Special topics lecture next tuesday
On Tuesday 28 April, we have a "special topics" lecture scheduled. If you can suggest anything - related to the ph102 material, at least tangentially - that you might be interested in hearing about, let me know before the end of the weekend.
If there are several topics I think I can work up on short notice, I'll pick the one I think has the most broad appeal. If no one suggests anything, I will talk about what it is I do.
Other possibilities:
- how does MRI/PET/CAT work?
- how does your iPod work? (related to what I do)
- more bad movie physics
- how do semiconductor devices (transistors/flash/whatever) work?
- length scales, from nuclei to galaxies
- something you think I did a poor job explaining the first time around :-)
And no, it won't be on the final. This one is supposed to be purely curiosity-driven, "for fun."
3 comments:
bad movie physics sounds pretty entertaining
I think so ... and so do some other people:
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/
A couple of people at U. Central Fla. have done some neat (published) work with this.
http://www.physorg.com/news106397085.html
http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1167v1
One of my favorites is "The Core." One hardly knows where to begin.
Ditto on bad movie physics
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