First Year Seminar 191CNS52 - FYS- Physics in the Kitchen

What can the foods we eat tell us about physics? We all have physics intuition from our daily lives, beyond just how things move. One place in our homes that is full of physics is actually our kitchen. Physics is more than just particle physics or astrophysics, and one particular less well-known - but very active! - field is soft matter physics. Soft matter physics covers many of the things in our kitchens - from the foods we eat to our cleaning supplies - and these are all things that we have intuition for. In this class, we will investigate the kitchen using soft matter physics and learn how to ask scientific questions about the phenomena we experience every day.

First year (Fr or Soph)