Activities of the Croatian Physical Society for the

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Activities of the Croatian Physical Society for
the
International Year of Physics 2005
(coordinator Slobodan Miloevic, Institute of
Physics, Zagreb)  za-wyp2005_at_hfd.hr http//www.
hfd.hr/hr/activ/hrwyp2005.html
Miroslav Poek Physics Department, University of
Zagreb
mpozek_at_phy.hr
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CROATIAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY HRVATSKO FIZIKALNO DR
UTVO
www.hfd.hr
Established 1990 Members 730
(285 scientists 235 teachers 160
students 50 other)
President Goran Pichler (new elections October
21st 2004)
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RELATED SOCIETIES

• Croatian Astronomical Society
• Croatian Biophysical Society (http//www.hbfd.mef.
  hr )
  
• Croatian Meteorological Society
  (http//www.meteohmd.hr)
  
• Croatian Vacuum Society (http//www.cro-vacuum.hr
  )
  
• Croatian Nuclear Society (http//hnd.zvne.fer.hr/u
  o.htm)
  
• Croatian Society for Electron Microscopy
  (http//jagor.srce.hr/csem )
  
• Croatian Radiation Protection Society
  (http//www.hdzz.hr )
  
• Croatian Metrology Society (http//www.hmd.hr)
• Physical Society - Split (http//pubwww.st.carnet.
  hr/fdst )
  
• Society of Mathematicians and Physicists Rijeka
  (http//www.pefri.hr/dmf )
  

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PERMANENT ACTIVITIES

• Competitions in physics for high school
  students (from municipals to the Olympiad)

• Competitions in astronomy

• Biannual symposium about education in physics

• Summer school of astronomy

• Open days of the University and the Institutes

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Main goals in 2005

• Attention of politicians, media and public not
  oriented to physics.

• Attention of pupils to the role of physics in
  everydays life.

• Lectures for humanists, engineers and scientists
  (nonphysicists) about modern developments in
  physics .

• Stronger swing to the permanent activities.

• Stronger support to the physics teachers in
  schools.

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Special activities planned for WYP 2005

• Week of physics (November)
• Performances on public places
• The beauty of physics (travelling lectures of
  scientists in schools and pupils workshops)
  
• Magic bus (travelling experiments project of
  student section)
  
• Interactive experiments for public
• Historical physics experiments
• Exhibition about A. Einstein 1905 year work
  (Technical museum)
  
• Croatian physicists round the World (multimedia
  presentation)
  
• Physics in Croatia (multimedia presentation)
• Regional chain experiments (with Slovenia and
  Austria)

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PERFORMANCES ON PUBLIC PLACES
hmesic_at_phy.hr, suric_at_irb.hr

• Magdeburg hemispheres

• Light beam and dispersion

• Reactive motion

• Monkey hunter

• Electric generator by human force

• Large water lens

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MAGIC BUS THE BEAUTY OF PHYSICS
Students gjeras_at_fizika.hr, mihael_at_mail.inet.hr
Scientists aviani_at_ifs.hr, ana_at_phy.hr Teacher
tprohaska_at_prvagimnazija.hr
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WEEK OF PHYSICS
bogomil.obelic_at_irb.hr, mpozek_at_phy.hr,
movre_at_ifs.hr, herak_at_rudjer.irb.hr

• Multimedia presentations, public lectures

• Laboratory tours, pupils workshops

• Expositions

• Conferences/workshops

• Nobel laureates lectures

• Repetition of selected events through the year

• Videoconferencing with other large cities (Split,
  Rijeka, Osijek)

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INTERACTIVE PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS
placed in the vicinity of science institutes
mpozek_at_phy.hr, veza_at_phy.hr, santic_at_irb.hr,
drobac_at_ifs.hr, mapavic_at_inet.hr

• Model of bora on Velebit

• Turbulences caused by temperature differences

• Newtonean column

• Optical communications

• The third Newtons law

• Foucaults pendulum

• Acoustic resonators

• Modelling and virtual experiments

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HISTORICAL PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS
dandroic_at_phy.hr, furic_at_phy.hr

• Organs from the XIX century

• Helmholtz resonators with Koenigs instrument for
  the analysis

• Tesla transformer with rarefied gas illumination

• Hertz wave generator

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COORDINATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
slobodan_at_ifs.hr, dbonacci_at_irb.hr,
vcipan_at_fizika.org

• Organization
• Stimulation for participation
• Help with issues of legal matter

• Coordination
• Web page
• Databases
• Collecting data of all events

• Public relations
• TV, radio, press
• Assistance in search for sponsors
• Spreading the information about the events and
  their results

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REGULAR ACTIVITIES - SPECIAL OCCASION

• International conference Mind and Brain V,
  Dubrovnik, September 2005
  
• Theme Physics and the Brain
• www.brain.hr (selma_at_brain.hr)

• 14th days of Frane Petric, Croatian
  Philosophical Society,
  
• Cres, September 2005
• Theme Theory of relativity and philosophy
• tomislav.petkovic_at_fer.hr

• ICAM/MAP International conference on Alpine
  meteorology and Mesoscale Alpine programm ,
  Zadar, May 2005
  
• http//meteo.hr/ICAM2005 (picek_at_cirus.dhz.hr)

• Popular public lectures at Observatory Zagreb,
• Wednesday and Friday evening, Through the year
• drosa_at_hpd.botanic.hr

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CONCLUDING REMARKS

• We are rather late with preparations, but most of
  the projects can be fulfilled

• Not enough connected to the World activities, but
  there is interest for some of them (e.g. Talent
  Search ? kzadro_at_phy.hr )
  
• (EurophysicsFun ? Magic bus (students))
• (Light enlightens ? )

• Not all Croatian activities are presented. We are
  not aiming to centralize the events.

• Most of the activities are planned to be
  sustainable.