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IOP bus posters at Manchester Science Festival
IOP
8 October 2007
If you are in Manchester during October 2007, then look out for a series of six posters produced by the Institute of Physics. The posters will be displayed on the inside of buses and at bus stops throughout central Manchester and have been launched to coincide with the Manchester Science Festival (20 – 28 Oct).
Each poster contains an amazing physics fact, such as ‘Frogs levitate in a strong enough magnetic field’, and ‘A bolt of lightning has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread’, and you can find out more about the physics behind the facts and how it could have an affect on your life in the future here.
The information behind the facts also highlights research being conducted by physicists today, such as whether there will ever be a real life ‘spiderman’ suit created by mimicking the sticking ability of gecko feet, what technology will be used on space missions to Mars, and even whether we will ever make a human levitate.
Along with launching these posters, the Institute of Physics will be supporting various performances throughout the festival including the interactive show Cartoon Science - where you’ll discover the difference between cartoon science and real science, Stradivarius Secret - a talk with demonstrations to illustrate the physics behind the famous violin, and Physics and Chemistry: More Magic than Harry Potter. To find details of these shows, go to the Manchester Science Festival website.
The Institute of Physics is also supporting an audio walking tour of sites of scientific interest around Manchester. Manchester Science Places guides you around the city as John Dalton, the founder of modern atomic theory may have seen it. The tour can be downloaded from the Science Places website, and even if you don’t have a chance to visit Manchester this autumn, you can read about the places visited, or view the interactive map.
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