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141. Atom bomb saved physics? (score: 13)

Author: Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>

Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 07:14:28 -0400

The school year started but I am still adding "reflections" to my Alaska Notes essay at: <http://alpha.montclair.edu/~kowalskiL/magadan/marek.html> In the process I found an interesting 1991 book by

/archives/2000/09_2000/msg00283.html (8,154 bytes)

142. Sunsets (score: 13)

Author: Hugh Logan <hlogan1@BELLSOUTH.NET>

Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:50:45 -0400

The thread on sunsets (and the blue color of the sky) has caused me enough cognitive discord to unpack a few references in an attempt to scatter some light on the subject. Dan's original attempt to e

/archives/2000/08_2000/msg00437.html (14,284 bytes)

143. NYTimes.com Article: 10 Physics Questions to Ponder for a Millennium or Two (score: 13)

Author: Larry Smith <larry.smith@SNOW.EDU>

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:14:37 -0400

This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by Larry larry.smith@snow.edu. PHYS-L Are there other important questions you'd add to the list? Larry larry.smith@snow.edu /-- advertisement --\ Ce

/archives/2000/08_2000/msg00158.html (18,483 bytes)

144. Imaginary reality (score: 13)

Author: Jane Jackson <jane.jackson@ASU.EDU>

Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:35:23 -0700

Dan Schroeder said: "But with complex numbers, it seems a little too lucky that the rule for multiplication, "derived" using the crazy formula i^2 = -1, would turn out to be just what we need. This i

/archives/2000/04_2000/msg00343.html (7,601 bytes)

145. enough already with the CF/Wrights stuff? (score: 13)

Author: William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 03:42:45 -0700

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, William Beaty wrote: If PHYS-L prefers, I shall shut up about the Wright Brothers, CF, etc. If nobody says anything, I'll take that as a vote against the CF/Wrights discussion. I

/archives/1999/09_1999/msg00588.html (10,215 bytes)

146. "Horganism"???? Perfect!! (score: 13)

Author: Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:37:36 -0400

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, William Beaty wrote: The sad (and twisted) thing is that Horgan, in "The End of Science", debunks the above idea, and says that physicists DID NOT think science was at an end in

/archives/1999/09_1999/msg00383.html (11,176 bytes)

147. coffee mug oscillatory modes (score: 13)

Author: Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:42:16 -0700

While we're on the topic of cylinder wall resonance I thought I should mention a simple demonstration a colleague at Oxford, a chemist, showed me. Place an empty cylindrical coffee mug on a tabletop

/archives/1999/06_1999/msg00025.html (4,733 bytes)

148. coffee mug oscillatory modes (score: 13)

Author: Mark Sylvester <msylvest@SPIN.IT>

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:29:01 +0200

Pretty good! I read this just as finished my morning coffee, emptying the high-quality mug that I bought at the Roentgen Museum last summer. Tapped lightly with a plastic ballpen, the mug produces th

/archives/1999/06_1999/msg00029.html (5,445 bytes)

149. coffee mug oscillatory modes (score: 13)

Author: Roger Haar <haar@PHYSICS.ARIZONA.EDU>

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:37:23 -0700

Hi, This is pretty cool, but are we talking geographical north or magnetic north? Is this phenomenon magnetic or related to the spin of the Earth? Thanks Roger Haar P.S. My standard cup which is an o

/archives/1999/06_1999/msg00040.html (5,325 bytes)

150. Essential (was Computer) Skills (score: 13)

Author: kyle forinash <forinas@indiana.edu>

Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:34:06 -0400

As long as we are talking about essential skills for a modern physicist What other skills and/or course work do folks on the list think are essential these days for an undergrad physics degree? How m

/archives/1998/09_1998/msg00200.html (6,740 bytes)

151. Light bulb ohmicity (score: 13)

Author: Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:00:21 -0800

David Bowman writes: Light bulb filaments are made of tungsten. Tungsten is a metal. Metals are ohmic substances. Ohmic substances obey Ohm's law. What it *means* to obey Ohm's law is that for a unif

/archives/1998/03_1998/msg00173.html (6,781 bytes)

152. Light bulb ohmicity (score: 13)

Author: "James W. Wheeler" <jwheeler@eagle.lhup.edu>

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:59:52 -0500 (EST)

But we often do an Ohmic heating lab in which a heating coil of nichrome (or even a resistor) is immersed in water and the temperature rise is limited to 5-10K. On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Leigh Palmer wrot

/archives/1998/03_1998/msg00177.html (7,209 bytes)

153. Light bulb ohmicity (score: 13)

Author: David Bowman <dbowman@tiger.gtc.georgetown.ky.us>

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:01:28 EST

It seems that the issue of whether light bulb filaments can be said to obey ohm's law or whether they have an intrinsically nonlinear I - V function has stimulated a vigorous discussion. For instance

/archives/1998/03_1998/msg00205.html (14,482 bytes)

154. Light bulb ohmicity (very long) (score: 13)

Author: Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>

Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 23:25:34 -0800

David Bowman has commented on my posting below, and I have left intact the relevant parts, though this gets a bit lengthy. It appears I did not explain my points well, so I will do so here at more le

/archives/1998/03_1998/msg00240.html (16,113 bytes)

155. lawless physics (fwd) (score: 13)

Author: Joseph Bellina <jbellina@saintmarys.edu>

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:24:48 -0500 (EST)

Thought you might enjoy this. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:29:59 -0800 From: Patricia Schwarz <patricia@THEORY.CALTECH.EDU> To: WISENET@listserv.uic.edu Subject: lawless physics

/archives/1998/03_1998/msg00278.html (4,751 bytes)

156. Inertia and Lenz's Law (score: 13)

Author: George Spagna <gspagna@rmc.edu>

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 10:47:12 -0500

At 10:00 AM 11/27/97 -0500, Tom McCarthy wrote: I was at a talk where a physicist stated that pulling a table cloth out from beneath a set table was not truly a demonstration of the property of inert

/archives/1997/11_1997/msg00528.html (4,921 bytes)

157. Envir. Sustainability/Al Bartlett (score: 13)

Author: twayburn@juno.com (Thomas L Wayburn)

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 03:45:09 EDT

Wayburn places his comments concerning the following posting at the beginning of his reply to save time on the spell checker. The next passage is in quotes to indicate that it is copied out of contex

/archives/1997/10_1997/msg00052.html (13,265 bytes)

158. position available in physics education (score: 13)

Author: Lisa Morris <Lisa_Morris@wsu.edu>

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:39:06 -0700

Below is an advertisement and related information about an open position in physics education at Washington State University. Please forward this information to anyone you think might be interested i

/archives/1997/09_1997/msg00385.html (14,252 bytes)

159. Pinhole camera (score: 13)

Author: William Beaty <billb@eskimo.com>

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 19:13:47 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, roger haar wrote: Several of us have been discussing the pinhole camera. We disagreed on using the terms "image" and "focus" in conjuction with pinhole optics. I claim a pinhole

/archives/1997/06_1997/msg00202.html (13,827 bytes)

160. Jackson on Jackson (score: 13)

Author: palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:33:38 -0800

Not all capable students have the interest nor desire to become physics majors. I had no interest in becoming a physician, a lawyer, or a multitude of other professional people even though I was capa

/archives/1996/11_1996/msg00246.html (11,308 bytes)

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