A basketball cannon and a skateboarding physicist are two of the highlights of the CU Wizards show "The Physics of Sports" to be presented on Saturday, June 19, on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus.
Physics professors Deborah Jin and John Bohn will present their show at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30. It is free and open to the public.
CU Wizards is an annual series during the school year that introduces topics in astronomy, chemistry and physics and is intended primarily for students in grades five through nine. The June 19 show is the final one of the season.
During the show audience members will find out what they can learn about physics from sports like baseball, gymnastics, diving and ice skating. They also will learn how they can use physics to improve their performance in various sports.
Jin was the winner of a 2003 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the "genius grant." In January 2004, Jin and her research group created a new form of matter called a "fermionic condensate." Physicists hope that further research with such condensates will help unlock the mysteries of high-temperature superconductivity, a phenomenon with the potential to improve energy efficiency dramatically across a broad range of applications.
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