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both balls should have same acceleration (and therefore same velocity and displacement).
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However, if there’s air drag, their acceleration depends on the radius and the mass of the ball, so not enough information is given for this case. If the balls are of the same material (same density ρρ), the larger one comes down faster than the smaller one.
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Puzzler: Rock the Boat
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/06/26/if_you_throw_a_rock_off_a_boat_does_the_water_go_up_or_down.html Good illustration of Archimedes’ principle & using extreme cases for intuition, ie dense rock
Matter, energy… knowledge: How to harness #physics’ demonic power
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030730-200-demon-no-more-physics-most-elusive-entity-gives-up-its-secret/ Keeping memories costs energy, erasure does work
Emptying memory represents energy that can perform work
#Physics in finance
http://www.nature.com/news/physics-in-finance-trading-at-the-speed-of-light-1.16872 Real estate opportunites from relativatistic arbitrage: locating exactly midway betw. market hubs
The Long Road to #Maxwell’s Equations
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/the-long-road-to-maxwells-equations Heaviside simplified the original 20 eqns. to the current 4 w. vector fields
Also, Hertz’s 2 “loop” experiments were key!
A great grave to visit.
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Should you wish to pay homage to the great physicist James Clerk Maxwell, you wouldn’t lack for locales in which to do it. There’s a memorial marker in London’s Westminster Abbey, not far from Isaac Newton’s grave. A magnificent statue was recently installed in Edinburgh, near his birthplace. Or you can pay your respects at his final resting place near Castle Douglas, in southwestern Scotland, a short distance from his beloved ancestral estate.
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You could start the clock in 1800, when physicist Alessandro Volta reported the invention of a battery, which allowed experimenters to begin working with continuous direct current. Some 20 years later,Hans Christian Ørsted obtained the first evidence of a link between electricity and magnetism, by demonstrating that the needle of a compass would move when brought close to a current-carrying wire. Soon after, André-Marie Ampère showed that two parallel current-carrying wires could be made to exhibit a mutual attraction or repulsion depending on the relative direction of the currents. And by the early 1830s, Michael Faraday had shown that just as electricity could influence the behavior of a magnet, a magnet could affect electricity, when he showed that drawing a magnet through a loop of wire could generate current.
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A major seed was planted by Faraday, who envisioned a mysterious, invisible “electrotonic state” surrounding the magnet—what we would today call a field. He posited that changes in this electrotonic state are what cause electromagnetic phenomena.
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The net result of all of this complexity is that when Maxwell’s theory made its debut, almost nobody was paying attention.
But a few people were. And one of them was Oliver Heaviside. Once described by a friend as a “first rate oddity,” Heaviside, who was raised in extreme poverty and was partially deaf, never attended university.
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Heaviside ended up reproducing a result that had already been published by another British physicist, John Henry Poynting. But he kept pushing further, and in the process of working through the complicated vector calculus, he happened upon a way to reformulate Maxwell’s score of equations into the four we use today.
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Now confident that he was generating and detecting electromagnetic waves, Lodge planned to report his astounding results at a meeting of the British Association, right after he returned from a vacation in the Alps. But while reading a journal on the train out of Liverpool, he discovered he’d been scooped. In the July 1888 issue of Annalen der Physik, he found an article entitled “Über elektrodynamische Wellen im Luftraum und deren Reflexion” (“On electrodynamic waves in air and their reflection”) written by a little-known German researcher, Heinrich Hertz.
Hertz’s … noticed that something curious happened when he discharged a capacitor through a loop of wire. An identical loop a short distance away developed arcs across its unconnected terminals. Hertz recognized that the sparks in the unconnected loop were caused by the reception of electromagnetic waves that had been generated by the loop with the discharging capacitor.
Inspired, Hertz used sparks in such loops to detect unseen
radio-frequency waves. He went on to conduct experiments to verify that electromagnetic waves exhibit lightlike behaviors of reflection, refraction, diffraction, and polarization.
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Dear Alumni,
I am delighted to announce the release of the first-ever Harvard University Department of Physics newsletter.
Whether you are near or far, we hope that this publication virtually brings you back to campus….
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https://www.physics.harvard.edu/uploads/files/Newsletter_Fall_2014.pdf
Volcano sends a #shockwave…through the sky http://www.nerdist.com/2014/09/couple-films-a-volcanos-shockwave-smashing-into-the-sky Gives feel for light-v-sound speeds HT @Sci_Phile pic.twitter.com/IsDpfOmdbT
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
Can 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
Reinventing #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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