Students Have Fun in SPS
Tim Graves

The past year has been an exciting one for the SSU chapter of the Society of Physics Students. The club has gone through some changes during the past few months, and things are really starting to happen.

Just recently the chapter attended Physics Day at Paramount’s Great America along with fellow physics students from Stanford and San José State Universities. Club members spent the day educating high school students on the kinematics and Newtonian dynamics involved in some of the rides.

To help promote our primary goal of educating others as well as ourselves, the SPS has also spent a great deal of time advertising the Physics Study Center in Darwin 343 to all students taking physics classes.

Dr. Rahimi graced the SPS with his presence, discussing what our role as “modern physicists” will be in the late 20th and early 21st century. He mentioned possible internships as well as potential job opportunities after graduation.

For an end-of-semester event the club will be visiting the Stanford Linear Accelerator and the Gravity Probe B spacecraft at Stanford. Special thanks should go to Dr. Lynn Cominsky who has arranged the whole event. To top it off, she has invited the SPS to a dinner at her home afterward. It has been a wonderful year for the SPS, and we plan for things to keep getting better.

Tim Graves is the president of SPS at Sonoma State.