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Well, I haven't died in a fire yet.
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An exploration of physics and the quest to understand our world.
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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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January 31, 2009
January 30, 2009
Physics and Relationships
Ok, so you won't find this in Landau. But I have a suspicion that it might be true anyway...
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January 29, 2009
What Entropy Is
Disorder increases. Absolute zero is impossible. Engines can't turn heat into work with perfect efficiency. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
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January 28, 2009
Slowing the earth
Consider the turntable of an old record player. Or equivalently, a CD affixed to a player so that it may spin freely. We'll pretend there's no friction, though as always reality will manage to generate some. Now stretch your imagination...
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January 27, 2009
Wanderlust
But wondering if the grass is greener elsewhere in the wide world? Well sure.
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January 26, 2009
Star Light, Star Bright
Or: the sun as a compost heap.
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January 25, 2009
Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
Integration by parts - with some physics-style finagling.
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January 24, 2009
Best Picture
Wall-E is the best film of 2008.
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January 23, 2009
Improving on SI
It would be more natural to define units of measurement in terms of physical constants rather than physical constants in terms of whatever human-sized conveniences happen to be in use
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January 22, 2009
Volume and Entropy
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics hold a bit of an odd place in the heart and mind of a physics student. On one hand it's one of the few subjects with truly universal applicability. No matter if you work in galaxy...
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