The Rice Gallery is a unique museum located on the campus at Rice University that is dedicated to site-specific installation art. Their current exhibit, Unwoven Light, was created by Soo Sunny Park. It consists of chain link fence welded into…
When you pluck a stretched string it vibrates. If your eyes were fast enough, you could see that the vibrations are actually waves travelling back and forth along the string. Of all the world’s waves, the ones that wiggle strings…
This summer Rice became home to the Twilight Epiphany Skyspace, an installation by artist James Turrell. A skyspace is a room with an opening in the ceiling that allows you to observe a section of the sky. Rice’s skyspace is…
My course web site for PHYS 201 WAVES AND OPTICS has all of the notes available online in powerpoint and pdf format. I do this for the students, but I leave the notes up all year in case anyone out…
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 was quite a day in physics! The two big experimental groups at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced that they are pretty sure they have found the Higgs boson, the final missing piece of the Standard Model…
I think my feelings would be best expressed by an editorial in ACS Nano: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/nn3025755
In Physics we take units seriously. When we meaure something in an experiment, such as a length, a mass, or a time interval, the unit defines the size of the result and lets us compare it to other experiments. Units…
I forgot that I made an educational web page way back when the web was new. In grad school we figured out a way to put individual carbon nanotubes onto sharpened wires and AFM tips (sorry for the jargon). Other…
Hello world! I launched this e-book and blog in mid May, when the last thing undergraduates would think about is physics. Hopefully the book will be ready to go in late August, when undergraduates still are not thinking about physics,…
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