It was good timing (on my part) to put up pictures of an apparatus involved in the measurement of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) in our...
Interesting. We roughly had half of the answers submitted being wrong. Last time I asked the following: ... to ... spring ... which ... set ... can ... the ......
This week's vexer is challenging, but once you figure out the solution, the explanation is rather straight-forward. One of the things I like the most about...
This was reported about a year ago, and the lead author of the study has written an essay in the May issue of Physics Today. It shows how bad the physics texts...
OK. Just to show you that you get very timely reporting on here regarding the "hot" news in physics, I reported these two experimental results on April 22nd....
Today is the 1 year anniversary of our Undernetphysics Yahoo Group! (and they say it will never last!) Thanks to all those who were here from Day 1, and all...
A quick glance at one of the on-going polls that we have here shows that we have a considerable population of high-school students that is a part of our...
As a followup to this earlier posting on here, there is a good review iin this month's issue of Physics World on the development of the theory and experimental...
Hi there, with this posting I want to start a column on some of the legacys that exist in physics. This column originally is from Professor Hermann in ...
OK, I didn't know that May 10th is Astronomy Day. Who designated all these things? In any case, Nature is "celebrating" Astronomy Day with a special Nature...
As expected, a number of people found the vexer to be more "challenging" than usual. Although the setup for the vexer was rather involved, the answer was...
This vexer may require a meticulous "accounting" the same way the "Census Taker" vexer was several weeks ago. On the table are 11 matches. The first player...
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has just released the statistics on first year physics graduate students in US universities. You may read the link to...
Artefact: The definition of 'heat' Defects: In different books the notion of 'heat' is defined in zillions of ways, which is correct? Are they equivalent? And...
Hey nemor, There is also an additional history to "heat". Clausius and his contemporaries had to refute an even earlier claim that heat consists of a fluid...
There certainly does seem to be a continuing legacy with this one... Unlike temperature (an intrinsic thermodynamic variable - that which measures a local...
A new set of resources about one of our favorite physicist opened today at 3 PM EST. There are over 600 published and unpublished works by Einstein as well as...
Continuing with our countdown of the most cited papers in Physical Review Letters as reported in the APS News [check old messages for previous papers], this...
Ok, it took longer than I thought to go through all the answers for the last vexer, but I've finally done it. ... goes ... LAST ... I think there were a few of...
Oops.. This is the 2nd posting of this vexer. I didn't finish it yet before I hit "Send". :) OK, this one is a doozy. I probably do not need to see the whole ...
I get asked all the time, especially on our IRC channel, what I actually do. Somehow, they don't buy it when I tell them that I am a janitor! :) Most long-time...
Lund University has compiled a list of journals that gives free access to the public. The url to this site can be found in the Links section of our website...
We have a large contingent of members from the UK, and Scotland in particular, both here and on our Undernet #physics IRC channel. I know a few of them are...
Im sorry if this is a re-run, but unfortunetly I havent been able to read many of the postings to this group for the past 3-4 months. Anyway here is my...
... to ... The most common online site for physics-based jobs is the AIP (American Institute of Physics) website. You may look at their job listing at ...
The last vexer was certainly a challenging one. Although a couple of people did pointed out the area of physics that this question would be applicable to, no...
This week's vexer is quite straightforward, but maybe the answer isn't. You have two identical insulating, open-topped containers. One is filled with cool...
A member in here (looks at Tom) made an excellent proposal in another yahoo group (which shall remain nameless) about starting a Journal Club. Since summer...
I am definitely in support of it. I think a journal club would foster better understanding of undergraduate level physics, some topics that sometimes may not...
Hi I'm new here but that definitely sounds like a good idea! :) Only thing is i don't have summer break, infact it's the middle of winter here down in New...
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