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Thousands of traveling shows have been presented to 100,000+ students in Wisconsin and 36 other states The Wonders of Physics shows make a great science assembly program for school groups of all grade levels Visit our website for more info:

Hands-on activities and lab tours Meet scientists and students Free and open to the public. No tickets required.

Donations help us continue to present The Wonders of Physics year after year! Donation bins are located outside of the lecture room Donate online! Visit wonders.physics.wisc.edu and click the Donate tab

Professor Clint Sprott’s book is a great resource for any science teacher It contains detailed descriptions of 85 physics demonstrations used in The Wonders of Physics It is accompanied by two DVDs showing all 85 demonstrations presented to a live audience It is available on amazon.com for $42

Since 1984, Professor Sprott has presented The Wonders of Physics He became a Professor of Physics at UW-Madison in 1973 His research is in plasma physics and chaos

Order any of the past 31 years of shows on DVD, or order the whole set! Click the Gallery tab on our website to watch all of the past shows online DVDs are available at the Wonders of Physics information table

Plasma is created when five giant capacitor banks dump 20 million watts of power in 1/10 th of a second! That’s enough juice to light up a small town (very briefly). Every time the MST fires, it makes a loud 'WOMP', scaring the heck out of unsuspecting students as they walk by! The Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) produces hot plasma for research in plasma physics and fusion power generation, the energy source of the sun. The MST is located right here in Chamberlin Hall. Visit for more information.

The first Wonders of Physics shows were in 1984 The shows were inspired by UW Chemistry Professor Bassam Shakhashiri’s “Once Upon a Christmas Cheery” lectures Through 2014, Professor Sprott and friends have presented 267 shows to 93,880 people!

The hollow aluminum sphere, built by four Wisconsin companies, weighs 11,000 pounds. It was built to heat gases to 500,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It will help researchers understand why the sun occasionally spews out particles that affect the Earth, knocking out satellites and even taking down power grids! A new UW-Madison research project to simulate the superheated gases that form the sun's magnetic field. The sphere now occupies a new two-story lab in Sterling Hall. Visit for more information.

Visit the Wonders of Physics information table and purchase a T-shirt for $12! Visit the Ingersoll Physics Museum

A unique telescope at the South Pole! Most telescopes look at light; IceCube looks for mysterious particles called neutrinos. Visit for more information. Neutrinos come from the sun, cosmic rays, and exploding stars! Over 5,000 basketball- sized detectors were placed deep in the Antarctic ice. The detectors look for flashes of blue light given off when neutrinos hits atoms. The direction and intensity of the light can tell us where the neutrino came from in the Universe. IceCube is the world's largest neutrino detector, encompassing a cubic kilometer of ice! Many of the detectors were built and tested at UW-Madison.

March , 2015 UW-Madison campus Fun, family-friendly event for kids and adults of all ages FREE! Saturday only: Performances of “The Physics of Plasma”, Chamberlin Hall Visit science.wisc.edu for schedule and more.

The Wonders of Physics program is made possible by grants from the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences of the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation…

However, this funding is ending.

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