Physics

This is a temporary index page for my physics directories. This list and pair of directories are still under construction but soon there will be actual physics papers and links within this directory as well as the links to the UCB Physics items below. For now here are a few links to off-site resources and interesting things.

General Interest Physics Pages

• soon...

Simple Ideas Inspired By Colloquia, Lectures, Discussions, Etc.

When I attend lectures such as physics colloquia and such one "sport" I try to play is to think of novel, but workable, ideas about the subject material presented. I seem to have a fairly decent "hit rate" in this sport but very few of the ideas actually make it onto a record of any sort (probably just lazy). Here is a very small selection of ideas from the past. I'm going to try to write up more of them for posting.

Be warned though, they are mostly in an unfinished state.

• The Death Star: A How To is a fanciful "how to" on building the Death Star's planet busting ray gun.
• Neutrino Telescope is an idea for an ultra-low energy neutrino detector inspired by a lecture given by M. Koshiba. It won't work but researching it it was a fun ride.
• W-Fiber are some thoughts on losses in a special type of optical fiber (called "W"-Fiber).
• Thoughts about Io
• Water Cannon is an idea for a long range water projector. It was inspired by a discussion with Prof. Muller because he was trying to think of a way to use the engine power of a nuclear submarine to get water from the bay to the hills to fight fires.

UC Berkeley Physics Pages

• My work with the Holzapfel Group at U.C. Berkeley.
• UCB Physics Department machine shop featuring import protocols for CAD drawings.
• My Physics 111 projects.

General Interest Physics Links

Right now these links are in need of adding, updating, sorting, and ordering...

• 010307: Adrian Thompson's Hardware Evolution Page has some very interesting information on the experements he conducted in "breeding" electronic circuits using evolutionary methods. There are many references and links on his page.
• NASA's SkyView Virtual Observatory on the Net. This site generates images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray. Very useful for research.
• NASA's Liftoff site has Earthbound satellite tracking pages where the positions of many of the clutter of artificial satellites may be predicted and plotted.
• The Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Principle of Equivalence Measurement (PoEM). This is an experiment being constructed to test the limits of the principle of equivalence found in the theory of General Relativity. They are using a Laboratory for Science Model 220 Ultra-Stable Laser which I built way back in 1989. It's hard to believe there are no He-Ne lasers of similar performance available today.
• An amusing Discover article written about science cranks.

Physics Reference

Some local science and engineering reference materails (stolen from elsewhere).

• allochrt.pdf United States Frequency Allocations
• astrorpp.pdf2. Astrophysical Constants
• constants.html Physical Constants
• cosmicrayrpp.pdf 20. Cosmic Rays
• elecrelarpp.pdf 7. Electromagnetic Relations
• gravrpp.pdf 14. Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theory
• microwaverpp.pdf 19. Cosmic Background Radiation
• periodicrpp.pdf Periodic Table of The Elements
• pocketrpp.pdf 15. The Pocket Cosmology
• transmissonline.html Transmisson Line Parameters
• unitsmetricrpp.pdf 3. International System of Units (SI)

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Page last modified Saturday, July 16, 2005 12:09 AM