The Shippensburg University Physics Club was established to give SU students an opportunity to meet with fellow students interested in the field of physics. Students from all majors are welcome to join.
The Shippensburg University Physics Club was established to give SU students
an opportunity to meet with fellow students interested in the field of physics.
Students from all majors are welcome to join.
Physics Club members actively choose and organize events. In the past, members have taken field trip to goverment and University Labs involved in Physics.
You should consider joining Physics Club: You will have opportunities to meet your peers and further your knowledge in the field physics. The faculty advisor for Physics Club is Dr. Alan Cresswell.
Sigma Pi Sigma is the National Honor Society in Physics founded in 1921 for the purpose of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining scholarship in and advancing the science of physics. Our Sigma Pi Sigma works in close conjunction with the Physics Club.
We hold these postulates to be intuitively obvious, that all physicists are
born equal, to a first approximation, and are endowed by their creator
with certain discrete privileges, among them a mean rest life, n degrees
of freedom,
and the following rights which are invariant under all linear transformations:
1. To approximate all problems to ideal cases.
2. To use order of magnitude calculations whenever deemed necessary (i.e., whenever one can get away with it).
3. To use the rigorous method of "squinting" for solving problems more complex than the addition of positive real integers.
4. To dismiss all functions which diverge as "nasty" and "unphysical."
5. To invoke the uncertainty principle when confronted by confused mathematicians, chemists, engineers, psychologists, dramatists, and other lower scientists.
6. When pressed by non-physicists for an explanation of (4) to mumble in a sneering tone of voice something about physically naive mathematicians.
7. To equate two sides of an equation which are dimensionally inconsistent, with a suitable comment to the effect of, "Well, we are interested in the order of magnitude anyway."
8. To the extensive use of fictitious notations where conventional mathematics will not work.
9. To invent fictitious forces to delude the general public.
10. To justify shaky reasoning on the basis that it gives the right answer.
11. To cleverly choose convenient initial conditions, using the principle of general triviality.
12. To use plausible arguments in place of proofs, and thenceforth refer to these arguments as proofs.
13. To take on faith any principle which seems right but cannot be proved.
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