The Physics Circus is a program to promote science education in local K-12 schools. A group of enthusiastic UCSB Physics Department graduate students, undergraduate students, and faculty take a collection of demonstration experiments on the road to nearby schools and present an action-packed learning experience.

In today's schools there is a growing need to supplement and improve existing programs in the physical sciences.  The goal of the physics circus team is to introduce and discuss a collection of fundamental concepts in physics using accessible language, familiar experiences, demonstration experiments, and audience participation. We learn a little more each time from the wonderful questions that are asked! Followup tours at the Community Science Center at UCSB are available.

The Physics Circus is named after Jearl Walker's book The Flying Circus of Physics.  In this book the author takes everyday phenomena and sets them up as physics problems, just for fun. These problems convey the enjoyment that physics knowledge brings to everyone who tries to understand the world.

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If you have any questions or would like to schedule a show, please contact one of the following:

Program Coordinator: Anne Wrigley

Faculty Sponsor: Deborah Fygenson
Last updated January 10, 2007