This Friday February 1, Professor David Kelly plays with GRAVITY, GADGETS, GIZMOS, AND THE GÖMBÖC

COME SEE (From the Wonderful WACKY World of Wet Water) a Tantalus Cup, a drinking bird, a genuine Spill Not, a mysterious Floating Hourglass, and  the still-YOUNG year’s Best chance to see Which Ice Cube Melts More Fasterly.

Be AMAZED by the Movi Globe, 3-sided dice, happy and sad balls, a butterfly in a jar, gravity tubes, more Random capitalization, rattlebacks, and approximately-Perpetual Motion Machines.

MAKE Möbius Marvels.

LEARN the names of other Famous Dead People as You Observe Jacob’s Ladder, the Euler DISK, a Galton Board, Newton’s cradle, Maxwell’s wheel, Klein bottles, and a Phi Top.

WATCH, if You Dare, Optical (OR Visual) Illusions (NO COLLUSION), among which (WITCH HUNT)  are: a reversal-resisting Arrow, a front Surface Mirror (see how you’re SEEN), A sphere rising in a Spring, a Red Reversing Mirror, a money-shrinking Bank, and a Floating Pig.

David C. Kelly, professor emeritus of mathematics, has taught at New College, Oberlin, and Talladega College. He holds an AB from Princeton, an SM from MIT, and an AM from Dartmouth. He has, since 1971, directed the well-respected Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics for high ability high school students. His interests include analysis, probability, the history of mathematics, recreational mathematics, and 17.

Fantastic Friday is a weekly seminar where either faculty, student(s), a class, or a visiting lecturer gives a presentation/talk about their research or other academic project. As the name implies, this takes place Fridays, from 12-1pm, in Cole Science Rm 333. Lunch is always provided; vegetarian, vegan, and GF options will be available.