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Welcome to the Physics Department

Biogenic Electric Currents 10/20/2011 One of the interesting research activities involving physics students is a collaboration with the New Paltz Developmental Bio lab. Investigators in this lab work with the flatworm planaria, an amazing creature that develops into two complete planaria a short time after being cut in half. The physics part of this is... Read more
Checking out the Toys 04/14/2011 On Saturday, April 2, the Physics department participated in the College’s annual Accepted Students Open House by opening up one of the physics labs to prospective physics majors. Faculty demonstrated some of the equipment that students typically use in the lab, and answered questions about the courses and programs. Then it... Read more
General Physics 1 share information about their physics lab experiments 12/15/2010 Read more

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Physics Department
South Classroom Building 107
State University of New York at New Paltz
1 Hawk Dr.
New Paltz, NY 12561

Phone: (845) 257-3740
Fax: (845) 257-3755