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University of Florida got back to me today, will be spending the summer doing nano-research in France!

The increase in precision is a result of going around the track once and obtaining a value of 35m and then multiplying by 3 to approximate the distance traveled going around 3 times vs. going around the track 3 consecutive times and confirming the same measured value of 35m and then summing...

Summer 2014 Math and Science REU Thread Hello all, It didn't look like anyone had started a new thread for 2014 REUs so I thought I'd get one going. The purpose of this thread is to share what REUs you have applied to and which ones have sent you letters of acceptance/rejection so others can...

Hey Psychonaut, I know this is probably coming too late, but I had to answer the same question recently on homework lol. Assuming you are also using Omar's book on solid state physics, refer to page 98. Here we see that the frequency gap between the optical and acoustic modes can be defined as...