At the University of Utah, Adam Beehler shrink-wrapped a student and levitated another with a leaf blower. It was all part of a day’s work for the university’s physics demonstrator. Adam is a Lecture Demonstration Specialist with the department of Physics and Astronomy, where he manages the school’s large collection of demonstration equipment, runs demonstrations for instructors, and teaches a class of his own, entitled The Way Things Work. The concepts he demonstrates are old – one law that predicts the effects of electromagnetism dates back to 1834 – and don’t really change, but he says the job doesn’t get old. “I like the concept so much this doesn’t get boring to me,” Beehler said. “Sometimes the students will think, ‘Oh, that’s magic.’ Physics seems like magic. It’s just magic of the universe. It just naturally works that way,” he said.

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