Recent content by accelerandom

Ah, now I remember reading about the Bedford experiment and atmospheric refraction a few years ago... annoying that that probably makes the Bremerton ferry watching unfeasible. I will work with my student to plan some kind of project that will probably involve Skyping or otherwise communicating...

Thanks, everyone, for the responses. It seems like actual experiments may be mostly impractical. We are in the Seattle area but the sea isn't visible from the school, and the weather may make it too difficult to observe approaching ships, and I'm not sure there are enough miles of open sea for...

Hi everyone, I work at a small high school that does one-on-one teaching with students who often have some kind of attention related learning difficulty or have trouble in a large classroom. The physics and chemistry courses I have been teaching have very inadequate lab sections and we have very...

The setup using twins as the analogy is easy enough to understand... But how does the analogy continue when the Bell inequality is violated? That's the part I'd really like to read, as I haven't fully gotten to grips with that part yet.

Thanks for the information. Yes, I spoke to some of the professors, and I've sat in on several of the current quarter's electromagnetism classes. It looks interesting and fun and seems like it is the kind of "bridge" I need. Since you're familiar with the UW physics department, do you have any...

Is it worth doing this type of Masters course? I come from a chemistry background (quit a PhD years ago) and want to do a PhD in physics after a gap of several years working in unrelated fields. I don't feel I have sufficient background in physics to step immediately into a PhD program, and I...