Open Days
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Open Days
The University of Wolverhampton regularly host Open Days, and Physics is always (and increasingly) represented there.
The Open Day is a great opportunity to pass the doors and see what the University of Wolverhampton is like inside and what a great breadth of topics are represented there. For people interested in hard sciences, besides interacting with us Physicists, you can also meet Mathematicians, Computer Scientists and Engineers (Chemical, Aerospace or Motorsport, among others). It's always great fun to have a tour and see what other disciplines are up to as well, including Forensic Sciences, Animal behaviours, Architecture or Psychology. If you can get to see the other campuses as well, there's chance to see Dance, Drama and theatre or Performing arts among a myriad of other expressions of the human intellect. The University is a welcoming place for the brain, and it is always a good place to visit.
Past Days
17 February 2018
The University of Wolverhampton hosted an Open Day on Saturday, February 17 2018, from 10am-4pm. The theme for Physics was Polarization of light. We gave a talk (2 sessions) on the phenomenon and illustrated it with polarizers, alternating between applications (visualisation of stress) and strange phenomena to be explained by the force of theory (addition of vector fields).
18 November 2017
The University of Wolverhampton hosted an Open Day in November, on the 18th (a Saturday), from 10am-4pm. The theme for Physics on this occasion was colours! We gave a talk (2 sessions) on what colours are and hosted a demonstration of colour mixing, colour transmission and colour absorption.
7 October 2017
The University of Wolverhampton hosted an Open Day in October, on the 7th (a Saturday), from 9am-3pm. This coincided with the World Space Week, which we celebrated with two talks on space conquest (how to go into space) and the Physics of stars. A demonstration was made in the courtyard of propelling a water-bottle rocket, illustrating the principle of angular momentum conservation and how to take advantage of it.
19 August 2017
The University of Wolverhampton hosted an Open Day in August, on the 19th (a Wednesday), from 9am-3pm, featuring all the branches of the University, but also, importantly, Physics. We gave two talks, discussing what Physics is about, with a demonstration of the conservation of angular momentum:
In the evening, the Wolves were playing, so football enthusiasts could finish off the day nicely in the stadium or at any of our local pubs.
17 June 2017
The University of Wolverhampton hosted an Open Day on Saturday, 17 June 2017. Physics was represented there for the first time. We were in the Harrison Learning Centre and it was great to breathe all that enthusiasm from many young people, including very young ones.