About questions.

[Q3JR4]

Too all of you science peoples in the room, I'm trying to re-write a webpage for a physics department in the United States. The section they currently have titled "Why major in physics," frankly, sucks.

I'm playing with ideas and one of those is to--throughout the new page--drop questions related to a few fields one can go into with a physics degree.

Fields like:
1. optics
"What makes a rainbow?"

2. Medicine "
How do MRI's work?"
"What's XMRI?"

3. biology ....

4. chemistry ....

5. Astronomy
"How hot is the sun?"

6. Engineering
"How can I design a a device that will hold super hot gases?"

7. financial market
"What is the Monte Carlo method useful for?"

8. Motion "If I drop a penny from the Empire State building, will it make a dent in the concrete?"
"If I spit from the top of the Empire State Building on a cold day will it freeze before it hits the ground?"

9. Gravity
"Why does Earth have an atmosphere while the moon doesn't?

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I want to make it as interesting and enlightening as possible. Maybe it'll spark someone's interest and give them a better understanding of the nature of "Physics".

Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks!

[mike_c]

1. not sure I have any useful ideas, but some that come to mind...

...for biology include biomechanics, sports and space medicine, ecological and epidemiological modeling, and bioinformatics. You might want to do google searches on those topics and see if anything looks useful.

[NorCalDem]

2. A good one is...

why is the sky blue? And for that matter, why is the atmosphere of Mars red?

[Q3JR4]

3. Oooh, I didn't think about mars.

That's a very good one.