Founded in 1874 at the University Cambridge by James Clerk Maxwell and having 30 Nobel-laureates in its history, the Cavendish Laboratory is among the world’s foremost physics departments. After spending 100 years at the New Museum Site, in 1974 it moved to its current location.
The department is involved both in graduate and undergraduate teaching. The first Natural Science course (IA) aims to introduce basic concepts. In the first practical class, students got involved in a variety of interesting experiments. Our top picture shows Andrew Ko-Ferrigno and his classmate Tatiana getting familiar with stable and unstable equilibrium while observing the interesting dynamical motion of the Gömböc when supported on a horizontal surface.