Discoveries in the Physics & Astronomy shop | Science, curiosities, and surprises
Aside from the general vibe of “this is dangerous!,” this seems an odd sign.
Five-thousand volts, but use the minimum. Stick to a less dangerous danger?
Burn only when necessary? Presumably “necessary” gets defined elsewhere?
And, ooh, that blue mercury vapor. You’d think a UV warning could be number 4 on there, given its still-useful ability to sterilize hard-to-reach places. For your eyes’ sake, don’t look too long.
New sight on campus this semester: hammocks! Multiple locations, with very sturdy, powder-coated steel posts, studded with little orange bison heads. Six massive posts. Three little hammocks.
Some days, you just shrug and keep on walking.
The connector’s ground floor got new flooring and paint over the summer. Just recently, new signage, too.
The first C in “Science” looks funny because there’s a little orange bison dawdling there. Look up next time you walk by.
Even during construction, it’s important to have signage for wayfinding.
When in need of labeling that won’t come off for anything, stamp it directly into the material surface. No permanent marker; no paint; no adhesive sticker. We have the letters of the alphabet (not pictured) and the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0.
Six being nine and all. That and five makes a decent-enough ess in a pinch.
Spotted on a nearby office door. Summer is the season for construction around here, for fenced-off parking lots, for the interminable beeping of construction vehicles in reverse, for doors and paths suddenly in need of detours.
But the seasons change, as they ever do, and here we are in autumn, barreling toward winter, whose cold and wind leave us dreaming of construction season once more…
‘Tis the season for toy kits once more, an entertaining feature of the introductory Physics sequence. Among all of the miscellaneous goodies intended to illustrate Newtonian mechanics through ordinary things, few catch one’s attention like suction-cup blow darts.
Hundreds of plastic tubes and their counterpart foam blow darts.
An unexpected find in the library while searching on an alternate topic. Welcome back, students!
With the impending start of classes, it’s time to get ready. Packing hundreds of toy kits, a collection of odds and ends to show how ordinary things can illustrate scientific principles. Maybe it’s just an excuse to remind everyone how entertaining a yo-yo can be?
“Physics Shop needs to be taken to + fixed. Chem 107”
Clearly written in haste, an encouragement for someone else to take this inoperable hot plate down to the shop for repair. But, look, it got here. If it’s fixable, we’ll fix it. So, good enough?