In lecture I did three reactions that are going to be similar to the kind of thing I’ll ask you to do on the . . . → Read More: Three reactions like the FInal Exam Day project
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There is a considerable simplification in using quantities of mass, energy and momentum once relativity is taken into account. Really. You’ll see that by being . . . → Read More: Memo #4: energy units ROUNDY INTERVIEWS PROFESSOR DIRAC An Enjoyable Time Is Had By All By Roundy I been hearing about a fellow they have up at the U. . . . → Read More: Hilarious interview with Paul Dirac from the University of Wisconsin newspaper, April 1929 What’s an “Atom Smasher”? You’ve all heard that (old-timey) phrase, “atom smasher” – I know that it’s been a part of American slang since . . . → Read More: Memo #3 Accelerators, Luminosity, and Cross Sections We’re about to reach a milestone in ISP220: we’ve pretty much finished the preparatory physics part of the course (I’ll make one last detour . . . → Read More: Memo #2: The Road from Here What’s True? Hobson makes some difficult points well in Chapter 1, section 8. “Pseudoscience” is a professional concern in science with all science societies putting . . . → Read More: Memo #1: Scientific Theories This is the blog-slash-website for ISP220, Quarks, Spacetime, and the Big Bang. Rummage around and you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly. Everything you . . . → Read More: Welcome to ISP220 The picture on the home page is an aerial shot of Geneva, Switzerland with Lake Geneva in the middle ground, the Swiss Alps in the . . . → Read More: what is that? Just heard from a retired friend of mine: Two physicists are discussing whether there is an afterlife and they agree that should one of them . . . → Read More: a physics joke |
   
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