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New surprises in quantum physics
Scenta: A French team of physicists have recently succeeded in trapping a single photon in a box on the time scale of seconds and have detected this photon many times without destroying it.
Physics Misconceptions in Cartoon Form!
Unfortunately, he hasn’t taken physics into account, and all his dreams come to naught. What Dr. North (and yes, it’sa real Ph.D.) hasn’t mentioned explicitly is that this is a sneaky reformulation of the Airplane on a Treadmill problem ...
Orgo and physics and math, oh my
The logical follow-up to Physics I: Mechanics, I like to think of 8.022 as 8.012's little cousin. So far it's been much more math-based than 8.012 was, which suits me just fine. We've raced through the first three chapters of our ...
The N-vortex problem on a symmetric ellipsoid: A perturbation approach
Cesar Castilho and Helio Machado We consider the N-vortex problem on an ellipsoid of revolution. Applying standard techniques of classical perturbation theory, we construct a sequence of conformal transformations from the ellipsoid into ...
Dimensional reduction for generalized Poisson brackets
Ciprian Sorin Acatrinei We discuss dimensional reduction for Hamiltonian systems which possess nonconstant Poisson brackets between pairs of coordinates and between pairs of momenta. The associated Jacobi identities imply that the ...
Oscillator-Morse--Coulomb mappings and algebras for constant or ...
C. Quesne The bound-state solutions and the su(1,1) description of the d-dimensional radial harmonic oscillator, the Morse, and the D-dimensional radial Coulomb Schrodinger equations are reviewed in a unified way using the point ...
Magnetoelectric nano-Fe[sub 3]O[sub 4]/CoFe[sub 2]O[sub 4] || PbZr ...
Shenqiang Ren and Manfred Wuttig A new magnetoelectric hybrid device composed of a nanoparticulate magnetostrictive iron oxide-cobalt ferrite film on a piezoelectric lead zirconic titanate crystal serving as both substrate and straining ...
PHYSICS: Condensed Matter Seminar - PROFESSOR KATHRYN MOLLER ...
Sr_2RuO_4 is widely believed to be a chiral superconductor with an order parameter of the form p_x+ip_y. This order parameter is interesting both in itself and because of its potential for topologically protected quantum computation. ...
Revamping Intro Physics Laboratory - Part 2
Keep in mind that MOST students in such courses are NOT physics majors. In fact, for many, these are the only physics courses they'll ever take. So I see it as the best opportunity to introduce to the students how physics actually work. ...
I thought physics couldn’t get worse…
So this Quantum Physics class I am taking has been the bane of my existence this semester. Physics is not really my thing. The other class this reminds me of is when I took Chemistry, that was also a horrendous subject (but I am ...