Physics Images
An RMC Officer Cadet peers through a portable telescope, while a colleague looks on. (DND / Patrice Lapointe)
Professor Wade and several Officer Cadets inside one of the RMC Observatory domes, discussing the operation of the telescope system. (DND / Patrice Lapoite)
RMC Space Science students at the Queen’s Space Conference.
Two Officer Cadets use an optical interferometer to measure the wavelength of the light emitted by ionized mercury gas.
RMC Physics & Space Science teamed up once again with Queen’s Astronomy and the Kingston RASC in support of Science Rendezvous 2018 at the Kingston K-ROCK Centre.
The 2018 Canadian Association Physicists (CAP) Lecture, entitled "Energy and Society: What Kind of Energy for the Future of Humanity?" was presented by Dr. Federico Rosei of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS).
Nanolithography conducted on a polymer film in Dr. Sabat’s lab. The image scale is approximately 20 micrometers, or 2-3 times smaller than the average diameter of a human hair.
An RMCC Officer Cadet (left) holds a GPS drifter, used to measure currents in lakes and rivers.
Drifter position data are recorded over time, as depicted by the blue dots in the map of Lake Ontario (right).
RMC’s first orbiting payload was recently launched on the CanX-7 nano-satellite.
Dr. Juliette Mammei of the University of Manitoba gave a lecture entitled "Low energy searches for physics beyond the standard model" as part of the 2017 Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) lecture tour on Thursday 16 March 2017.
Canadian astronaut 21364 LCol Jeremy Hansen visited the College as part of Reunion Weekend 2016.
LCol Hansen gave a lecture on the history of the Canadian space program.
The RMCC Physics department operates several optical telescopes.
The observatories are located on the roof of the Sawyer Science Complex.
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