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Facilities and Equipment

The Physics Department has teaching classrooms/laboratories, research spaces, and faculty and staff offices on the third floor of the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences. 

Physics students at ³Ô¹ÏÍø gain hands-on experience in the Machine Shop and the IdeaLab makerspace through activities and projects that are built into the physics curriculum. Previous projects that physics students have worked on using the ³Ô¹ÏÍø Machine Shop and/or IdeaLab makerspace include:

  • subwoofer and tweeter
  • drone
  • wind tunnel
  • self-balancing robot
  • musical instruments (banjo, ukelele, kalimba)
  • acoustic levitator to study atmospheric water droplets
  • miniature carved boat
  • public address loudspeaker
  • model cars
  • Turner's cube
  • radio telescope
  • ultrasonic levitator
  • robotic arm
  • quadruped robot
  • egg-painting robot
  • spinning tops
  • dice
  • da Vinci catapult
  • desk organizer
  • jewelry box
  • skateboard
³Ô¹ÏÍø physics student smiles while working with a transparent celestial globe marked with constellations and stars.
Two students work to build a prototype in ³Ô¹ÏÍø's IdeaLab
Three students work on maze in a physics lab
Students work at various tables in a ³Ô¹ÏÍø physics lab
Two students look at an image of the moon on a computer screen
Student sits at a desk staring at a chalkboard with physics equations on a chalkboard