Young physicists attend course
By
TOM METCALFE
More than 100 young physicists from throughout the countiy are in Christchurch this week to take part in the first Winter School in physics run by the University of Canterbury. The Winter School was aimed to introduce sixth and seventh-form high school pupils to research “at the forefront of physics,” said a spokesman for the school, Dr Archie Ross.
“We want to give them a feel for some of the new ideas in physics that they wouldn’t get just following the school syllabus,” he said.
The topics considered were generally well beyond the level of bursary and scholarship physics. Over the week-long course, the pupils were taking lectures and doing experiments in gravity, electro-magnetics, and “strong” and “weak” nuclear forces.
The programme includes field trips to the National Radiation Laboratory and the university physics department’s upper-atmosphere research station at Birdlings Flat.
One-hundred and twenty pupils are attending the course, selected from about 180 applicants.
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