Lévitation quantique

On November 1, 2, and 3, 2019, the “DIY Physics Lab” workshop was held at the FabLab in Moscow. For three days, Russian physics teachers discovered and tested for themselves the use of smartphones or Arduino boards to do physics, so that they can reuse these skills in their teachings.

The makers of the FabLab Moscow participated and provided valuable assistance in the realization of the final projects that the participants had to design and carry out: real-time analysis of the efficiency of a filter by colorimetry, demonstration of an acoustic resonance, design of a pendulum-smartphone students’ lab, study of the acoustic attenuation of materials, motorized pendulum… These three days were rich in activities as can be attested by the site of the event:

Part of the pedagogical supports that the “Physics ReImagined” team developed were translated into Russian for this workshop. These documents can be found here, and are free to use under the CC-BY-NC-ND license.

This project is a production of “Physics Reimagined” from Paris-Saclay University and CNRS, and by Anna Khazina. It benefited from the support of the IDEX Paris-Saclay, of the “Physique Autrement” Chair, held by the Paris-Sud Foundation and supported by the Air Liquide Group. This event was co-organised together with FabLab MISiS in Moscow.

Many thanks to all the participants of this workshop, to all the people of the FabLab MISiS for helping during the event.

In this project, students used a software to simulate fake scientific curves and lab images on a real oscilloscope. They were then used at a scientific conference.

The students set up a tracking system to capture gestures during the conference and to make animations and drawings that serve to remember key moments.

The students created a wooden box with an interactive device that launches controlled animations via a tracking and a webcam. This allows to trigger interactive animations, trackings of drawings, all live, during a scientific conference.

The students wanted to offer video breaths during a conference, each one in its style closing a part of the conference.

We have proposed to digital design students to find ways to enrich a classic scientific conference. In a week, they had to invent four devices to shift, increase, make accessible or even aesthetic a conference on quantum physics. Challenge raised with 4 original projects tested on the same conference a week later at Théatre Le Mouffetard in front of a packed hall.

Discover here the video of this beautiful moment, and the four projects.

In 2016, the Nobel Prize was awarded for “topological phases in matter”. The subject is very difficult to explain, so we tried to make it an animated film! Welcome to a strange world full of quantum physics, electricity, magnetism and even oceanography. This short film also offers another look at science, showing how a simple little curious experience eventually generates a whole field of research. Here you can also download two posters from the same graphic world that tell the topology and how science is done.  You’ll also find lots of pretty pictures on these topics to reuse in your own lessons or conferences. And as a bonus, a short making-of.

In 2016, the Nobel Prize was awarded for « topological phases in matter ». This subject is very difficult to explain, so we tried to make it an animated film! Welcome to a strange world full of quantum physics, electricity, magnetism and even oceanography. This short film also offers another look at science, to show showing how a simple little curious experience will eventually generates a whole field of research. Here you can also download here two posters from the same graphic world that tell the topology and how science is done. You’ll also find lots of pretty pictures on these topics to reuse in your own lessons or conferences. And as a bonus, a short making-of.