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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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Intro Physics:

A train leaves Cleveland...

Category: Worked Problems

The new academic year is starting, and if there's one thing students love it's a good word problem. If Sue is four times as old as John will be when Sue is one year than John... So in that spirit...

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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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Posted by Matt Springer at 10:32 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Diavolo!

Category: Intro Physics

This guy is Allo Diavolo: He was a circus daredevil. At the dawn of the 20th century he worked on a number of stunts dressed in his ominous horned outfit. These days a lot of people, including me, have heard...

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