Take Home Lab: Physics On the Web
Much of physics today is done via the web, from publishing papers to commenting on one's own blog about other work. Indeed, the web itself was born from within the physics community. And a site first developed for physics preprints served as a "precipating factor" in the revolution of scientific publishing.
Your assignment is to email me the following:
- Links to 3 of your favorite Youtube videos (or other generally available video website) demonstrating some physics concept we learn in this class or which you want to study in this class. Please no links to in inappropriate videos. For example, the APS ran a contest for "toy box physics". Or this one on momentum conservation. For each link, tell me which physics concept is demonstrated (just a couple words, nothing extended).
- Links to the 3 most interesting physics preprints addressing interdisciplinary physics topics (ie. biophysics, chemical physics, medical physics, etc).
No links to junk science, so safest to stick to Spires or the arXiv.
- Links to 3 job advertisements which require some physics background of its applicants, but are not for a strictly physics job. Something like this one for a radiation therapy physicist.
- A link to the best blog entry describing a physics concept we'll study this semester. For example, one can search blogs on Google, e.g. here.
- Where are your tax dollars going? Find the single most interesting National Science Foundation award dealing with any aspect of physics (multidisciplinary or not). For example, lots of black hole awards.
Last updated October 20, 2009.
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