3. Top 5 Reasons to
Study Physics
5) Physics is way cooler than
Biology, Chemistry, etc.
“in Science, there iS only
Physics; all the rest is
Stamp collecting”
~Rutherford

4. 4) You will know why the sky
iS blue…

5. 3) Big long words like
Electromagnetostatics…

6. 2) Understand how
Schrödinger's cat is both
dead and
alive…SimultaneouSly.

7. 1) There is a whole lot of math
and…
we do some things that you math
teachers told you never to
do, we just never tell them!

8. 1+i) (after all, physics is
complex!)
Being a nerd is cool

9. What do these people
have in common?
• Member of the TOMAHAWK Advanced
Concepts Team at the Naval Surface
Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
• Baltimore County Police Department
and member of the department's
crash team investigation group
• Software Engineer
• Working for the National
Reconnaissance Agency
• Defense contractor for Northrop-
Grumman
• Marketing Manager for Virginia
Abrasives Corporation

10. • Consultant to the Office of Naval
Research 351, Asymmetric Defense
Project
• Worked with US National and
International Weapons communities
evaluating technology
• 1993-1998 served as President
clinton’S aSSiStant for Science and
Technology and director of the
White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy
• Team member of Project Mercury
and Project Viking for NASA – first

12. WHY Physics @ RMC?
TOP 5 REASONS!

13. #5) You Get GREAT
profeSSorS…
DR. FRANZ!!!!!
DR. SPAGNA!!!!
DR. WOOLARD!!!!

14. …& the rmc phySicS
family…
John
James
Edwin
Christian Randy
Andrew
Andrea
Jen

15. #4) Small Classes = All about YOU!
• The courageous students who major in
physics come few and far between~ so you
always know who will be in your classes!
•Physics Professors
will know you by
name, face, and
number of hours
spent hanging out in
their offices
enjoying physics!

16. #3) CRAZY LABS!

17. #2) Learn everything you
need!
-Physics classes teach you TONS of Other things-
Physics classes can carry over into other
majors or minors, such as math, computer
science, chemistry, environmental
studies, biology, and philosophy! It also gives
you a lot of research opportunity.

18. #1) Society of Physics Students!
(office)
• Your home away from home!
• EVERYTHING you need to
EAT, SLEEP, and Do PHYSICS!
• Office Includes- cable TV, DVD
player, refrigerator, microwave, lots
of computers, couches, tables, and all
the physics books you could ever
want! (and for a limited time only, a full collection of
Schaum’s)

19. THIS COULD BE YOU!
I LOVE PHYSICS!