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The Physics Circus Travels To Cyberspace, a Detour Brought on by COVID-19

Undaunted by COVID, Physics Circus Beefs up Interactive Learning Experience for Kids

Undaunted by COVID, Physics Circus beefs up its interactive learning experience for school-aged children

Photo Credit: Courtesy image When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, teachers everywhere found themselves dealing with the challenge of reaching students in spite of the lockdowns and social distancing rules that abruptly split classrooms apart. Such was the case for the volunteers behind UC Santa Barbara’s Physics Circus, an interactive science outreach program offered to school-aged children by the university’s Department of Physics. Typically offered on site at local elementary schools as an assembly demonstration show or as part of an after school family science night, Physics Circus and its cadre of hardworking and enthusiastic students were suddenly cut off from their audience, stifled in their ability to bring physics to the kids.

Physics - Common Ground in Avalanche-Like Events

Common Ground in Avalanche-Like Events January 14, 2021• Physics 14, 6 Physicists have spent decades uncovering similarities in how disordered materials deform. Now they are trying to apply these results to the design of new materials. nakimori/adobe.stock.com Similar scaling patterns are seen in the sizes of avalanches on a snow-covered mountain and in the loudness of crackling sounds in deforming metals. nakimori/adobe.stock.com Similar scaling patterns are seen in the sizes of avalanches on a snow-covered mountain and in the loudness of crackling sounds in deforming metals.× Karin Dahmen loves noise. A theoretical physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she has spent most of her career studying the “crackling noise” emitted by different materials when they deform. The noise emitted when a piece of paper is crumpled, for example, is a series of discrete snaps that vary in loudness. If you were to plot the number of snaps for each loudnes