Science Unfally is a popular awareness program developed 16 years ago by the Utah State University College of Science. It consists of monthly rallies during the school year which have a scientific conference followed by practical learning activities and refreshments.
There is even further for another pleasure of the USU crowd in the same vein, is the day of physics in Lagoon which will be 36 years old this year.
Farrell Edwards, who preceded these events, preceded these events, which joined the USU physics faculty in 1959 and taught for 58 years. Farrell’s son Boyd, a current member of the faculty of physics, remembers when his father put on a brilliant orange cape and, as a superhero, would facilitate the fear of the physics of the undergraduate students with humor, diverting puffs and catchy demos.
Last year, Bob and his brother John, a member of the computer faculty in computer science, were invited to present a joint conference for the Science series Unfais 2024 “Building on Basics”. They created an interior wooden carousel, with a human -based base to demonstrate the rotation forces.
It turned out to be a demo of demos, describing what is called the Coriolis effect and their “Coriolis Carrousel” has attracted more than 10 million views so far on Youtube.
The Coriolis effect is a force caused by the rotation of the earth which diverts moving objects (like air and ocean currents) to the right in the northern and left hemisphere in the southern hemisphere.
Clark Planetarium by Salt Lake City features the carousel as part of “Clark After Dark” a monthly evening program for 18 and over. The Edwards family donated the planetarium rotation platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFWDZHAHA
This video shows how the strength of Coriolis can be seen and felt on a rotary platform, called the Coriolis carousel of the Utah State University. As the runners of this carousel show, the bullets that have passed between them and the dumbbells they push forward are diverted laterally. To discover these forces, mount the USU Coriolis carousel during a scientific event unpacked on January 19, 2024 in Logan, Utah (https://www.usu.edu/science/unwrapy/). To find out more, see the Coriolis carousel playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?