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berkeman reacted to Steve4Physics's post in the thread Questions about a parallel plate capacitor apparatus for lab experiments with
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@DDesulgon, you might find the following link useful - it describes an experiment with the sort of capacitor similar to the one you... -
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Alas no, my familiarity with the literature of comets is too meager to offer suggestions. Yes, exactly as is explained in the last... -
berkeman replied to the thread Undergrad Can nested solenoids trap particles?.Interesting. But are folks still looking at it? It seems like the references are a bit old with no new work being done on it. -
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I think what you are talking about is similar to the field reversed configuration, which is being studied as a possible path to... -
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In principle, we could completely ignore statistical mechanics and thermal energy, and explain everything as you would like, in terms of... -
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Your second citation reports detecting methanol (##\text{CH}_{3}\text{OH}##) in the coma of comet 3I/Atlas via spectral measurements at... -
berkeman replied to the thread Undergrad Questions about bubble behaviour.I was going to ask about that; thanks for clarifying. :wink: -
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I did a Monte Carlo simulation of 100000 shuffles with drawing from the front and got a mean value of 1.514 and a simulation of 100000... -
berkeman replied to the thread Physics How hard is it to get a job in the semiconducter industry?.Since you live fairly close to Taiwan and are interested in semiconductors, have you looked at the very large company TSMC in Taiwan? I... -
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I am an RPI grad (class of 1991), physics major. While the academics are quite demanding and the city is a pit of despair (the book...


