Physics, Poop, and Questionable Medicine
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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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April 30, 2009
April 29, 2009
Rockets!
Steve Eves is a man among men.
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April 28, 2009
Sunday Function
Yes, it's Tuesday. Busy weekend, including a Relay for Life (you should find your local one and donate!). Today we'll get back on schedule a bit and make this one a rather more utilitarian than usual Sunday Function, playing into...
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April 25, 2009
The Problem With the Star Wars Preqels
[This post is tremendously nerdy Star Wars fan ranting. There is no physics. You have been warned!] Let me get this straight: I tremendously enjoyed Star Wars: Episodes 1-3. I enjoyed them in all their badly-acted, incoherently characterized, effects-dependent glory....
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April 24, 2009
Bose-Einstein Condensates, pt. 3
"Everybody listen up!" shouts the high school PE coach, "I'm splitting you up into N teams of equal size. I'm going to make the selection of players randomly, so with any luck the teams will be of equal skill. The...
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April 23, 2009
Bose-Einstein Condensates, pt. 2
In which we calculate the 3-d density of states for a particle in a box.
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April 22, 2009
Bose-Einstein Condensates, pt. 1
It's been a while since we've worked on some slightly more heavy-duty physics, so I'm going to spend the next couple of days going through the basics of the theory of Bose-Einstein condensation. Let me set the stage: Particles can...
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April 21, 2009
Sunset Someday
Reader Timothy writes in with a question: It seems that the north pole would get more daylight during the summer solstice than the equator does during an equinox. During the summer solstice, the north pole would get the equivalent of...
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April 19, 2009
Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
"So," Herr Schrodinger says to us, "I'm looking for a function of x. It needs to be equal to the negative of its second derivative, up to a constant factor. When x is zero, the function itself should be zero....
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April 18, 2009
Testing 123
An emailer sends in a link to a comment on The White Coat Underground. It's in the context of naturopathy, the idea that medical problems ought to be treated with natural means. Some of it's a good idea - eating...
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