Physics seminar Oct. 21 on “Imaging Shock Waves”

A physics seminar on “Imaging Shock Waves” will be held Friday, October 21, from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. in Hagen Hall 325. The speaker is Linda Winkler from MSUM.

A group called AlPha runs summer workshops for faculty to become comfortable with specific instructional laboratories. She will present her experience at Bethel University this summer where she used a high-speed camera to image the shock formed in front of a ping-pong ball emerging from a vacuum cannon, as well as the shock wave formed in a small shock tube experiment. She will present some of the videos, and demonstrate how to image compressed air.

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