Josh received a BA in Physics from Clark University in 2009, and an MS in Physics from SUNY Albany in 2012. He currently works as a technical writer for MathWorks, where he writes documentation for MATLAB.
Introduction In this Insight, I will go over the background information for the Millennium Prize problems and briefly describe three of them. A future Insight will contain brief descriptions of the remaining four problems. In 1900, David Hilbert presented 23 of the most important open problems in mathematics at a conference of the International Congress…
In this Insight, I’ll discuss a recent experiment ([1] [2] [3]) by some Australian physicists that has brought a thought experiment into the real world [4], and in doing so has lent some ammunition to a most unlikely idea: Retrocausality: A reversal of the concept of causality, allowing effects to occur before the events that cause…
In this Insight, I’ll go over 5 common MATLAB error messages, what they mean, and how to fix them. Hopefully, after reading this post you’ll find yourself being more productive, and maybe even help your friends with their code. Most forums online where people post MATLAB questions generate quite a bit of duplicates, and PhysicsForums…
Introduction The particle in a box is a staple of entry-level quantum mechanics courses because it provides a clear contrast between classical and quantum dynamics. It is one of the few problems that can be solved exactly, without approximations. I suspect most readers solved only the 1-D particle-in-a-box in class and did not explore the…