Every spring, the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Aerospace Engineering host a Physics and Engineering Festival. The festival invites people of all ages to participate in fun experiments, listen to talks from our world-famous professors, and learn something new!
To learn more about the Physics Festival, please visit the website.
Below, click to view posters created by the Astronomy group that explain some of the experiments we helped put on. Enjoy!

• Disappearing Glass Fish
• Guess Your Weight Around the Universe!
• How Objects React in a Vacuum
• Impact Cratering
• Let’s Make a Comet
• Solar System Scavenger Hunt
• What Do You See in the Infrared?

Past demos

• Pyrex Fishing
• Spectroscopy of Emission Line Tubes
• Solar Observing
• How to Make a Solar Pinhole Camera
• Toast and the Speed of Light
• Measure the Size of the Earth
• Stellar Nurseries - How Stars Form
• Herschel Experiment and Infrared Light