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PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES (Recent minutes at the bottom, and last year’s minutes after that)


October 3, 2009

6:30 Minutes Start

6:31-6:37 Project leaders start their discussions. I give my status, then Phil, then Shane.

6:37-6:39 Discussion on whether or not we have a t-shirt idea.

6:39 Order an electronic vote for letting the grad students design the t-shirt. T-shirt designs will be simpler than the previous years.

6:41 High Voltage Discussed.

6:44 Email commissioned: If you’re generally part of a project you need to come over on the Friday the 16th for safety inspection.

 

Due to a Calc 3 test, minutes were not recorded on September 24, 2009.

 

September 10, 2009

4:31 Hank starts meeting

4:32 Saturday 1 PM projects start again

4:33 Hank asks about project leaders. Starts with Sara and the Arcade Machine

4:34 Treasury has been counted.

4:35 Fundraiser Ideas: T-Shirt, Game competition night.

4:36 Game competition night discussed.

4:37 Jean Luc arrive. Fundraiser idea: Physics Cooking.

4:38 Justin arrives.

4:40 Hank says that we need to have a mailbox and talk to the office to get a mailbox. Do not put in anything perishable and leave it in there for a long duration of time.

4:42 6:30 is now the new meeting time.

4:44 Project people accounted for.

4:46 Hands raised for machine shop training.

 

August 27, 2009

4:30 Hank Lamm starts introductions

4:33 Hank discusses movie nights

4:37 Movie Votes

4:39 Movie selected as “Journey to the Edge of the Universe”

4:40 Project discussion starts (Details can be found in the Projects Page)

4:48 Machine Shop Discussion

 

Old Minutes

YEAR 2009

January 27, 2009

-4:40- Meeting Began

Important Dates:

Feb 5- Marlatt Elementary Science Fair

Feb 9- Demo at K-State for Theodore Roosevelt Elementary

Feb. 19- Boy Scout Banquet Presentation

Movie Night: Donnie Darko

Projects:

Railgun: Philip- Sat. noon

Trebuchet: Sara- Fri. 2pm

Lifter: Heidi- Sat. 2pm

Ferro Fluid: Justin(?)- N/A

Accelerator: will be addressed after Lifter is finished.

February 10, 2009

-4:40- Meeting Began

Next Movie Night: 2/10/09

Telefund:

Sun. 2/15/09

Wed. 2/18/09

Boy Scout Demo:

Thurs. 2/19/09

February 24, 2009

-4:37- Meeting Began

-4:38- Movie Night: Jurassic Park

Boy Scout Demo said we were leet

Jen e-mailed Dr. Corwin about machine shop training

Recycling will be taken care of Friday

Projects: 5 Saturdays until Open House

Trebuchet: Halted Until Members can use Machine Shop

Pi Day is March 14th

But it’s on the Saturday before Spring Break so Jen’s plans failed.

-4:49- Food for Movie Night: Chipolte,

Back-up: Pizza and Wings

Pot Luck Dinner for April Movie Night

-4:53- Meeting Adjourned

March 10, 2009

-4:31- Meeting Began

Dr. Corwin working on planning Machine Shop Training

Open House:

April 18th!

Trebuchet: waiting on Machine Shop Training

Lifter/Rail Gun: Needs High Voltage Power Supply

Possibly will buy one

Cluster Computer: Shane is diagnosing hardware issues

-4:34- Jen makes movie reference that no one gets

March 24, 2009

-4:36- Meeting Began

-Machine Shop Training – Thursday Afternoon

-Game Night

-Early May, end of semester party

-Pot-Luck

-Projects – Meeting 3:00 Saturday

-Open House: April 18th

-3 Saturdays

-Ordering food

Budget

$524.71

-4:47- Movie Night

4/3/09

Andromeda Strain

Chinese Food?

-5:00-Meeting Adjourned

 

YEAR 2008

October 15, 2008

-4:30- Shane cheated on crossword puzzle

-4:33- Nels told a horrible joke

-4:36- Meeting Began

-Projects: (need to be done by Open House)

-Rail gun-

Proof of concept demo is finished.

Working on design to fit in a small box

-Gauss Gun-

No Report

-Trebuchet-

Needs project manager and rules for contest

-Arcade-

No Report

-Lifter-

Needs 25,000V voltmeter to continue

-Ferro Fluid-

No Report

-Accelerator Model-

Subatomic particles will be ping-pong ball size

Need ideas to continues, so group will meet soon

-Tesla Coil-

Gathering Resources

October 29, 2008

-4:24- Nels gets drink of water

-4:24- Nels reminds Jacob to type minutes of last meeing

-4:29-Phil shocked Justin with balsa wood.

