A Brief History of Light
So what exactly is light, anyway?
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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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March 31, 2010
March 26, 2010
Brilliant Pebbles & A Physics Festival
Category: Worked Problems
If you happen to be in the Bryan/College Station area tomorrow, you might consider checking out the Texas A&M Physics Festival. It's sort of an open house with a ridiculous number of top-notch physics demonstrations as well as some very...
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March 25, 2010
The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
Somehow - and I don't know exactly how, you know how the internet is - I came across this odd but cute song by the ineffable Weird Al. It's an almost seven-minute(!) ode to the roadside attraction that is the...
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March 21, 2010
Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
This is the graph of the line y = x: If you put your finger down on any point on that line, and then put another finger on another point on that line, you find that the total change in...
Posted by Matt Springer at 2:40 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 19, 2010
Death-Defying Inclined Planes!
I don't know what the Indian equivalent of OSHA might think, but the laws of physics are fine with this bit of daring.
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March 14, 2010
Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
Happy pi day!
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March 12, 2010
Stealth in Space, pt. 2
Something to think about if people ever come to blows over mining Ceres.
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March 10, 2010
Stealth in Space
While doing some poking around online, I came across a website called Project Rho, which tries to provide some science background for science fiction writers who want some degree of technical accuracy in their imaginative work. Generally it looks like...
Posted by Matt Springer at 2:54 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 8, 2010
Sunday Function
Category: Sunday Function
Do you share a birthday?
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March 4, 2010
Hearing The Uncertainty Principle
Musically speaking.
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