Why is a Cloud Like a Volcano?
There are 8 spots open to MAGPI members with H.323 videoconference capabilities.
Program Description
Join Bill Berner, Physics Demonstration Lab Coordinator, for a presentation of buoyancy and thermal convection that investigates why something floats and why heat can change whether something floats. What is found will be used to explain some of the most important behaviors in weather and geology. All ideas will include demonstrations, many of which can be reproduced with materials found in the home.
Videoconference Outline:
Welcome/Intros - 5 minutes
Introduction of Buoyancy/thermal convection - 10 Minutes
Hands On Demonstration - 10 Minutes
Question and Answer Session - 15 Minutes
Wrap-Up - 5 Minutes
About the Presenter
Bill Berner is a lifetime physics teacher with experience in all phases of the job. Bill has twenty-five years teaching high school, from conceptual physics to Advanced Placement and fifteen years of university experience at all levels; teaching, lab hardware and computer use, the design of courses and programs. Bill has extensive involvement in professional organizations and teacher enrichment programs.
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October 20, 2011 10:00am - 10:45am *
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The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, the LRSM, is the center for materials research at the University of Pennsylvania. It was established in 1960 as one of the first Materials Research Laboratories to be funded by the forerunner of DARPA. In 1972 funding was taken over by the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, NSF-DMR under the aegis of the MRL program. In 1996, the core of the materials research program at the LRSM was supported as a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, MRSEC, funded by an NSF-DMR. The current MRSEC grant (DMR05-20020) supports the interdisciplinary research of affiliated faculty from three Schools: Arts & Sciences (Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy), Engineering & Applied Sciences (Bioengineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics) and Medicine (Physiology, Biochemistry & Biophysics).
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