-4:43- Meeting Began

-Projects: (need to be done by Open House)

-Rail gun-

In box design by next meeting

-Gauss Gun-

Got measurements from small Gauss Gun

Plan on using a magnetic spring on a rod

-Trebuchet-

waiting for rules for contest

-Arcade-

Needs someone to take over

Likely to be put on hiatus

-Lifter-

Tested Components

-Ferro Fluid-

Have a concept

Need more fluid

-Accelerator Model-

Have design concepts

Research in progress

-Tesla Coil-

No Report

-4:49- Tools: Project leaders need to get lists of to Hank

-4:50- Movie Vote: Waking Life

-4:57- Book Sale: Dec. 3-5 (W-F) from 9am to 3pm

-5:01- Shwank Award: Dr. Weaver

-5:07- Meeting Adjourned

November 12, 2008

-4:40- Meeting Began

-Movie Night – Friday December 12

-Book Sale – December 4-5

-4:41- Chad motions Hank can’t suggest movies

-Motion retracted

-4:43- Chad motions a project only meeting for next Wednesday

Project meeting: Wednesday Nov. 19, 4:30

-4:47- Rail Gun demo

Magnets were flipped, and Chad “looked like a jackass”

-4:51- Phil does “CD Ionization Demo Thingy of Science”

-5:06- Locker clean-up proposed and sign-up for book sale posted on board

-5:07- Meeting Adjourned

November 26 – No Minutes

December 10 – No Minutes

 

 

YEAR 2007

<< January 23rd, 2007 >>

Telefund volunteers:

Feb. 20th: Asma, Jen, Zack, Chad
Feb. 21st: Jen, Zack, Chad

See front page for upcoming movie night 

<< November 19th, 2007 >>

Book sale is going well.

<< November 5th, 2007 >>

T-shirts will be in on November 15th and after we sort them by buyer, we'll let everyone know when and where they can be picked up (probably a table set up of some sort - hey why not during the book sale?)

The book sale is November 19th and 20th in the front of CW.

We started a new project - getting ready for the LANL trip for next semester

<< October 22nd, 2007 >>

Finalized decisions in order of chronology:

T-shirts: the order will be made Tuesday, October 23rd, and
they will be available whenever Ballards finishes them.
Also, we will order some so we can sell them with books
during the book sale, and to give to the guest lecturer and
at open house

Projects for Open House (April 19th '08): Arcade Machine with
physicsy games on it (flash games and whatnot), a model
accelerator that shoots stuff, and a digital acoustic guitar

Next PhysClub meeting: Monday, November 5th at 4:30pm in CW40

Movie Night: November 16th at 7pm in CW119 - Transformers
(2007)

Book sale: Mon, Tues, Wed - November 19th (need volunteers)

Guest lecturer ideas for semester 2: Neil deGrasse Tyson,
Jean Claude Diels, or Alan Guth

<< October 15th, 2007 >>

-Finished t-shirt order setup

-set up a project with three people on it (to justify funding the project with physclub money) Main ideas - going to vote on one at the next meeting:

  • model particle accelerator
  • rail gun
  • ionic wind generator
  • theremin

<< October 10th, 2007 >>

Talked about the same stuff as usual.  Movie night Friday.  See front page.  w00t.

<< September 26th, 2007 >>

On Thursday, October 11th, KSU Physics Alumnus Bill Spencer (PDF) will be giving a talk in the Hemisphere Room in Hale Library (5th Floor) at 3:30pm.

<< September 12th, 2007 >>

Fundraising: books (we might sell them, and are currently looking for donations), t-shirts (CafePress - have people order directly from it - best idea - get sample shirt first), resistor earrings (Asma is working on this)

Build a mini-fridge?

Rube Goldberg competition?

<< August 29th, 2007 >>

1. Dr. Zollman has some words to say on recruitment: "One place to look for new students is the Physics 122 class. They don't even know you guys [Physics Club] exist."
"Get some messages out to the undergrad classes - have professors remind their classes of Physics Club meetings the day of or before."

2. Zollman on funds: we [Physics Club] get to spend the interest from a fund set up by the previous department head, Jim Legg [The Physics Club Endowment], but we probably have a few hundred dollars from it. 3. Physics Graduate students can probably be members of Physics Club, but we have to check with SGA for certain.

4. Fundraiser: book sale; recycle; national society of physics organizations, t-shirts

5. Alumni Speaker: Thursday, October 11, around 3:30 or 4pm: Bill Spencer

He was the CEO for an operation called SEMATECH; credited with creating this operation of a coalition of semiconductor companies.

Previously VP of Xerox… got PhD in KSU in condensed matter physics

6. In-meeting lectures: if you have an idea for professors lecturing on something for a club meeting, bring it up to Aaron Pung.

7. Spring Break travel ideas: LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY in NM is a great idea

8. Budget: we have one. We want people to pay their soda tab

9. Officiality: We are official

10. To discuss later: telefund, spring break, and fundraisers, and career fair

<< September 7, 2006 >>

<< Spring 2006 meeting minutes >>

<< September 22nd meeting minutes >>

<< September 8th meeting minutes >>