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81. undergrad quantum (score: 18)

Author: Timothy Usher <tusher@wiley.csusb.edu>

Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:34:46 -0700 (PDT)

Dear esteemed colloquies, No, I am not asking for money :-) I am asking for words of wisdom. I have gotten my hands on the undergraduate, upper division quantum courses for the first time in the eigh

/archives/1998/09_1998/msg00034.html (4,462 bytes)

82. undergrad quantum (score: 18)

Author: "Rauber, Joel Phys" <RAUBERJ@mg.sdstate.edu>

Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 12:52 -0600

Timothy, Is this a one semester, two semester, two quarter or what course? The answer would strongly affect my choice of text. Joel Rauber rauberj@mg.sdstate.edu -- From: Timothy Usher To: phys-l Sub

/archives/1998/09_1998/msg00035.html (6,852 bytes)

83. Essential (was Computer) Skills (score: 18)

Author: jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu (James Mclean)

Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:11:10 -0700 (PDT)

kyle forinash says: 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 p

/archives/1998/09_1998/msg00202.html (4,609 bytes)

84. On electronics (was Computer Skills) (score: 18)

Author: "Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@velocity.net>

Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 12:56:24 -0400

--Original Message-- From: Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@Mail.Montclair.edu> To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu> Date: Friday, September 18, 1998 12:08 AM Subject: Re: On electronics (

/archives/1998/09_1998/msg00224.html (7,908 bytes)

85. Explaining explain (score: 18)

Author: LUDWIK KOWALSKI <KOWALSKIL@alpha.montclair.edu>

Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 10:05:24 -0400 (EDT)

Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 00:34:28 -0500 From: Bob Sciamanda <trebor@velocity.net> Subject: Re: Explaining explain . . . "truth" is a troublesome word we can quite well do without when we talk about sci

/archives/1998/02_1998/msg00000.html (20,576 bytes)

86. the historical determination of absolute zero (score: 13)

Author: "Prof. Keith S. Taber" <kst24@cam.ac.uk>

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:36:01 +0100

This is from a popular science book by the physicist George Gamow: If we heat the liquid the wild dance of tiny particles suspended in it becomes more violent; with cooling the intensity of the motio

/archives/2024/10_2024/msg00000.html (7,666 bytes)

87. the historical determination of absolute zero (score: 13)

Author: Paul Nord <Paul.Nord@valpo.edu>

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:23:22 -0500

That's the origin of that lie then? Motion does not cease at 0ēK. But we can say nothing about what the motion is. It will be in the minimum state allowed by quantum mechanics. This is not rest. It d

/archives/2024/10_2024/msg00003.html (11,553 bytes)

88. the historical determination of absolute zero (score: 13)

Author: "Prof. Keith S. Taber" <kst24@cam.ac.uk>

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:37:48 +0100

Ignoring ZPE might have been a deliberate simplification in a book for a popular readership? My question was more about the claimed role of Brownian motion in coming to a figure of -273C for absolute

/archives/2024/10_2024/msg00004.html (14,065 bytes)

89. the historical determination of absolute zero (score: 13)

Author: Chuck Britton <britton@ncssm.edu>

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:30:59 -0400

Doug Osheroff knew that superfluid helium (BOTH isotopes) continues to flow without viscosity and super currents continue to flow without resistance in superconductors as absolute zero is approached.

/archives/2024/10_2024/msg00005.html (12,316 bytes)

90. Data Science for Physicists - Is there a dataset all students should see? (score: 13)

Author: Paul Nord <Paul.Nord@valpo.edu>

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:51:00 -0600

Steve, Yes, the HR diagram is one of the first examples that came to my mind. I have a colleague here that does a lab with the astronomy students to produce an HR diagram from the Gaia dataset. I sho

/archives/2022/11_2022/msg00003.html (13,046 bytes)

91. Data Science for Physicists - Is there a dataset all students should see? (score: 13)

Author: Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>

Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:55:06 +0000 (UTC)

I am tickled with the Genetic Algorithm method. Though a usable example can be made in less than a dozen lines of Basic,I show instead a coder creating one in Python to calculate a root of a cubic fu

/archives/2022/11_2022/msg00004.html (14,788 bytes)

92. big circuit (score: 13)

Author: Shahram Mostarshed <smostarshed@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2021 19:27:34 -0800

Hopefully this video will settle the argument that Veritasium was wrong in implying that energy doesn't flow in wires: https://youtu.be/-jJB8dyOJIw S. Mostarshed Physics Instructor, Stanford OHS On T

/archives/2021/12_2021/msg00002.html (7,936 bytes)

93. big circuit (score: 13)

Author: "Zani, Gerald" <gerald_zani@brown.edu>

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:23:06 -0500

I spoke with a Faculty today about the video. Here is what I have. This is a compilation of his thoughts: The key is to realize that we teach about simple resistor circuits classically, without any f

/archives/2021/11_2021/msg00042.html (7,148 bytes)

94. prepping (score: 13)

Author: bnorwood111@gmail.com

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:37:59 -0400

Plain and simple - This is fear mongering by intellectuals we trust to know better. I see an equivalence between the non-epidemiologists who falsely declared an aids epidemic and the non-epidemiologi

/archives/2020/3_2020/msg00028.html (9,486 bytes)

95. Status of Superstring and M Theory? (score: 13)

Author: "Don" <dgpolvani@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:18:29 -0400

I recently took a video course on superstring theory given by Professor S. James Gates, Jr., then of the University of Maryland, and published by The Great Courses. The course is intended for lay peo

/archives/2019/3_2019/msg00014.html (5,343 bytes)

96. area of the shaded triangle (score: 13)

Author: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>

Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:26:37 -0700

On 04/29/2018 02:19 PM, Scott Orshan via Phys-l wrote: just looking at it, it seems as if the area will go from 1/2 to 1/4 of the area, as the slanted line sweeps from the upper left corner to the up

/archives/2018/4_2018/msg00026.html (8,730 bytes)

97. Thorne, executive producer. Was: Re: Interstellar (score: 13)

Author: Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>

Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 20:28:22 -0800

Interstellar, an outer-space survivalist epic created by the director Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan, with whom he co-wrote the screenplay, is ardently, even fervently incomprehensible, a

/archives/2014/11_2014/msg00044.html (7,343 bytes)

98. multitasking (score: 13)

Author: "John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:53:26 -0500

Everyone agrees that there are things that are completely asyncronous in the brain and body. The NPR story was just considering cognitive processes, and as such was accurate. When people talk about m

/archives/2012/6_2012/msg00116.html (12,094 bytes)

99. Significant figures -- again (score: 13)

Author: "Jeffrey Schnick" <JSchnick@Anselm.Edu>

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:37:44 -0400

I think I run into some of the folks that follow the kind of advice in the message below. By way of a simple example of what this leads to: On using a pan balance marked off to the nearest 10th of a

/archives/2012/3_2012/msg00097.html (8,811 bytes)

100. for people who love calculus... (score: 13)

Author: "Anthony Lapinski" <Anthony_Lapinski@pds.org>

Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:02:42 -0500

A math teacher sent this to me. Thought I'd share it with you. Watch this humorous debate between two math professors, Colin Adams and Tom Garrity, at Williams College, moderated by President (and th

/archives/2012/2_2012/msg00287.html (4,121 bytes)

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