TECHNOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Catalog description

The applied physics and technology involved in everyday life in order to gain an understanding of basic science and engineering principles; Newton's laws of motion as they apply to an ice skater and bumper cars; principles of fluid mechanics like water flowing from a garden hose and the buoyancy of ships; heat transfer and phase transitions like water in its three phases and home heating systems; thermodynamic efficiency of automobile engines as well as air conditioners; resonance and mechanical waves developed by music instruments; basic electricity and its many applications from how it is produced by water and wind to how it is used to produce light; light and optics, for example, splitting the colors of sunlight to focusing light in a camera lens. Offered occasionally.