Inside This Issue:

Lasers, SPS, and One of Country Music's Biggest Stars

An Unusual Journey

Spotlight on SPS Outreach: 20,000 Bouncy Balls

Echoes from 2008

Elegant Connections in Physics: The Discovery of The Nucleus, Part 2

SPS at Meetings

Help People Tune in to Science

 

About the Cover
In a unique science experience, Utah State University's Society of Physics Students chapter dropped 20,000 bouncy balls from a helicopter. See the story on page 8 for details.
Photo by Charles Sims

Editor
Dwight E. Neuenschwander Southern Nazarene University

Assistant Editor
Kendra Redmond

Editorial Assistant
Tracy Schwab

Production & Print
Karol Keane

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SPS President
Toni Sauncy
Angelo State University

SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma Director
Gary D. White

SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma Assistant Director
Thomas Olsen

SPS is an organization of the American Institute of Physics

SPS American Institute of Physics

AIP Member Societies:
American Physical Society
Optical Society of America
Acoustical Society of America
The Society of Rheology
American Association of
      Physics Teachers
American Crystallographic
      Association
American Astronomical
      Society
American Association of
      Physicists in Medicine
AVS, The Science and
      Technology Society
American Geophysical Union

Other Member Organizations:
Sigma Pi Sigma
Society of Physics Students
Corporate Associates

Twenty Thousand Bouncy Balls

Spotlight on SPS Outreach: 20,000 Bouncy Balls
by Nancy Van Valkenburg

This article originally appeared in the Standard-Examiner (Logan, Utah) on March 18, 2011. Reprinted with permission.

Jameson Ames had a good reason for checking out Utah State University’s helicopter drop of 20,000 bouncy balls. “I want to be a scientist,” the Wellsville 12-year-old said as he strained against the yellow police tape strung around a USU parking lot, the helicopter’s drop target. “I love science, but also, a 20,000-bouncyballs drop is awesome, just awesome,” Jameson said.
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