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Facilities and Equipment

The Physics Department has teaching classrooms/laboratories, research spaces, and faculty and staff offices on the third floor of the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences

Physics students at Skidmore gain hands-on experience in the Machine Shop and the IdeaLab makerspace through activities and projects that are built into the physics curriculum. Previous projects that physics students have worked on using the Skidmore Machine Shop and/or IdeaLab makerspace include:

  • subwoofer and tweeter
  • drone
  • wind tunnel
  • self-balancing robot
  • musical instruments (banjo, ukelele, kalimba)
  • acoustic levitator to study atmospheric water droplets
  • miniature carved boat
  • public address loudspeaker
  • model cars
  • Turner's cube
  • radio telescope
  • ultrasonic levitator
  • robotic arm
  • quadruped robot
  • egg-painting robot
  • spinning tops
  • dice
  • da Vinci catapult
  • desk organizer
  • jewelry box
  • skateboard
精东AV physics student smiles while working with a transparent celestial globe marked with constellations and stars.
Two students work to build a prototype in Skidmore's IdeaLab
Three students work on maze in a physics lab
Students work at various tables in a Skidmore physics lab
Two students look at an image of the moon on a computer screen
Student sits at a desk staring at a chalkboard with physics equations on a chalkboard