Always students come away with a new appreciation of the pleasures and challenges of doing research. Areas of interest include acoustics, chaos, CCD astronomy, instrmentation, computer programming, and physics education. Undergraduate students at FSU may participate in summer undergraduate research programs offered by various universities throughout the United States. Participation in such programs is on a competitive basis. For example, FSU students have recently participated in summer undergraduate research programs at Argonne National Lab and Michigan State University.
Today is an exciting time to study physics.
Physicists study everything from the dynamics of the grains of sand on a beach to the formation of galaxies, from elementary particles to semiconductors, from fiber optics to computers. Physicists test their ideas by performing experiments which lead to new ideas and theories. If you like science and mathematics, you will probably like physics. If you like to explore and figure out why things are the way they are, you will like physics. If you like to ask questions about the natural world, and if you like to think of ways to answer those questions, you will enjoy physics.