How Math Explains the World.pdf
3 All Things Great and Small Glamour vs. Meat and Potatoes The theory of relativity is probably the most glamorous result of twe ...
mechanics, including Einstein, but there was no previous Isaac Newton in this branch of physics to be knocked off his or her ped ...
Richard Arens My first teaching job took me to UCLA in the fall of 1967, a few years after the release of the film Mary Poppins. ...
is more important to have the correct answer later than an incorrect answer now. I’d like to give the same advice to readers of ...
would be to consider the speed of a car—it should be able to travel at all velocities up to its theoretical limit. If a car cann ...
f led the country. Many others reacted with abhorrence to the Nazi re- gime, and also departed. Planck, although deploring the N ...
We know the characteristics of substances, but what are some of the characteristics of waves? Not all waves behave similarly. So ...
the waves spread out in concentric circles around each opening, but the waves from each opening interact (the technical term is ...
electrons had the same energy. Lenard also showed that the energy of the emitted electrons depended upon the color of the incide ...
wrote a very short dissertation in which he put forth the novel idea that matter could also have wavelike qualities. The core of ...
base coaching box (or the third-base coaching box, it doesn’t matter). A coach can always tell when a runner has run past him—or ...
“collapses” the wave function, so that it can no longer be everywhere, and is instead somewhere in particular. The observation a ...
observation in the physical universe, and when does it take place? A widely held view in the physics community is that an observ ...
Quantum Erasers The idea that photons and electrons are probability waves until they are observed, when they become objects, has ...
include my efforts to put things together in their calculations (I was only four years old at the time), and so I think I’ll lea ...
the two theories were later shown to be equivalent, generating the same results using different ideas. In 1927, Heisenberg was t ...
product of the uncertainties of two related variables, called conjugate vari- ables, must be greater than some predetermined set ...
struggling with this question. The answer we found previously, that they are probability waves until they are observed, and thin ...
we already know that if they were asked the same question, they re- sponded identically). There are nine different ways the poll ...
question, he or she could answer identically. The solution was simple— prevent the spouses from communicating with each other. T ...
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