Concordia Physics Student Association (CPSA)

11/10/2015

What's worse?

1) midterms + assignments?
2) finals?
3) going to school with no pants?
4) quantum mechanics?

03/24/2015

When your answer for the particle's velocity finally comes out to be less than the speed of light...

03/05/2015

Henry Moseley was a physicist before the first world war, and he died in battle on August 10th,1915. In his will he left 2200 pounds (a huge sum, for the time...) to the Royal Society and wrote:

"to be applied to the fur­therance of experimental research in Pathology Physics Physiology Chem­istry or other branches of science but not in pure mathematics astronomy or any branch of science which aims merely at describing cataloguing or systematizing."

Shots fired ? Rest in peace, and thank you.

02/25/2015

Some things you may or may not have known about Rutherford, from "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes (an excellent book!!):

01/26/2015

The punny replies are great too http://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2tm2ub/heisenberg_schrodinger_and_ohm_are_in_a_car/

They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No, but I know exactly where I am"...

01/16/2015

PHYSICISTS. UNITE. Tonight the physics games of Quebec kick off, hosted by the McGill university! We will be pub crawling tonight with physics students from all over Quebec. You should text 438 824 3873 to find out where we're at, any any given time (responses may or may not be singular, that's right, tonight we may or may not be "well-behaved")

01/08/2015

We have taken new stomping grounds people ! Check out the new undergrad study room on the 3rd floor of sp :

12/13/2014

For those having a hard time visualizing their Poisson/Laplace and Helmholtz boundary value problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs&feature=youtu.be

http://NigelStanford.com/Solar_Echoes From the album 'Solar Echoes'. http://NigelStanford.com/Cymatics Download in 4k / HD. All of the science experiments in...

12/12/2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHy08ZPav88

“All About That Space” is a volunteer outreach video project created by the Pathways Interns of NASA's Johnson Space Center. It was created as a parody (to r...

11/21/2014

The conservation of angular momentum:
http://i.imgur.com/URG8Geq.gif

11/05/2014

Public lecture tomorrow at 6pm by David Wineland, Nobel laureate for his work in quantum optics.

http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/outreach/mcpherson.html