By: Ryan Johnson, INFORUM MOORHEAD – While it was built with valid scientific goals in mind, the premise of the six-wheeled, 2,000-pound Curiosity rover and the engineering feat that landed it on Mars early Monday could strike some as more science fiction than reality. “We have landed a nuclear-powered truck on another world,” said Juan Cabanela, astronomy professor at Minnesota […]
A physics seminar on “Matters of the Heart: The Physics of the Electrocardiogram” will be held Friday, December 2, from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. in Hagen Hall 325. The speaker is MSUM Professor Ananda Shastri. What is an electrocardiogram (ECG)? Why does the heart create an electrical signal? Why are so many wires attached to the patient? What can an […]
Three MSUM physics majors participated on Nov. 4, 2011 in the international University Physics Competition. Shouvik Bhattacharya, Meredith Mc Linn, and Murshid Saqlain participated as a team, in which they modelled the cost of sending a payload into lower Earth orbit and submitted their formal solution for professional review. The team of three was sponsored by the MSUM Society of […]
Friday, Nov. 18 • 2:30 p.m. • Hagen Hall 325 A physics seminar on “Radiation Therapy” will be held Friday, November 18, from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. in Hagen Hall 325. The speaker is Libby Hegge, from Sanford Health. Medical physicists supervise the use of radiation to treat cancerous lesions and ensure radiation safety in radiation oncology.
Friday, Nov. 11 • 2:30-3:20 p.m. • Hagen Hall 325 A physics seminar on Physics of Everyday Things: Scattering of light, fuel cell car and carrot osmometers will be presented by physics seminar students on Friday, Nov. 11. Have you ever wondered about how light scatters through a liquid? How much energy a fuel car can get from hydrogen? How […]