This is a web page for the Society of Physics Students at the University at Albany. Membership to the organization is open to all physics majors and those interested in physics at the University. Our goals are to promote and disseminate all the tools and resources available to physics majors. Our group promotes a closeness between its members by working towards sharing common goals in our chosen field. The Society of Physics Students also has an honor society component, Sigma Pi Sigma.
Although physics is a hard discipline, mastering it is a lot easier and more rewarding with the help of others. Physics often involves a group effort or the combinations of individaul efforts. For example what would would the famous Michelson-Morley experiment be without Morley and just Michelson? And without it, Einstein may never have formulated his theory of relativity.
I would also like to point out the fact that physics majors are not all dorks who lock themselves in their rooms on Saturday nights trying to figure out where the center of mass of the universe is. Many of us are useful members of society who belong to clubs and social organizations and partake in the many same activities that all college students do.
F.Y.I.- You would not even be viewing this web page right now had the internet not been developed by, yes that's right, a physicist, Tim Berners Lee, who cooked up a way to easily cross-reference text on the Internet through "hypertext" links. Thanks to this useful tool life has become so much more convenient. Now we can go to school, go to work, shop, and talk to friends all on a little box. Now we don't have to see daylight to have a productive day, and we have a physicist to thank.
SPS is an organization of the American Institute of Physics.
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." -- Sir Issac Newton
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