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Physics for everyone project at ELTE

2015_Budap_P4E03The main goal of the project was to raise public awareness to the everyday influence of physics in our life. Physics themed presentations were held in the whole country organised by the Hungarian EPS member ELFT, and we took our part in the project by organising the main flagship event at the Eötvös University. This was an open and free event for any curious persons, but our main focus was on families, teenagers and younger children. There were four 30 minute long easily understandable and entertaining scientific lectures. The lectures were presented by renewed scientists and students alike, with topics from the most novel and interesting research areas. During the whole afternoon and evening (for seven hours) there were five thematic demonstration stands with over a 100 different experiments (the five themes were: thermodynamics, electromagnetism, modern physics, mechanics and a darkroom for optical experiments). The participants were also able to try out most of the non­dangerous experiments themselves. There were at least four presenters at each table, who were mostly physics students, and there will were additional organisers who have taken small sized groups to the digital planetary at the campus.There were also interesting astronomical lectures every hour in the afternoon, and there was also an hourly rocket and explosion experiment in the open. We and the ELFT aim to grow this national event to an international celebration for physics in the following years.

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