MT @lets_experiment 17 #equations that changed the world
pic.twitter.com/9zIfJPxFFJ Great list but would’ve included S=k*lnW w/ dS>0 in eq#12
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17 equations that changed the world
March 14, 2014Raffi Khatchadourian: Can an Audacious Plan to Create a New Energy Resource Help Save the Planet? : The New Yorker
March 9, 2014Can a… Plan [for] a New #Energy Resource Help Save the Planet? #Fusion physicists build #ITER, a 21C York Cathedral
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_khatchadourian
Raffi Khatchadourian: Can an Audacious Plan to Create a New Energy Resource Help Save the Planet? : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all
Scitation: Reinventing physics for life-sciences majors
January 1, 2014Reinventing #physics for life-sciences majors. Emphasize energy, #entropy & diffusion. De-emph. rotation & #gravity
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/66/7/10.1063/PT.3.2046
Reinventing physics for life-sciences majors
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/66/7/10.1063/PT.3.2046
http://www.rit.edu/cos/smerc/journalpapers/Meredith_Redish.pdf
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Despite the disparities among biologists, some physics topics can safely be deemphasized in an IPLS course. Those include projectile motion, rotations with constant acceleration, Newton’s law of gravitation, and heat engines. Other topics such as fluids, optics, energy, and entropy gain new prominence. And still other topics not mentioned in the standard algebra-based course should be considered for inclusion: scaling; strength of materials; and gradient-driven flows, including diffusion.
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100 Years of Atomic Theory
December 23, 2013100 Years of #Atomic Theory: explains why deriving the #Rydberg const. from more fundamental ones was so important
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6143/244.summary
Gauss Gun Conservation of Momentum – YouTube
December 23, 2013Gauss Gun Momentum Conservation: a model for exothermic reactions, such as #ATP hydrolysis, with strong & weak bonds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiSd91sLtS4
How Big Is the Proton?
October 31, 2013Interesting discussion of a sort of aberrant hydrogen atom that has a proton and a muon as opposed to an electron. Since the muon is much heavier than the electron it sits much closer to the proton giving a sense of its shape. One can only imagine what muonic helium would look like with two of these things.
How Big Is the Proton? As determined from muonic hydrogen
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6118/405.summary #physics
Quantum physics: A grip on misbehaviour : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
September 12, 2013Interesting discussion of how to tell apart classical and quantum systems using Bells inequality. The basic idea is finding more correlated events between two separate
systems than one might expect classically were they are decoupled. This implies that there is a quantum characteristic to the system. This fact can be exploited to measure the degree to which two systems are behaving as a “quantum unit” in relation to cryptographic applications and large-scale quantum
computation.
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v496/n7446/nature-2013-04-25.html
#Quantum physics: A grip on misbehaviour – explains how Bell’s inequality quantifies #entanglement
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v496/n7446/full/496436a.html #QM
David Deutsch and Quantum Computing : The New Yorker
August 9, 2013Dream Machine: Explains how many-worlds interpretation gives a #quantumcomputer more “ops” than atoms in universe
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/02/110502fa_fact_galchen
Robert Schoelkopf at Yale
www.math.colostate.edu/~yzhou/course/math676_spring2013/biophys_Nelson.pdf
July 6, 2013Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life – Good intuition for free energy as max laziness & max sloppiness!
http://www.math.colostate.edu/~yzhou/course/math676_spring2013/biophys_Nelson.pdf
A Wet Towel In Space Is Not Like A Wet Towel On Earth : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
April 23, 2013A great demo of surface tension MT @NewsHour: A very cool experiment…from space
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/04/21/177949605/a-wet-towel-in-space-is-not-like-a-wet-towel-on-earth
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