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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 29, 2010
I believe we have a Super Bowl coming up. Or, if the NFL is so picky about the use of their trademarks, I believe we have a "Big Game" coming up. As a native south Louisianian, I'm for the eternally...
Posted by Matt Springer at 1:18 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2010
Let's say you wanted to kill NASA.
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January 26, 2010
I'm a bit bogged down in Mathematica code at the moment and have already choked the memory to death on a relatively high-performance machine doing what I thought would be a straightforward electric field calculation. Rechecking everything is taking some...
Posted by Matt Springer at 1:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2010
Category: Sunday Function
A generating function
Posted by Matt Springer at 10:34 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 22, 2010
If you were to find the URL to the ScienceBlogs back end, you'd be presented with a logon prompt. Assuming you knew my username, and it wouldn't be hard to guess, all that stands in between you and a free...
Posted by Matt Springer at 11:22 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2010
This is a little off the beaten path, but it's a silly little diversion with some classic "the press lacks numeracy skills" complaints as a bonus. Thomas Frank writing in the Wall Street Journal has written a rather wild piece...
Posted by Matt Springer at 1:51 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 20, 2010
First day of the semester yesterday. Wide-eyed undergrads were flocking to their physics classes in our brand new and completely beautiful building. I'm not so sure they were thrilled about it; doing physics is not something that naturally appeals to...
Posted by Matt Springer at 10:36 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2010
Category: Sunday Function
...you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? - Dirty Harry The laws of probability, like most of the mathematical rules that govern the world, are a relatively recent discovery. Ancient people like...
Posted by Matt Springer at 10:38 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 14, 2010
This particular pendulum hangs in the central atrium of the long-named George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy.
Posted by Matt Springer at 10:09 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 13, 2010
Some classic classical physics.
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