Category: Physics

  • The Double Planet

    John F. Lindner

    Next week the New Horizons spacecraft falls through (or “flies by”) the Pluto-Charon binary system. This week New Horizons photos reveal dramatic differences between Pluto and Charon, despite their presumed common origin in an interplanetary collision. (By the way, some astronomers — and apparently the New Horizons science team — pronounce “Charon” more like “Charlene”,…

  • Guest Blog: Avi Vajpeyi ’18

    Susan Lehman

    My first internship at Wooster has been a highly rewarding experience. Justine and I had the privilege to work with Dr. Lehman and Dr. Jacobs on a Wooster project that has been ongoing for over two decades – The Bead Pile Experiment. The essence of the project is the creation of a pile, using small…

  • BWISER and summer outreach

    Susan Lehman

    One of the Wooster summer traditions is the BWISER science camp for 7th and 8th grade girls.  The physics department has been responsible for an evening of demos for the campers since before I came to the College in 2003, and I’ve taken over responsibility for running our highly-choreographed rotation of nearly 100 girls through…

  • Criticality in Sandpiles and in the Brain

    Susan Lehman

    I’ve started following various science sites on Twitter as a way to keep up on the latest research, and last week an interesting article popped up on Phys.org with the title “Functioning brain follows famous sand pile model”.  Since my current research on avalanches on the beadpile is a essentially an experimental investigation of criticality…

  • Commencement

    Susan Lehman

    The class of 2015 graduated in style on May 11.  Those of us who have been around a while (that would be just me, this year!) were surprised to find that faculty and students were lining up in the Oak Grove on the north side of Kauke and that Commencement itself was on the quad…

  • April is the busiest month

    Susan Lehman

    So many things happened in the department in April that I got totally behind. In fact, April was so busy that I’ve only barely caught up here at the end of May. But, some great things happened so I want to post about them even if it is a little behind times. First – junior…

  • Strange Nonchaotic Stars

    John F. Lindner

    On the second day of my University of Hawai’i sabbatical, I began to work with space telescope data that would invigorate the study of variable stars and justify my NASA T-shirts. While the brightness of stars like the sun is nearly constant, the brightness of other stars changes with time. Exploiting the unprecedented capabilities of the planet-hunting Kepler space…

  • Wooster Physics in Hawai’i!

    John F. Lindner

    Aloha! Thanks to Wooster’s generous sabbatical program, I’m spending the 2014-2015 academic year at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa on the island of O’ahu in Honolulu, and I’m learning my Hawaiian accents. I live in a very small studio apartment with spectacular views of the ocean, Diamond Head or Lē’ahi (which I call Lily Crater), and…

  • Wooster Physics in San Antonio!

    Susan Lehman

    Welcome! Our goal is to use this site to share more information about what is going on in the department! Our annual attendance at the APS March Meeting seemed like a great place to start. Four students and I all traveled to San Antonio March 2 to 5 for the biggest gathering of physicists in…

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