{"id":583,"date":"2018-02-01T23:29:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T23:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/?p=583"},"modified":"2018-02-01T23:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T23:32:45","slug":"physics-outreach-volunteers-visit-franklin-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2018\/02\/01\/physics-outreach-volunteers-visit-franklin-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Outreach Volunteers Visit Franklin School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate volunteers from the Department of Physics took some of their favorite kid-friendly demonstrations to share with families at the annual Family Science Night at Franklin School, Corvallis, on January 25th. The demonstrations included exploding balloons in a vacuum chamber, the dielectric breakdown of air, target practice with a vortex cannon, rainbow effects with diffraction glasses and the department&#8217;s home made hover craft.\u00a0 Many thanks to volunteers, Zack Colbert, Lincoln Worley, Mirek Brandt, Garrett Jepson, Hanna Hansen, and Mattia Carbonaro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3553.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-584\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3553.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3553.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3553-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3553-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3553-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3574.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3574.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3574-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3574-768x632.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3574-1024x842.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3566.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-586\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3566.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3566-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3566-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3566-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3561.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-587\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3561.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3561-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3561-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_3561-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate volunteers from the Department of Physics took some of their favorite kid-friendly demonstrations to share with families at the annual Family Science Night at Franklin School, Corvallis, on January 25th. The demonstrations included exploding balloons in a vacuum chamber, the dielectric breakdown of air, target practice with a vortex cannon, rainbow effects with diffraction&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2018\/02\/01\/physics-outreach-volunteers-visit-franklin-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[482,911,186942],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outreach","category-students","category-undergraduates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}