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Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Gravitational Wave AstronomyUniversity of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

80 Fort Brown ● Brownsville Texas 78520

WHAT IS PHYSICS?

PHYSICS IS THE STUDY OF…

SPACE

TIME

MATTER

ENERGY

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PHYSICS: •Trying to find the basic rules of the universe •Trying to answer to the question: WHY?

•Playing or watching games is more fun when you know the rules•Soccer has rules, Halo has rules•Physicists try to understand the basic rules of the universe

Understanding the rules leads to new technologies, like…LASERS

Laser video

MRI

GPS

GPS video

WHAT DO PHYSICISTS DO?

RESEARCH

MAKE LASER COMPONENTS

LOOK INSIDECELLS

LOOK OUT INTO SPACE

AND..

…TRAVEL!

WITH A DEGREE IN PHYSICS YOU COULD BECOME A…

TEACHER PHYSICIAN

WALL STREET ANALYST ($$$) PHYSICIST

AT THE UTB/TSC DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

WE STUDY• BIOPHYSICS• NANOSCIENCE• LASERS AND OPTICS• THEORIES OF GRAVITY• PULSAR ASTRONOMY• ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS• MATERIAL SCIENCEAND…

…YOU COULD LOOK FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

WHAT ARE THEY?

•Signals from space•They are different than any other signals we receive.

WHAT ARE THEY?

•Signals from space•They are different than any other signals we receive.

HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM OTHER WAVES?

LIGHT WAVES

HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM OTHER WAVES?

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE HAS

PASSED??

HOW DO YOU SEE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES?LIGO, Hanford , WA LIGO, Livingston, LA

North American NanohertzObservatory

WHAT DOES THE UNIVERSE LOOK LIKE?

TRYING TO SEE THE “UNSEEN” UNIVERSE

WHATEVER YOU PLANS, BE SURE TO STUDY

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