In a few days, I'm leaving Mystery City for a whole month. Wow, that's a long time. It's a trip combining visits to family with a workshop and some field work, and Minnow will be along for the whole incredible journey. Fish will be with us for a week and then he'll return home to care for the Princess Pup.
Needless to say, I've got a lot to get done before we go. In lieu of real content today, below the fold, I've got a partial to-do list for today. Maybe I'll update this as I proceed through the week, maybe not.
- Set up bill pay to cover the household bills while I'm gone.
- Fix the Endnote output style for Journal of X so that it actually matches Journal of X (including all those journal title abbrevs.)
- Make sure I take all the files I'll need to submit to journal of X when the last co-author gives the OK
- Arrange for a rental pickup truck for the field work
- Find sufficient boxes to ship field equipment
- Pack and ship field equipment
- Find the manual for the complicated piece of field equipment
- Buy a larger suitcase for Minnow and I
- Take the files I need for my workshop presentation
- Get driving directions to tomorrow's field site
- Print out and read papers relevant to tomorrow's field trip
Back to work!
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In the initial "Basic Concepts" post, I discussed the concept of Force in physics. This time out, I'll be talking about fields, which is a much dicier proposition.
So far we've seen that electric charges create electric fields. We've also seen that magnetic charges would create magnetic fields if there were any such things, but there aren't.
When we start looking at fields, there are a collection
of properties that are interesting. The simplest one - and
the one which explains the property of the nimbers that
makes them so strange - is called the
characteristic of the field. (In fact, the
To end this week, we wrap up electricity and magnetism with the fourth and final of Maxwell's equations. this one includes Maxwell's own personal contribution to these:
Ooooh, I need a list too... good idea!
Whoooa... Good luck!