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Matt Springer is a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M university. He is also an occasional writer and tinkerer, and he is probably too curious for his own good.
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November 26, 2008
Ok, ok, I admit there's post-1900 classical that I really like. Copland and Gershwin in particular were mentioned by a number of people, and both are great. I made my first acquaintance with Copland when I was a little kid...
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November 25, 2008
There's no critical mass for genius.
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November 24, 2008
Classical is how you look at it.
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November 23, 2008
Category: Sunday Function
Think of that graph as a clay sculpture.
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November 22, 2008
Take a look at the opening paragraph of this great AFP article: It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists. I'm...
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November 21, 2008
Another former astronaut, one of the few in the extremely exclusive club of men who've walked the lunar surface, is advocating a human return. There's not many people who'd like to see such a thing more than me. Officially it's...
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November 20, 2008
Category: Intro Physics
Catch a baseball thrown at you with high energy and it doesn't turn red hot when you bring it to a stop.
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November 19, 2008
Category: Greatest Physicists
#3 - James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell is my favorite physicist. This site takes its name from a wise thing he once said: "In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which...
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November 18, 2008
A question before the physics: I hear Hillary Clinton is being considered for a position as Secretary of State. Let's say this is true. Why would a senator want to take that job? It's a temporary position. Eight years max,...
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November 17, 2008
But in fact even in a perfect vacuum with no external forces but gravity we still won't get a parabola.
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