Sat, 13 Sep 2003The Physics of television http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/trobinso/physicspages/POpart2/po2002/TV/emw.html -- Some pictures of how an electromagnetic wave generates a current in a wire loop (a.k.a. antenna). Posted at 23:25 #
Fri, 7 Mar 2003Walter Fendt's DC motor animation http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/electricmotor.htm -- Javascript-based animation showing forces on a rotating loop of wire with a constant current. Posted at 10:07 #
Wed, 26 Feb 2003Maxwell's equations and EM waves http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Maxwell_Eq.html -- Exposition by Michael Fowler at UVa Posted at 14:14 #
Fri, 31 Jan 2003Physics of thunderstorms http://maxwell.physics.mun.ca/MPL/Physics2054/lectures2054/lecture14.pdf -- There is usually an atmospheric electric potential gradient of 100 V/m, but this can rise by orders of magnitude beneath a thunderstorm. (Here's Google's cached HTML version of the page above).
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Tue, 28 Jan 2003Relativity, in words of four letters or less http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html -- Posted at 12:57 #
Protein folding and energy landscapes http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~steve/reviewpt1.pdf -- Review article "Understanding protein folding with energy landscape theory", Plotkin and Onuchik. Posted at 09:48 #
Thu, 16 Jan 2003online integrals -- the "Integrator" http://integrals.wolfram.com/ -- ...uses Mathematica to integrate any expression you can type in with their syntax.
Functions must be capitalized, and function arguments enclosed in square brackets, i.e. Sin[x^2] and not sin(x^2). Posted at 22:47 #
Tue, 31 Dec 2002Francis Bacon and the goal of science http://www.univie.ac.at/science-archives/fulda/feld_4/bacon.html -- In a german essay on "Anxiety about scientific progress", Erhard Oeser points out that Bacon believed that the goal of science was to increase and broaden Man's power. Bacon appears to have taken this literally, as he lost his position as Lord Chancellor, among other things, because of gifts he received from those applying for patents and licenses. Posted at 11:17 #
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