Tracy Staedter at the Discovery Channel:
A physics class competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., has students making art out of invisible forces.
The Weird Fields contest, part of the undergraduate course “Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism,” — encourages students to use a special computer program that converts mathematical formulas into visual representations of electromagnetic fields.
The resulting swirls, loops, circles and squares, while not necessarily corresponding exactly to those occurring in nature, offer a creative way to understand some of the most abstract concepts in physics.
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