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Guelph Physics' Science-Communication Course Articles
Undergraduate students enrolled in any of the physics majors at the University of Guelph are required to complete a science communication course, typically in their third year. One of the writing assignments requires the students to craft a short popular science article suitable for the general public. Check out some of the cool science our students have highlighted!
- Will your Rollercoaster get Stuck at the Top of a Loop-the-Loop? (Michaela Hishon and Joseph Owen - 3 April 2024)
- Reference Frames and Shooting Flames (Colton Bourque - 7 February, 2024)
- Turning Right to Go Left (Christopher Faeth - February 21, 2023)
- Falling with Class(ics) (Celeste Wolske - January 30, 2023)
- Forces of nature: biking with the wind (Amelia Frisbee - December 13, 2022)
- A modern-day catapult with an astronomical application (Noah Franklin - January 4, 2023)
Student articles from previous years are collected here. (Note that the links below will take you to an external website.)
- Could RoboBees be the solution to the declining bee population? (Sarah Rousselle - June 4, 2017)
- 'Slow as molasses' is not even close to an apt description for this experiment (Liam Graham - June 11, 2017)
- Drop Me A Line - the incredible properties of spider silk (Yiorgio Mathiodakis - October 21, 2017)
- Canadian nanotechnology helping to improve Canada's game (Joseph Cirone - December 3, 2017)
- Tardigrades: the most indesctructible animal on Earth (Josephine Tan - January 20, 2018)
- Biomimicry - design inspired by nature (Vicky Lin - February 19, 2018)
- Platypus milk: saving lives one drop at a time (Paul Foley - June 14, 2018)
- Peregrine falcons are a marvel of engineering (Corey Knight - September 28, 2018)
- How a Canadian team found the long-lost ships of the Franklin expedition (Adam Boucher, April 3, 2019)