while we consumed cider and donuts.

Flint will experience a partial solar eclipse at daybreak on Thursday morning. Unfortunately, the weather forecast doesn't look promising. For more information, see https://www.space.com/sunrise-ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-june-2021

Congratulations to all of our students for their academic and service awards at the 2021 B-section Physics Department Awards Event! We recognized introductory students with The Outstanding Physics Performance (TOPP) award. We then recognized our departmental Supplemental Instructor, Physics Club officers, SPS Travel and Scholarship awardees. Finally, we inducted three new members into our chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma, The Physics Honor Society. Thanks go out to all the physics students, faculty, and staff for making the Physics Department great!

The potential anomaly in the muon's magnetic moment explained in cartoon form by Jorge Cham:

The Muon g–2 Anomaly Explained Jorge Cham, aka, PHD Comics, illustrates the excitement over the muon anomaly results in a set of cartoons he made for Physics.

A superior mirage:

Walker 'stunned' to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall David Morris encounters rare optical illusion known as superior mirage while out on coastal stroll

Please join us for a presentation on Thursday, March 4, from 12:25 - 1:15 pm by Joshua Konzer from the McLaren Proton Therapy Center:

"Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment:

The best use of a particle beam since ghost eradication"

From radiopharmaceuticals to atomic scalpels, let's learn about the applications of particle beams in Medical Physics. We will survey the "Physics" part of Medical Physics and see how engineering plays a key role in these lifesaving technologies.

Join the Zoom Meeting at:

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Meeting ID: 910 4870 3618 Passcode: 511687

This event is being co-sponsored by the Physics Club, Physics Department, and Kettering University.

A-section Physics Club is having a virtual meeting in their Physics Club Room in Gather.town today. We're gathered around the virtual "TV" watching a previously-webcast SPS Colloquium by former Kettering professor and current Penn State professor Dan Russell on the Acoustics of Ping Pong.

Physics Club, along with the Kettering Physics Department and Kettering University, are co-sponsoring this week's presentation about the McLaren Proton Beam Center by Lex Talionis.

When: Thursday, November 5, 2020, 12:15-1:15 pm
Where: Zoom Meeting (see link below)

Proton Therapy: What, Why and Where

It's closer than you think! Take a behind the scenes look at McLaren's Proton Beam Cancer Treatment Center. You'll find out what it takes to accelerate protons over 200 MeV, learn why proton beam therapy is closer to surgery than chemotherapy and take a look behind the scenes at your neighborhood synchrotron.

Please join us via the Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 933 7667 6225
Passcode: 243642
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