MURFREESBORO, Tenn. —
MTSU Physics and Astronomy professor Eric
Klumpe finishes the spring semester Department
of Physics and Astronomy First
Friday Star Party with “Funky Fizix
in Film” starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 5, in Wiser-Patten Science Hall
Room 102.
Weather permitting, a telescope viewing will follow the 45-
to 60-minute lecture. The star parties are free and open to the public. To find
Wiser-Patten Science Hall and nearby parking, visit http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
First Friday Star
Parties are a way for the department to bring the campus, Murfreesboro and
surrounding communities together, with faculty sharing about planets, the sun
and moon and other celestial objects and phenomena.
“Funky Fizix in
Film” has been a theme Klumpe has been following for the past four to five
years, where he explores how “physics” and astronomy is used in the plot of
some films.
“What changes is
which films I review,” he said. “The spring 2017 installment will be about
movies with solar eclipses, how the eclipses tie into the plot of the film and
whether or not the portrayal of the eclipse is scientifically accurate or not.
Klumpe said the
tie-in with solar eclipses will point toward the Aug. 21 “Great Tennessee
Eclipse at MTSU.”
“It will be a
solar eclipse party that MTSU will be participating in,” Klumpe said. “We want
as many people as possible to be aware of this event so they do not have any
regrets about not making plans to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity.”
Nashville and
parts of Middle Tennessee will be in the direct path of the eclipse, which is
expected to begin around 1:28 p.m. and last nearly two minutes. It is the first
total solar eclipse visible in the U.S. in 38 years.
For more information about star parties or the department,
call 615-898-2130 or visit http://www.mtsu.edu/programs/astronomy/
and http://www.mtsu.edu/programs/physics/.
Physics and astronomy is one of 11 departments in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences.
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