The Fascination of Microdimension - Tiny Physics

26.05.2004 - 11.07.2004
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TINYPHYSICS aims at supporting communication between science and society. The proposed project is to make a substantial contribution to the public¿s understanding of physics and its benefit for everybody. The project¿s aim is not to cite dry physical laws but to show what physical effects are behind everyday phenomena. It is intended to demonstrate the great mutual importance of increasing miniaturization and the physical laws behind. The significance of this approach is the result of a miniaturization process of components and systems which is far from complete and which demands a more profound understanding of the underlying physical effects. This project reveals these interrelationships in the form of a comprehensive stock-taking of scaling in physics, which will lead to an exhibition integrated into European Science Week 2005. A contest among high school students will generate interest and fascination for physics in the large and in the small scale. The best results of the contest will be integrated into the exhibition. Thus the students will be motivated to delve into physics in the micro and in the macro dimensions. A multidisciplinary team will prepare an interactive exhibition which will take place for the first time in Vienna during the European Science Week 2005. The TINYPHYSICS project is also intended to interlink national and European activities in field of Science and Society and the integration of women in science. Maximised added-value and multiplication of mobilised funds results from following integration of the exhibition into the FP6 MC RTN ASSEMIC (until 2008 the exhibition will be shown in 10 European Countries).

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  • Bundesministerium für Bildung Wissenschaft und Kultur

Keywords

GermanEnglish
MikrotechnikMicrotechnology
Physikalische EffektePhysical Effects
European Science Week 2005European Science Week 2005

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