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  • Last Thursday the Physics Club at the University of Windsor held a Pictionary tournament!  The event was a great success with 11 teams competing for the title (and enjoying pizza!).  Congratulations Dan and Anthony who took first place!

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  • Ultimate Pi Day!

    Today in North America, we celebrate the Pi day of the century! Nerds across the continent waited patiently for that time in the morning when the date was exactly 03/14/15 9:26:53, coinciding with the first ten digits of Pi.

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  • Science Hero: Max Planck

    Max Planck was a German physicist who is credited with finding the relationship between the energy and the frequency of electromagnetic radiation. His equation sparked the quantum revolution that took place at the beginning of the 20th century. The famous equation, where E is the energy…

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  • Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist who is known for his contribution to quantum mechanics. The quantum revolution began in the early 20th century, with contributions from physics giants like Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, Neils Bohr, Louis de Broglie and Wolfgang Pauli.

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  • A physics blog would be incomplete without a profile on one of the most respected scientists of all time. Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany in 1879. He took lessons in violin and piano as a child and often expressed his passion for music.

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  • An excellent exercise to practice stoichiometry and unit analysis in chemistry!

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